The Dutch journalists trade union (NVJ) are celebrating what it claims is a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d for freelance reporters\u2019 and photographers\u2019 pay in a deal reached with the largest publishing house in the Netherlands, DPG Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If agreed by NVJ members, it marks the end of a three-year campaign, backed by NUJ Netherlands, to establish a reasonable rate of remuneration for freelancers in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Journalism has a price campaign saw a rare national one-day strike<\/a> and rally of freelancers and two legal test cases brought by four NVJ members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The deal may have huge implications for all media freelancers working in the Netherlands and will be discussed at our branch meeting on 29 June. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Under the deal<\/a> freelancers working for DPG, which owns national and regional newspapers and magazines will, from I July, be paid 167% of the collective labour agreements for staffers. The extra 67 per cent is to compensate for all the additional costs that a freelancer incurs, such as disability insurance, material costs and pension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It amounts to a minimum of \u20ac30 a week for people starting in the profession which increases with experience. For photographers it amounts to a rise of 20%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The deal is seen by the NVJ as a breakthrough as it offers a fair rate of remuneration plus a structural indexing with staff rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If agreed then the legal challenges against DPG brought by four individuals, supported by the NVJ, asking for judges to establish a \u201cfair\u201d rate of pay, will be dropped. The deal will then be reviewed in a year\u2019s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NVJ freelance secretary Milen van<\/a> Boldrik<\/a> said: \u201c We have now really taken a step towards fair rates and we think this has a positive effect on the relationship between the client and the contractor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bart Verkade, business director DPG Media: \u201cFreelance journalists were and are important to all DPG Media’s daily newspapers, sites and magazines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n They key points are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Dutch journalists trade union (NVJ) are celebrating what it claims is a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d for freelance reporters\u2019 and photographers\u2019 pay in a deal reached with the largest publishing house in the Netherlands, DPG Media. If agreed by NVJ members, it marks the end of a three-year campaign, backed by NUJ Netherlands, to establish a reasonable…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}