Paulien Osse
Co - founder WageIndicator Foundation, Global Lead Living Wages
Amsterdam, North Holland
Overview
Work Experience
Member of Living Wage Team
2022 - Current
Working with global clients to facilitate the implementation of Living Wages across industries.
Director and founder
2003 - 2022
WageIndicator Foundation - 206 countries, 6 offices around the world. Comparison: Living & Minimum Wages, Labour Law, Collective Agreements.
Director
1983 - 2013
Any job which is not related to the WageIndicators can be done as director Webword. I fixed hundreds of Jobs as director WebWord and VOF De Woorden or as a freelance journalist. Think about moderating, web managing, creating web structures, writing stories, creating scenario's or magazines. Always with a pinch of (international) economics and gender.
Chairperson Task Force
2005 - 2007
Official Taskforce until June 2007 - Informal: Gelijkloon.nl is still there. The taskforce never dies.
E-Tradeunions
2001 - 2006
www.e-tradeunions.org is a worldwide helpdesk for web-workers in NGO’s and trade unions. The website carries 5 languages: German, English, French, Spanish and Russian. The helpdesk covers web management, content management, interactive management, techniques. It is specially made for web workers outside the USA and Northwestern Europe. With the participation of UNI, ITUC, FNV, Prospect (UK). (E-tradeunions won the Trade Unions Award 2002: The Best Info Product). The team: a group of friends/web managers all of whom started well before the Millennium.
Web Manager
1999 - 2002
www.fnv.nl , creating a new concept for trade union websites as manager of a coordination-team of 6 people, 70 web workers all over the Netherlands, achieving a website with 30,000 visitors a week (in 2001!). All web-workers were trained on issues like: web-concept, writing for the web, interaction design, marketing/promotion of a website. (www.fnv.nl won the Dutch trade union award: Best information product of the year 2000. In 2001 www.fnv.nl got the Trade Union Award for the Best Idea)
Journalist
1991 - 1999
I worked for FNV Magazine as a fulltime journalist and wrote in that period several books on labour market issues: * Levensloopbanen, FNV Pers 2003 (best practices about combining work and private life) * Doorlopende Banen, (50 best practices about employability), FNV Pers, 1999 * Spelen met werk-tijd (25 best practices about flexible working time), FNV Pers, 1998 * Alles over deeltijd, (handbook part-time work), FNV Pers, 1995 * Handboek werkende ouders, (handbook working parents, based on research among 600 working parents), FNV Pers 1993 * Mijnbouw in Namibië, (about the mining industry in Namibia) Kairos, 1990