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Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

Government ministry of the Netherlands

Summary

Government ministry of the Netherlands

Field	Value
agency_name	Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
type	Department
nativename	Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid
logo	Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid Logo.png
logo_caption	Ministry logo
picture	Den Haag - De Resident (28056663929).jpg
picture_caption	Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
formed
jurisdiction	Kingdom of the Netherlands
headquarters	Anna van Hannoverstraat 4, The Hague, Netherlands
budget	€81.8 billion (2018)
minister1_name	Mariëlle Paul
minister1_pfo	Minister of Social Affairs and Employment
deputyminister1_name	Jurgen Nobel
deputyminister1_pfo	State Secretary for Participation and Integration
website	Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (; SZW) is the Dutch ministry responsible for social affairs, relations between employers and employees, social security, trade unions and emancipation. It was established in 1918 as the Ministry of Labour and had several name changes before it became the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment in 1981. The ministry is headed by the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, currently Mariëlle Paul of People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.

Responsibilities

The ministry is responsible for five fields of policy:

Employment and the labour market
Social security
Income-policy
Relations between employers and employees
Occupational safety and health

Organisation

The ministry is currently headed by one minister and one state secretary. The ministry's main office is located in The Hague. The civil service is headed by a secretary general (currently Loes Mulder) and a vice-secretary general, who head a system of three general directorates:

Relations between employers and employees and international affairs
Occupational safety and Health and social insurances
Labour market policy and social welfare Furthermore, there is an inspector general responsible for the inspection of employment and income, who supervises the local centres for employment and income.

Mobility centres

Beginning in 2006, the Ministry established a network of mobility centres whose function is to coordinate the multiple companies of any given industry to facilitate the movement of employees between companies. This is seen as an alternative to forced lay-offs.

History

The ministry was founded in 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Before that the limited social policy had been the responsibility of the ministry of Economic Affairs. After the Second World War the ministry became much more important, as the Netherlands transformed into a welfare state.

In 1982 the responsibility for labour market policy was transferred to the ministry from the ministry of Economic Affairs in order to enlarge the portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister Joop den Uyl. Emancipation also became a responsibility of the ministry.

References

{{in lang. nl [https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/prinsjesdag/miljoenennota-en-rijksbegroting]

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