Traduction de «Bulletin du marché du travail » (Français → Anglais) :

9. Strongly criticises the Commission’s overall approach in its communication on the 2013 country-specific recommendations on ‘combating unemployment’, which focuses on further increasing the flexibility of labour markets and reducing ‘the relatively high costs of labour’, etc.; points out that it was and is these neo-liberal ‘structural reforms’ of labour markets pursued by Member States that are responsible for the drastic increase in precarious forms of employment, reduced levels of social protection and the expansion of low-wage sectors so much deplored by the Commission’s Employment Reports, developments that have an extremely negative impact in particular on young people and their employment prospects; calls on the Commission to bre ...[+++]ak with the promotion of neo-liberal structural labour market reforms of the past decades and to elaborate a European Employment Strategy based on the concept of ‘good work’ and the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda, with a strong focus on creating quality and sustainable jobs, phasing out precarious forms of employment, abolishing workfare programmes, promoting quality in work, improving social security, enhancing workers’ rights, promoting shorter collective working time without any loss of wages and reconciling professional and private life; stresses that the revised guidelines should include a specific focus on gender equality, with measures to improve women’s access to the labour market and to ensure equality in employment for women and men;

1. Encouraging more people to work more and longer so as to obtain similar entitlements as before: increases in pensionable ages; rewarding later and penalising earlier retirement (see figure 8); moves from benefits based on earnings in best years towards entitlement based on working career average earnings; closing or restricting early exit pathways; labour market measures to encourage and enable older workers to stay in the labour market and encouraging greater gender equality in the labour market.

40. Points to the necessity of creating an inclusive labour market as the core of any active inclusion strategy, a labour market with decent working conditions and job diversity for all workers taking into account different workplace needs, individual workers" requirements, working patterns and time models, differing skill levels, and different needs in terms of reconciliation of family, private and professional life; notes that high-quality employment is essential to promote job retention;

We have shown by our record that a strong health and safety record judged by outcomes is entirely compatible with flexible labour markets and flexible working hours.

22. Reiterates the importance it attaches to the development and use of comparable socioeconomic indicators which make it possible to monitor quantitative and qualitative trends on the labour market and Member State policies; takes the view that these indicators should reflect, inter alia, the net job-creation rate, the level of involvement of the various groups in the various sectors and types of employment, average and maximum working hours, the funding (as a percentage of GNP) disbursed on welfare protection and an active labour market policy, and the impact of taxes and welfare contributions on wages; the method for improving the e ...[+++]mployment situation should therefore include benchmarking;

22. Calls once again on the Commission to submit proposals for the use of comparable socio-economic indicators to monitor quantitative and qualitative trends on the labour market and in the policy of the Member States; believes that such indicators should relate to the rate of unemployment, the level of employment, the degree of participation by different groups in the various sectors and modes of work on the labour market, the mean and maximum number of hours of work, the funding (as a percentage of GNP) devoted to social protection and an active labour market policy and the maximum permissible wage spread;