passive labour market policy [ passive labor market policy ]

active labour market policy [ ALMP | active labor market policy ]

active labour market policy | ALMP [Abbr.]

labour market policy officer

labour market policy | LMP [Abbr.]

Labour Market and Social Policy Analyses

One of the guiding principles of the European Employment Strategy is to turn passive measures into active labour market policies.

37. Calls on the Member States to review their legislative and policy framework in respect of the participation of women with disabilities and women with intellectual impairments and mental disabilities in the labour market; stresses the need to adopt active labour-market policy measures for women with disabilities, which offer choices for the individual, including flexible, part-time and full-time employment, and to consider the possibility of stimulating small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through financial incentives and other support for better reconciliation of professional and private life; stresses that women with disabili ...[+++]ties should have equal access to financing for the creation of small enterprises and other forms of self-employment, as well as the right to choose between different forms of employment; encourages Member States to draw on best practices around Europe; calls on employers to make reasonable adjustments to workplaces and working conditions in order to place a greater focus on providing incentives for disabled people and actively including them in the labour market, with the possibility for individual cases of discrimination to be heard at labour courts in accordance with Article 5 of Directive 2000/78/EC;

3. Calls on the Member States to review their legislative and policy framework in respect of the participation of women with disabilities and women with intellectual impairments and mental disabilities in the labour market; stresses the need to adopt active labour-market policy measures for women with disabilities, which offer choices for the individual, including flexible, part-time and full-time employment, and to consider the possibility of stimulating small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through financial incentives and other support for better reconciliation of professional and private life; stresses that women with disabilit ...[+++]ies should have equal access to financing for the creation of small enterprises and other forms of self-employment, as well as the right to choose between different forms of employment; encourages Member States to draw on best practices around Europe; calls on employers to make reasonable adjustments to workplaces and working conditions in order to place a greater focus on providing incentives for disabled people and actively including them in the labour market, with the possibility for individual cases of discrimination to be heard at labour courts in accordance with Article 5 of Directive 2000/78/EC;

13. Insists that the development of skills and competences throughout the lifecycle is best served by a rights-based approach to active labour market policies and lifelong learning, comprehensive health and safety at work, universal and equal social and workers’ rights for everyone, a work/life balance and reconciliation of work and non-work life, improving the quality of employment and well-being at work instead of an approach of ‘boosting labour mobility’ and promoting flexicurity; insists that the EU skills and jobs agenda must be closely linked to robust supply and demand side measures to promote a green and social economy and respe ...[+++]ctive industrial and regional policies for sustainable development, rather than a mere strategy of ‘anticipating change’; calls on the Commission to initiate a Community strategy proposing measures that encourage the creation of environmentally and socially sustainable jobs in the ‘green’ and ‘white’ economies;