Six baggage handling companies at Schiphol will be fined by the Labor Inspectorate if they do not meet the requirements to relieve staff. The inspection promised companies an order subject to periodic penalty payments. If they do nothing, the coercive fine will be effective in fifteen days. The fines differ by company, the highest being 65,000 euros per month.
In March, the Inspectorate determined that baggage handlers at Schiphol must immediately use lifting aids for employees who lift heavy objects. In all airport companies that deal with passenger luggage “insufficient measures are being taken to reduce physical effort,” the Labor Inspectorate wrote at the time.
Also on the platforms, where the planes are loaded, very little use of resources was made. “The inspectors verified that the aids to lift the luggage were not there and, if there were, they were not used,” reports the labor inspectorate, which affirms that physical effort “presents a danger to the health and safety of workers.”
The inspection now plans to fine the companies. Baggage handlers have been informed of this and can object within 15 days. The Labor Inspectorate has also previously informed companies that a situation could arise where Schiphol and the handlers blame each other and, in general, “very little improvement occurs for employees and law enforcement aims to prevent this.”
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