Rijkswaterstaat to Cut Tens of Millions: Cuts in Lunches and Sports Days for Civil Servants

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The thousands of employees of Rijkswaterstaat are no longer allowed to meet outside the office. The budget for lunches, company outings and sports days is also being cut. This month, a major round of cutbacks was started that should yield 50 million euros this year.

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SocialSo things aren't going so well for the manager of the country's 3,100 kilometres of motorways, bridges and tunnels. Despite an additional contribution of 240 million from The Hague, it spent 500 million too much last year, made a loss of 80 million and its equity fell from 165 to 64 million. The highest cost item is personnel, and around 50 million is now being cut. "Last year, Rijkswaterstaat spent more than 200 million euros more on sala…