prolonged user of IMF resources

long-lived nuclear waste | long-lived radioactive waste

long-term care institution [ long-term care facility | long-term care centre | extended care facility ]

long-playing record [ LP | LP record | long-playing phonograph record | lp record | long-play record | long play | 33 1/3-rpm record | album ]

long-form television programming [ long form television programming | longform television programming | long-form programming | longform ]

hard-core unemployed worker | hard-core unemployed | long-term unemployed | long-term unemployed worker

long-term custodial sentence | long custodial sentence

long-lasting rainfall | persistent precipitation

chronic disease | long-term disease | long-term illness | protracted disease

high-capacity battery | extended-life battery | extended battery | long life battery

2. Supports the three main components of the proposal: (i) ambitiously stepping up the registration of the long-term unemployed through an employment service aiming at full coverage; (ii) assessing the individual potential, needs and job preferences of the long‑term unemployed before they reach 18 months of unemployment; and (iii) offering a tailor-made, balanced and comprehensible ‘job integration agreement’ between the long-term unemployed and the services involved, at the latest by the time the person concerned reaches 18 months of unemployment; stresses, however, that an individual assessment should take place before the person re ...[+++]aches 12 months of unemployment, so as to ensure that the job integration agreement can be put in place before they reach 18 months of unemployment; insists that, where applicable, the three-step approach should not fall short in integrating non-state actors, such as social NGOs that work with the long‑term unemployed, into the process as a whole;

7. Considers it crucial that any programmes to reintegrate the long-term unemployed be geared to the needs of the labour market and be formulated in close cooperation with the social partners; calls on the Member States to motivate employers, including in a spirit of corporate social responsibility, to engage actively in offering job openings for the long-term unemployed, and, where needed, to appoint mentors to facilitate the smooth reintegration of the long-term unemployed on the work floor; calls for Member States’ employment services to assist SMEs in facilitating such mentoring; recalls that the long‑term unemployed need not only ...[+++] jobs but also comprehensive counselling and preparation for successful re-entry into the labour market;

1. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative of proposing a Council recommendation on the integration of the long-term unemployed into the labour market; stresses that an earlier release of the proposal, and agreement in the Council, could have prevented part of the long-term unemployment observed today; expresses concern that a Council recommendation may not be sufficient to redress swiftly the situation of the long-term unemployed, and encourages the Member States to deliver;

Encourage the registration of long-term unemployed with an employment service; Provide each registered long-term unemployed with an individual in-depth assessment to identify their needs and potential at the latest at 18 months of unemployment; Offer a job integration agreement to all registered long-term unemployed at the latest at 18 months.