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Om een brug te slaan tussen de wensen van jongere en oudere medewerkers werd in 2014 het Generatiepact geïntroduceerd. Oudere werknemers kunnen ervoor kiezen minder uren te werken (tegen een gedeeltelijke financiële compensatie) waardoor zij langer gezond en prettig zullen doorwerken. Tegelijkertijd kunnen jongeren daardoor instromen in de organisatie. Om inzicht te krijgen in de effecten van het Generatiepact, deden Tinka van Vuuren (Open Universiteit / Loyalis) en Klaske Veth (Hanzehogeschool Groningen) een studie bij vijf organisaties. Draagt het Generatiepact inderdaad bij aan de duurzame inzetbaarheid van de oudere en jongere medewerkers? En leidt het tot meer werk voor de jongeren?
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De Catshuisregeling voor gedupeerde ouders van de kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire stemt in het geheel niet positief. De doelstelling, een snelle genoegdoening, is voor het merendeel van de ouders buiten bereik. Ouders worden opnieuw vermalen, omdat de regeling geen rechtszekerheid biedt vanwege een gebrek aan heldere beslissingscriteria. De helft van de aanvragen is afgewezen. Met name de ouders met een complex dossier met een schade boven € 30.000 wacht een lange weg naar de Commissie Werkelijke Schade totdat hun werkelijke schade vergoed wordt. Niet duidelijk is welke schade in voldoende causaal verband staat en voor vergoeding in aanmerking komt. Daarbij hebben ouders voldoende rechtsbijstand nodig om hun zaak te onderbouwen, ook dat lijkt nu onvoldoende gewaarborgd. Het kabinet moet daarom met spoed terug naar de tekentafel.
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In reactie op de kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire kondigde het kabinet de zogeheten Catshuisregeling aan. De 26.000 gedupeerde ouders krijgen een forfaitair bedrag van 30.000 euro of, als hun schade hoger uitvalt, ook het meerdere, vergoed van de Belastingdienst. Uit onderzoek van Van de Bunt, dat wordt gepubliceerd in het Nederlands Juristenblad, blijkt dat een groot deel van de ouders opnieuw vermalen dreigt te worden door het systeem. Het kabinet moet daarom met spoed terug naar de tekentafel.
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The earthquakes after the natural gas extraction in the Groningen region of the Netherlands have a significant impact on the housing market and sustainability of the communities. Since the strongest earthquake around the community of Huizinge in August 2012, with a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale, it became clear there is a relation between natural gas extraction and earthquakes due to soil subsidence. As a consequence houses in the region get damaged and after research it is obvious that housing prices decline and the region might become unattractive to potential buyers of houses. Therefore the Dutch Petroleum Company (NAM) since April 29th 2014 offers a compensation for the loss of the housing price to property owners who want to sell their home. Since the compensation has been introduced, the number of participants of the regulation is lacking behind the actual sales of houses. Our study aims to contribute to the research on the consequences of earthquakes by natural gas mining on the real estate market in the Groningen region. First of all we want to declare why relatively a large part of the property owners (about 60% until 2015) don’t request for the compensation regulation. Our second question concerns the buyers of the (damaged) houses in the earthquake area. Who are these buyers? Why would they buy a home in a region full of risks? We use a mixed-method approach for data collection which leads to an analysis of a unique dataset on notarial deeds of house sales in nine municipalities in the Groningen earthquake region according to The Land Registry of the Netherlands during the period 2013 until 2015 as well as discovering common patterns of interview results with residents and experts.First results show the majority of the homebuyers originate from the local earthquake area in the Province of Groningen. Reasons why property sellers after the house sale don’t opt for the compensation regulation concerns the complexity of the regulation, the used valuation model and the expected long control time afterwards.We conclude the Groningen earthquake region still has it’s attractiveness for local residents and buyers. Otherwise the regulation for compensation doesn’t reach enough property sellers in the Groningen earthquake region. Advise to the Dutch government should be to generously compensate the residents of the Groningen earthquake regions for the loss of the value of their dwellings, damaged or not. This will help to improve the regional development and attractiveness of areas that are effected by earthquakes.
