Frost-bound building firms get cash help
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Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on GoogleBuilding groups, gardening companies and window washing firms can claim government help to pay workers who have been left without anything to do because of the long period of frost.
Social affairs minister Piet Hein Donner has agreed that companies which have been affected by the wintry weather can apply for temporary unemployment benefit (ww) for staff for February and March.
Some 400 claims have already been made and thousands are expected, the Financieele Dagblad reports.
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