Less than one in three employees in service check companies has workable work
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Only 30.2 percent of employees in the service check companies have workable work. This is according to a study by the Social and Economic Council of Flanders (SERV), a consultation and advisory body of trade unions and employers.
Source: Belga
Today at 3:04 PM
The study shows that it is generally going in the right direction with the quality of jobs in Flanders. More than half (51.8 percent) of the Flemish employees do not have any workability bottlenecks, according to the 2023 measurement. Behind that global figure are considerable differences between sectors.
In the service check sector, the work appears to be considerably less often workable. For learning opportunities, for example, those companies are doing remarkably bad, says the SERV. The share of employees with insufficient learning opportunities (51.7 percent) is much higher than the average in Flanders (13.6 percent).
Motivation problems are also much more common: 37.8 percent at service voucher companies compared to 18.8 percent in the entire Flemish labor market. The sector also has an almost double as high absenteeism as the rest of Flanders.
The work-life balance (10.6 percent) corresponds to the Flemish average of 12.9 percent. This includes the comment that only one in four (27.2 percent) of the service check workers works full -time compared to two thirds (67.9 percent) in the entire Flemish labor market.
In the sector, trade unions and employers have been negotiating a better remuneration for the household helpers for months. Consultation is planned again on 20 May.
