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Re-integratie zieke werknemer (MSR nr. 66) 2014/13.2
Bijlage 13.2 De Common Principles of flexicurity
mr.dr. G.A. Diebels, datum 24-09-2014
- Datum
24-09-2014
- Auteur
mr.dr. G.A. Diebels
- JCDI
JCDI:ADS575667:1
- Vakgebied(en)
Arbeidsrecht / Europees arbeidsrecht
Rechtswetenschap / Algemeen
Sociale zekerheid arbeidsongeschiktheid / Re-integratie
Arbeidsrecht / Arbeidsovereenkomstenrecht
Voetnoten
Voetnoten
‘Better jobs’ sluit aan bij het ILO-concept van Decent work (ILO Report of the Director-General: Decent Work, Geneve 1999), A. Tangian, ‘Is Europe Ready for Flexicurity? Empirical Evidence, Critical Remarks and a Reform Proposal’, Forum maart/april 2008, p.99.
De vier componenten van de Commissie, zie ook Wilthagen 2008, p.10-11.
De bedoeling is om Lidstaten aan te sporen en te helpen om een eigen traject uit te stippelen richting flexicurity, rekening houdend met hun specifieke achtergrond, Vandeputte, p.382.
Bekker, p.254-255.
‘Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity-More and Better Jobs through Flexibility and Security, COM(2007)359 final, 27/07/08, aangenomen op de vergadering van de Raad op 6 en 14 december 2007, nr. 16201/07 SOC 523 ECOFIN 503
Flexicurity is a means to reinforce the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy, create more and better jobs, modernise labour markets, and promote good work through new forms of flexibility and security to increase adaptability, employment and social cohesion.1
Flexicurity involves the deliberate combination of flexible and reliable contractual arrangements, comprehensive lifelong learning strategies, effective active labour market policies, and modern, adequate and sustainable social protection systems.2
Flexicurity approaches are not about one single labour market or working life model, nor about a single policy strategy: they should be tailored to the specific circumstances of each Member State. Flexicurity implies a balance between rights and responsibilities of all concerned. Based on the Common Principles, each Member State should develop its own flexicurity arrangements. Progress should be effectively monitored.3
Flexicurity should promote more open, responsive and inclusive labour markets overcoming segmentation. It concerns both those in work and those out of work. The inactive, the unemployed, those in undeclared work, in unstable employment, or at the margins of the labour market need to be provided with better opportunities, economic incentives and supportive measures for easier access to work or steppingstones to assist progress into stable and legally secure employment. Support should be available to all those in employment to remain employable, progress and manage transitions both in work and between jobs.
Internal (within the enterprise) as well as external flexicurity are equally important and should be promoted. Sufficient contractual flexibility must be accompanied by secure transitions from job to job. Upward mobility needs to be facilitated, as well as between unemployment or inactivity and work. High-quality and productive workplaces, good organisation of work, and continuous upgrading of skills are also essential. Social protection should provide incentives and support for job transitions and for access to new employment.
Flexicurity should support gender equality, by promoting equal access to quality employment for women and men and offering measures to reconcile work, family and private life.
Flexicurity requires a climate of trust and broadly-based dialogue among all stakeholders, where all are prepared to take the responsibility for change with a view to socially balanced policies. While public authorities retain an overall responsibility, the involvement of social partners in the design and implementation of flexicurity policies through social dialogue and collective bargaining is of crucial importance.
Flexicurity requires a cost effective allocation of resources and should remain fully compatible with sound and financially sustainable public budgets. It should also aim at a fair distribution of costs and benefits, especially between businesses, public authorities and individuals, with particular attention to the specific situation of SMEs.4