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A Japanese study of 158 employed patients who underwent surgery for gastric or esophageal cancer found that 78.5% were working at 18 months post-surgery, with median return-to-work times of 30 days for gastric cancer and 70 days for esophageal cancer. The research identifies pain, appetite loss, financial impact, and weight loss at 6 months as significant barriers to sustained work participation, with implications for workplace accommodations and occupational health support.
Unemployment in the Netherlands is just 3.7%, yet hundreds of thousands of working-age adults rely on disability, sickness and social assistance benefits — and reforms since 2006 have cut inflow without solving the low employment of people on the partial-disability (WGA) benefit.
Imagine waking up on the first morning of retirement after decades of dedicated service, expecting to embrace freedom, travel, grandchildren, and the long-awaited peace that accompanies the end of a...
Sep 17, 2026 _The Department for Work and Pensions has published a Rapid Evidence Assessment on how employers can be supported to recruit disabled people and people with health conditions, according...
Beyond the official unemployment rate, millions more Europeans are outside the labour market. In 2024, Eurostat counted 13.1 million unemployed people in the EU, plus 6.2 million who were available to work but not looking, and 8.0 million young people aged 15–29 who were not in employment, education or training.
IPS has the strongest evidence base of any employment intervention for people with severe mental illness: 28 randomised controlled trials, with meta-analyses finding that people in IPS are about twice as likely to get a competitive job as those in traditional vocational rehabilitation. Trials in Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark show it also works in generous welfare states. Yet European implementation remains uneven.
Employer behaviour is the missing link in disability employment policy. Field experiments show that employers respond less often to applicants who disclose a disability, even when the disability should not affect the job. Fixing this requires understanding what employers actually fear.
NOS Nieuws vandaag, 19:16 Aangepast vandaag, 19:39 De Verenigde Staten hebben [opnieuw](https://nos.nl/artikel/2631854-regering-trump-heeft-plannen-klaar-voor-sancties-tegen-internationaal-strafhof)...
NOS Nieuws gisteren, 20:37 Russische troepen hebben in Oekraïne wijdverbreid seksueel geweld gebruikt tegen burgers en krijgsgevangenen.
NOS Nieuws vandaag, 09:28 Aangepast vandaag, 11:55 De Europese Unie zal snel onafhankelijk moeten worden en zelf voor de veiligheid moeten zorgen.
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NOS Nieuws vandaag, 18:05 De Raad van State heeft geen grote bezwaren tegen de plannen van het kabinet over Schiphol.
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