wholly unemployed person | wholly unemployed worker

person who is partially or intermittently unemployed

cantonal supplementary allowances for unemployed persons in so far as they are means-tested

unemployment [ frictional unemployment | rate of unemployment | unemployment level ]

out-of-work people [ the unemployed ]

jobless [ unemployed | unemployed worker | unemployed individual ]

unemployment insurance [ unemployment benefit ]

cyclical unemployment

Problems related to employment and unemployment

core unemployment rate [ natural rate of unemployment | natural unemployment rate ]

In order to promote the sustainable integration into employment of unemployed and inactive people, the 2003 Employment Guidelines ask Member States to offer to every unemployed person a new start before reaching 6 months of unemployment, in the case of young people, and 12 months of unemployment in the case of adults, in the form of training, retraining, work practice, a job, or other employment measure; and to ensure that, by 2010, 25% at least of the long-term unemployed participate in an active measure.

While their main role currently is to address the needs of the unemployed, employment services can play a more comprehensive role as lifelong service providers, delivering services in skills assessment, profiling, training delivery, individual career guidance and client counselling (workers and employers), matching people to job profiles, and offering services to employers, as well as catering for the challenges of those furthest away from the labour market.

1. By way of derogation from Article 65, a wholly unemployed person who, as a frontier worker, has most recently completed periods of insurance as a self-employed person or periods of self-employment recognised for the purposes of granting unemployment benefits in a Member State other than his/her Member State of residence and whose Member State of residence has submitted notification that there is no possibility for any category of self-employed persons to be covered by an unemployment benefits system of that Member State, shall register with and make himself/herself available to the employment services in the Member State in which he/s ...[+++]he pursued his/her last activity as a self-employed person and, when he/she applies for benefits, shall continuously adhere to the conditions laid down under the legislation of the latter Member State. The wholly unemployed person may, as a supplementary step, make himself/herself available to the employment services of the Member State of residence.

While their main role currently is to address the needs of the unemployed, employment services can play a more comprehensive role as lifelong service providers, delivering services in skills assessment, profiling, training delivery, individual career guidance and client counselling (workers and employers), matching people to job profiles, and offering services to employers, as well as catering for the challenges of those furthest away from the labour market.