Introduction
According to the European Agency for Safety & health at Work (2002) workers with temporary contracts comprised up to 15% of employees in Europe. Dutch statistics (Souren 2009) suggest that the number of temporary workers has been on the increase, being around 8% of the working population in 2008. For 2013 the picture presented by the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS 2014) is that despite declines in permanent contracts since the economic crisis the number of employees with flexible contracts and self-employment has increased.
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