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De Belastingdienst heeft het overgrote deel van de 26.000 gedupeerde ouders in de Toeslagenaffaire van 2005 tot 2019 stelselmatig gediscrimineerd op grond van nationaliteit. Bij lotgenotenbijeenkomsten blijkt het merendeel van deze ouders een migratie-achtergrond te hebben. Tot op heden heeft de Belastingdienst de ouders niet gecompenseerd voor deze discriminatie.1 Aleid Wolfsen, voorzitter van de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, pleit in een blog voor een recht op smartengeld voor de gediscrimineerde ouders.2 Zo’n recht bij discriminatie door de overheid zou mogelijk de afschrikwekkende werking kunnen hebben die nodig is om een overheidsdienst ervan te doordringen dat discriminatie nooit is toegestaan – en ook naar gediscrimineerden toe een belangrijke functie hebben als erkenning en compensatie voor hun smart. Biedt het recht aanknopingspunten voor smartengeld bij discriminatie door de overheid?
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Citizen participation in local renewable energy projects is often promoted as many suppose it to be a panacea for the difficulties that are involved in the energy transition process. Quite evidently, it is not; there is a wide variety of visions, ideologies and interests related to an ‘energy transition’. Such a variety is actually a precondition for a stakeholder participation process, as stakeholder participation only makes sense if there is ‘something at stake’. Conflicting viewpoints, interests and debates are the essence of participation. The success of stakeholder participation implies that these differences are acknowledged, and discussed, and that this has created mutual understanding among stakeholders. It does not necessarily create ‘acceptance’. Renewable energy projects often give rise to local conflict. The successful implementation of local renewable energy systems depends on the support of the local social fabric. While at one hand decisions to construct wind turbines in specific regions trigger local resistance, the opposite also occurs! Solar parks sometimes create a similar variation: Various communities try to prevent the construction of solar parks in their vicinity, while other communities proudly present their parks. Altogether, local renewable energy initiatives create a rather chaotic picture, if regarded from the perspective of government planning. However, if we regard the successes, it appears the top down initiatives are most successful in areas with a weak social fabric, like industrial areas, or rather recently reclaimed land. Deeply rooted communities, virtually only have successful renewable energy projects that are more or less bottom up initiatives. This paper will first sketch why participation is important, and present a categorisation of processes and procedures that could be applied. It also sketches a number of myths and paradoxes that might occur in participation processes. ‘Compensating’ individuals and/or communities to accept wind turbines or solar parks is not sufficient to gain ‘acceptance’. A basic feature of many debates on local renewable energy projects is about ‘fairness’. The implication is that decision-making is neither on pros and cons of various renewable energy technologies as such, nor on what citizens are obliged to accept, but on a fair distribution of costs and benefits. Such discussions on fairness cannot be short cut by referring to legal rules, scientific evidence, or to standard financial compensations. History plays a role as old feelings of being disadvantaged, both at individual and at group level, might re-emerge in such debates. The paper will provide an overview of various local controversies on renewable energy initiatives in the Netherlands. It will argue that an open citizen participation process can be organized to work towards fair decisions, and that citizens should not be addressed as greedy subjects, trying to optimise their own private interests, but as responsible persons.
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Purpose The Work Assessment Triage Tool (WATT) is a clinical decision support tool developed using machine learning to help select interventions for patients with musculoskeletal disorders. The WATT categorizes patients based on individual characteristics according to likelihood of successful return to work following rehabilitation. A previous validation showed acceptable classification accuracy, but we re-examined accuracy using a new dataset drawn from the same system 2 years later. Methods A population-based cohort design was used, with data extracted from a Canadian compensation database on workers considered for rehabilitation between January 2013 and December 2016. Data were obtained on demographic, clinical, and occupational characteristics, type of rehabilitation undertaken, and return to work outcomes. Analysis included classification accuracy statistics of WATT recommendations. Results The sample included 28,919 workers (mean age 43.9 years, median duration 56 days), of whom 23,124 experienced a positive outcome within 30 days following return to work assessment. Sensitivity of the WATT for selecting successful programs was 0.13 while specificity was 0.87. Overall accuracy was 0.60 while human recommendations were higher at 0.72. Conclusions Overall accuracy of the WATT for selecting successful rehabilitation programs declined in a more recent cohort and proved less accurate than human clinical recommendations. Algorithm revision and further validation is needed.
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