Dutch MP Thierry Aartsen ( VVD ) talk over the effect of labor migration in an feeling spell published in a Dutch newspaper publisher . He advocates less and different labor migration , focusing on highly productive labor migrant , innovation , and added value . Moreover , he see that labor migration should be less of a " loading " on society .
The slice was widely pick up in the media , and is also of stake to the gardening sphere , which is still heavy dependent on labor migrants
Is robotization advanced enough?The piece show that party VVD wants to limit labor migration and that the Dutch political party is send to initiation and robotization . On NPO Radio 1 , Professor Ton Wildhagen of Tilburg University , critically point out on the plan on Monday afternoon . According to him , the VVD ’s imagination on labor migration offers no alternative for migratory workers in horticulture and butchery , which are still heavily pendant on these doer .
concord to Wildhagen , the VVD adopt that robots and AI are a solution . He finds that robots and AI on labor currently have a limited effect on productiveness . He even see that task productivity is declining in the Netherlands . In the short terminal figure , golem do not yet offer a solution , according to the prof . Therefore , check migrant labor would be the alternative . According to him , the VVD does not really choose . Scarcity is choosing , he argues . He means that it could be decided that sure sectors have no future in the Netherlands .
( The radio sherd is availablehere , from minute 47 onwards )
measure to curb proletariat migration could make the Netherlands less competitive . That was revealed last hebdomad by a survey print ineconomics journal ESB . " Half of all companies in the Netherlands employ at least one alien worker , " Professor of Innovation Henk Volberda of the University of Amsterdam toldBNR .
More expensive migrant workers?LTO Nederland(the Netherlands Agricultural and Horticultural Association ) also responded to the bit , saying it is in favour of robotization and automation . " We urge the console to heavily vest in these theatre of operations . exacerbating employer charges in agrarian sector without any choice must be avoided because it is no solution . " LTO also calls on the cabinet to plow other negative effects on labor migration . allot to LTO , trapping labor migrants at farming businesses can make an significant contribution to reduce occupancy trouble .
According to LTO , the VVD vision document implies that the premium that employers pay on the wages of Labour migrant may eventually increase , form it more expensive to employ them . " In a sphere where garner content is under grave pressure and Labor Department dearth are the order of the day , that would be the wrong solution . The government should gift in actual resolution by increasing the step of innovation and making technological investments profitable . This is how we invest in future - validation and competitive agriculture and horticulture . "
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