Research: flex law leads to massive layoffs | Financial

‘The low-skilled and women have a hard time’

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Amersfoort – Making temporary work more expensive has meant that the contracts of flex workers have been canceled en masse without them being given a permanent contract afterwards. At least 77,000 flex workers have been laid off and partly replaced by self-employed persons since the introduction of the Balanced Labor Market Act (WAB), Sector Research at ABN Amro has calculated. Women, young people and the low-skilled have been hit particularly hard.