Only wanting young employees with many years of experience, and that time the Dutch government tried to get unemployed people to work in the green houses. They got hundreds of people on buses, drove them to the green houses "look how wonderful it is to work here", a few million investment later, two people started working there. Both because this was a good way to meet others, and they didn't mind getting a lot less money if they took the job over government payment.
The greenhouses paid less because unemployed have many benefits that don't apply to working people, so getting a minimum wage job would be 40 hours + travel of your life gone for effectively a few % of more expendable income.
The people that actually do the work are people from Eastern Europe that don't get that kind of money from welfare in their own country if it exists at all.
If welfare would be less or preferably the actual minimum wage would be taxed less the gap between having a job and not having a job would be really worth the effort.
It's utterly strange that within some of the people that are rescued from war there's up to 80% of unemployment while The Netherlands needs to import people to do unskilled labor.
Only wanting young employees with many years of experience, and that time the Dutch government tried to get unemployed people to work in the green houses. They got hundreds of people on buses, drove them to the green houses "look how wonderful it is to work here", a few million investment later, two people started working there. Both because this was a good way to meet others, and they didn't mind getting a lot less money if they took the job over government payment.