News item | 08-07-2022 | 16:25
Every year, research agency Panteia produces a report on the employee base of the Sheltered Employment Act (Wsw). Today, Minister Schouten will make the 2021 report public.
At the end of 2021, there will be 67,556 people in the workforce of social work companies. Of these, 93% work for a municipality or a social work company and 7% have a supervised employment contract. Of all 67,556 employees, 36.2% is seconded, via individual secondment (17.6%) or group secondment (18.6%). The other 56.8% have an internal placement, which means that they are supervised by a social work company.
Of the number of people who work with a Wsw indication (67,556 people), the total amount of work – the realization – is expressed in the report as an average total number of working years for the entire group. In 2021, that average was 61,919 working years. When the Participation Act was introduced, the expectation for 2021 was that this number would be 3,711 employment years higher. This is because the outflow over the years has been higher than expected.
The average age of people in employment in the WSW is 51.9 years, an increase of 3.3 years compared to 2015. A logical consequence of the stop on the intake. The number of older people over the age of 45 rose from 68% to 76%. The number of young people under the age of 27 has fallen from 4% to 1%. The increase in the average age is also due to the raising of the state pension age. As the reason for outflow, the report states death, retirement or two years of illness for 81% of the cases.
The number of people with a valid Wsw indication, but without employment, the so-called ‘no placements’, increases every year. In 2021 there will be an increase of 153 people to a total of 6,095 people.