AP NOS News†today, 10:00 Home buyers have more choice now that more homes are coming up for sale. Yet they still regularly offer half a ton more than the asking price to acquire a house, according to figures that the NOS requested from real estate association NVM and data company Brainbay. At the end of…
AP NOS News†today, 07:07 Food is increasing in price faster and faster. In June, foodstuffs were 11.2 percent more expensive than a year earlier. In May that was still 9.1 percent, reports the Central Bureau of Statistics. Since September last year, food prices have been rising faster every month. Dairy and meat in particular became…
AP NOS News†yesterday, 20:58 The Surinamese airline Surinam Airways, also known as the Surinamese Aviation Company (SLM), is canceling a series of return flights to Amsterdam this month. It concerns seven outward and return flights that were planned between 8 and 17 July. Several Surinamese media report this, including Dagblad Suriname. The airline says the…
AP NOS News†today, 17:02 The share of Just Eat-Takeaway, the parent company of Thuisbezorgd, has skyrocketed on the Amsterdam stock exchange after the news that Amazon is taking an interest in the American subsidiary Grubhub. Investors have been dissatisfied with the state of affairs at the Dutch delivery group for months. The fact that Amazon…
AP NOS News†today, 09:39 Due to the staff shortage, employers are approaching more and more employees from other companies with the question whether they want to come and work for them. According to the consultancy Intelligence Group, almost 38 percent of the working population said they were asked by an employer last quarter whether they…
AP NOS News†today, 00:00 Of every euro earned last year, 74.9 cents went to the wages of employees and the self-employed. That is less than the year before. In the first corona year 2020, 77 cents of every euro earned went to employees and the self-employed. This is apparent from figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS)…
AP NOS News†today, 21:10†Amended today, 22:01 In the short term, the cabinet will enter into talks with the municipalities about doing something extra this year for the purchasing power of people with a low income. Prime Minister Rutte said in the House of Representatives that on top of the 800 euros they can already get…
Sander Koning, ANP NOS News†today, 12:36 The government will set up a mandatory certification system for employment agencies, which is expected to come into effect in 2025. It should lead to better protection for labor migrants in the Netherlands. This is what Minister Van Gennip of Social Affairs and Employment writes to the House of…
AP NOS News†Sunday, 16:23 Chairman Ingrid Thijssen of employers’ organization VNO-NCW believes that government policy is pushing companies over the border. In an opinion piece in NRC, she writes that companies are “running away from the Netherlands” and that rapid intervention by the government is necessary. According to Thijssen, the Netherlands is no longer a…
NOS NOS News†yesterday, 06:28 Almost all major festivals will stop using disposable cups in the near future. Instead, festival-goers have to hand in their used cup in order to buy a new drink. The cups are taken to a recycling plant at the end of the festival or washed and reused. The largest festival organizer…