Most flexible migrant workers in the Netherlands come from Poland

Dutch staffing agencies are using more low skilled Polish workers and giving them longer contracts than they used to, according to temporary employment agency association ABU.
Thu, 4 Dec 2014Dutch staffing agencies are using more low skilled Polish workers and giving them longer contracts than they used to, according to temporary employment agency association ABU.

As reported by publication Dutch News, ABU said in the 12 months to July 2014, almost 90,000 flexible working migrants worked in the Netherlands and 88% of them were Polish nationals.

Foreign nationals account for 13% of the jobs through staffing agencies in the Netherlands. Most work in logistics, farming and the food industry.

There are also substantial numbers of Germans, Czechs, Slovaks and Lithuanians working in the Netherlands through staffing agencies.

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