Overview
- Employers across Gelderland and Brabant say operations would stall without Eastern European workers, a view echoed by the SER’s finding that migrants are needed to plug labor gaps.
- Tiel alderman Remco Dijkstra calls on The Hague to finance extra staff for stricter action against abusive agencies and to tackle nuisance and poor housing tied to seasonal flows.
- Tiel estimates about 3,000 labor migrants in a city of 42,000 and is setting up a transition house with major employment agencies for workers who lose their jobs.
- Official counts are incomplete because many short‑term and seasonal workers do not register, leaving municipalities with limited visibility into the true scale.
- Kieskompas polling shows roughly a third believe there are too many labor migrants and one in five report nuisance, while a slim majority deem them economically important as parties advance differing proposals constrained by EU free‑movement rights outlined by legal scholar Tesseltje de Lange.