Traduction de «Temps de main-d’œuvre improductive » (Français → Anglais) :

At the same time, the Union recognises that migrants constitute an indispensible workforce for the EU, both in terms of responding to labour shortages in certain areas, and in terms of providing a highly qualified workforce.

Stresses that an older labour force and longer working lives can make a positive contribution to the recovery and future growth; considers that, for (older) employees performing physically and/or mentally demanding work, a dynamic labour market must offer creative solutions such as greater flexibility in the statutory retirement age, part-time pensions, adapted working conditions, encouraging lifelong learning, improving job-seeking services or movement from one job to another, to strike a lasting balance between the requirements of employment and the capacities of workers; considers there to be a need for an active policy to prevent d ...[+++]iscrimination on grounds of age by monitoring the correct implementation of Directives 2000/78/EC and 2006/54/EC and promoting a European culture of active aging ensuring that older people have a life of vitality and dignity; calls on Member States to combine penalties for labour market discrimination with incentives for employers to create an inclusive labour market; calls on the Member States, in the context of the reforms and the extension of working life and with the assistance of the Commission, to implement more effectively the directives on health and safety at work;

Temporary adjustment of working hours ("short-time") in line with production needs can be an important source of labour input flexibility.

And we heard from the CFIB, I think it was, that full-time employment plans of the next 12 months would show there would be an increase of 30%; that shortage of qualified labour was one of the top three either one, two, or three in the priorities; that the long-term vacancy rate was increasing for the percentage of jobs vacant for more than four months; that in a survey, 68% thought it would be harder rather than easier to find employees in the future; and that some would ignore new business opportunities, up to 38%, because of the difficulty in getting skilled labour or labour they would require.

The report shows that the Commission and the Member States have already agreed on nine basic performance indicators: (1) total employment growth, (2) total employment rate, (3) total employment rate (full-time equivalent), (4) total unemployment rate, (5) youth unemployment ratio, (6) long-term unemployment rate, (7) real GDP growth, (8) apparent labour productivity growth and (9) real unit labour costs.

I think they will be familiar to you. They include: education and skills, which are the great divide in our knowledge economy; growth of non-standard jobs such as self-employment, contract work, part-time and multiple jobs; the revolutionary rise in women's labour force participation; marriage breakdown and the increase in single parent families; mass immigration, overwhelmingly to Canada's largest cities; low birthrate requiring Canada to rely more heavily on immigration for its labour supply; persistent poverty where half of the poor are working Canadians; and persistent high unemployment in some regions and communities.