{"id":971,"date":"2020-07-30T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/nederland-leert-door\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:33:50","slug":"the-netherlands-is-learning-from-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/nederland-leert-door\/","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands is learning as it goes along"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you applied for, or are you planning to apply for, NOW 2? If so, as an employer, you are obliged (on a best-efforts basis) to encourage your employees to undertake further training or retraining. The government can support you in this.<\/p>\n

\u20ac50 million available<\/strong><\/h4>\n

As an employer, you can use any time that may have become available due to the coronavirus pandemic to focus on your training policy. To support this, the government is offering various options for career development advice and (online) further training and reskilling. \u20ac50 million has been made available for this purpose. The aim of this scheme is to support people in their professional development so that, for example, in the event of redundancy, they have better chances of finding alternative employment. It can also help to retrain employees so that they are more employable within your organisation.<\/p>\n

Free development advice<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The government offers various ways to apply for career development advice. This is available not only to your employees but also to self-employed people and jobseekers. As part of your duty of care as an employer, you can also make use of career guidance and retraining and further training opportunities in the event that, regrettably, employees have to be made redundant. These employees can then also benefit from the schemes and improve their prospects on the labour market.<\/p>\n

The various schemes:<\/p>\n