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An important department of the Dutch Tax Authority did not properly handle personal data of citizens and companies, according to several investigations into security in the Data & Analytics Department. As a result, the personal data of tens of thousands of Dutch leaked in various ways, including being sent to third parties or taken home by employees. The investigations also found that tax employees searched for information about individual tax payers, RTL Nieuws reports.

Store chain Blokker will be closing 100 branches in the coming year. Sister company Marskramer will close another 100. A total of 1,900 jobs will disappear at Blokker, Marskramer and at parent company Blokker Holding, the company announced on Tuesday. Blokker Holding will eventually cease to exist. Marskramer will continue on a franchise formula. And chains Intertoys, Maxi Toys, Big Bazar, Xenos and Leen Bakker will be sold off, ANP reports.

ABN Amro is implementing more cutbacks that will result in 1,500 lost jobs, the bank announced on Wednesday at the presentation of its qurterly results, the Telegraaf reports.

This new round of cutbacks could yield some 400 million euros in savings and comes in addition to reorganization plans already announced in recent months. The bank currently employs 26,500 people. By 2020 that number will be cut to 23 thousand. 

Broadcaster SBS firmly denies reports that it is planning to layoff a significant number of its staff. On Thursday morning newspaper AD reported that a quarter of the SBS staff will be laid off. A spokesperson for the broadcaster now told NU.nl that this is absolutely not true.

ING CEO Ralph Hamers is preparing for a major reorganization that will cost thousands of jobs as well as the autonomy of the countries where the bank is located, Financieele Dagblad reports. According to the newspaper, this plan is expected to save billions of euros in cost cuts.

ABN Amro plans to cut up to 1,375 jobs by 2020 in an effort to have the bank work more efficiently and save a structural 200 million euros a year, according to a request for advice the ABN Amro management sent to the works council on Monday

Negotiations between union FNV Luchtvaart and the KLM management on a new collective bargaining agreement for the ground staff, reached a stalemate on Monday, Mariette van Dijk of FNV confirmed

Shell is cutting 2,200 jobs worldwide to deal with the continuing low oil prices. Together with two previously announced rounds of layoffs, the Dutch oil and gas giant is cutting a total of 12,500 jobs in 2015 and 2016

Retail chain Blokker is laying off 390 workers in another reorganization. The Blokker employees were called together on Friday morning to get the news

Supermarket chain Jumbo is scrapping 190 of the 925 jobs at headquarters in a reorganization following the Jumbo-C1000 merge. Compulsory redundancies can not be excluded

TSN Thuiszorg, the largest home care organization in the Netherlands, applied for postponement of payment. Given that postponement of payment is often a prelude to bankruptcy, some 12 thousand jobs are now at risk.