Maggie's Farm

The Dutch model is already having major unintended consequences (or we hope they're unintended, cynics like me think they're quite intentional) of causing even more unemployment among people with poor education records, and lengthening unemployment periods for everyone.

The mandate to do volunteer work is being abused to force people into that, replacing previous employees who were on minimum (or up to medium level) wages. City councils and "charities" are especially guilty of this.

And at the high end of the job market, people with senior positions and/or long employment histories, people who get their jobs through headhunters and recruitment agencies working for them, the requirement to "prove" they've been actively looking for a job effectively means they can't get benefits, as those agencies and headhunters aren't going to turn over lists of companies they've offered their resumes to for consideration.
So many take to writing semi-bogus application letters to companies they know won't hire them just to meet the requirements. Hardly effective use of manpower resources for HR departments.

The plan works wonders to reduce expense and create an artificial slowdown in the rise of people on welfare. Artificial because many are simply for bogus reasons no longer listed for welfare when they should be, and others get shoved in and out of minimum wage and below minimum wage jobs that leave them permanently ineligible for welfare but instead have them in and out of unemployment checks which cost the government exactly the same.