NS personnel will strike again on Friday. Employees in the North and South Netherlands regions are striking due to dissatisfaction with their wages. The NS and the unions have not yet reached an agreement on a new collective labor agreement after 4.5 months of negotiations. The railway company is sticking to its guns with a […]
The police have identified 126 Dutch users on Cracked.io, a hackers website where cybercriminals traded in leaked personal data of victims. Software was also sold that could be used to hack computers or commit bank helpdesk fraud. The site was already taken offline by Europol. In doing so, as much user data as possible was
People who purchase their own care with their personal budget are facing too many tasks, according to the Social Insurance Bank (SVB). They will soon be seen as employers, even if they have a neighbor clean the house weekly, for example. The SVB is sounding the alarm in a letter to the House of Representatives.
A group lawsuit against Airbnb must be settled in Ireland, the court in The Hague has ruled. That is a setback for the Dutch foundation that had started a collective procedure on behalf of “more than 50,000 consumers” because of alleged unjustified costs. According to the court, a Dutch judge is not competent to make
Almost a quarter of adults in the Netherlands have refrained from visiting the dentist due to the costs. People with less money say they do this more often. They also feel they have less chance of good care. People in households with less wealth more often indicate that they avoid dentist visits because of the
China and the United States said on Tuesday that they have reached agreements to get trade back on track between those countries. The limited agreement would lift some U.S. tariffs. The Chinese and American negotiating teams have reached a preliminary agreement on a trade framework after two days of consultations in London. The deal still
OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, says it has restored its main systems after an hours-long outage. However, work is still being done to fully restore the chatbot. Thousands of ChatGPT users have been experiencing an outage of the chatbot since Tuesday morning. As a result, they sometimes had to wait a long time for
The global economic turmoil will hit poor countries the hardest. The trade war is disastrous for developing economies. If nothing changes, the well-being of billions of people will be at stake. The World Bank predicts that global economic growth will fall to 2.3 percent this year. That is the weakest growth in seventeen years, after
Brussels wants to lower the price cap for Russian oil from $60 to $45 per barrel. This should make it more difficult for Russia to finance its war against Ukraine. The EU also wants to make investments in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines unattractive. This is according to a new sanctions package
Travelers are experiencing disruptions today due to the nationwide strike by NS (Dutch Railways) personnel. NU.nl readers are wondering: couldn’t the staff simply stop checking tickets for a day? The idea is that this would primarily affect the NS and not the traveler. According to some readers, it’s simple: if NS personnel would just leave