Mariëtte Patijn (born 29 December 1966) is a Dutch politician representing the Labour Party (PvdA) who was elected to the

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in the

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Biography

Patijn is the daughter of Schelto Patijn (1936–2007), who served as a member of parliament and as the mayor of Amsterdam on behalf of the Labour Party. After not completing several studies, she started her career as a secretary for the

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(FNV). She rose to the rank of union leader in her twenties, conducting negotiations for

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s, and later became the federation's vice chair and terms of employment coordinator. Patijn left the FNV in 2018 and subsequently started working for the Netherlands Labour Authority. She has told that she found the union's involvement too broad and that she preferred to focus on labour and wages. She ran for the House of Representative in the 2023 general election as the sixth candidate on the shared

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list and was elected. Patijn advocated for reducing flexible contracts, saying that fixed contracts would ensure more corporate earnings would go to wages rather than profits. Her focus in the House is on labor, income, and labor migration (formerly also integration).

House committee assignments

* Public Expenditure committee * Committee for Finance * Committee for Social Affairs and Employment

Biography

House committee assignments

Electoral history

References

See also