Benefits of Public Services for
the Employment in
Flexicurity* implementation:
To help in transitions during
the Crisis
Conference : « Flexicurity in times of
Crisis » - Prague March 25th-26th 2009
Annie Gauvin
Director of Studies, Assessment, and
International Matters
Employment pole - France
*flexibility ad social securities /translator’s note/
SPE* intervention framework and the common
standpoint from December 2008
Four Flexicurity components with impacts on
particular SPE activities
Flexicurity strengthens SPE role
Challenges in times of Crisis
* Public Services for Employment /translator’s note/
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SPE Intervention Framework
Statement on Public Services mission for the
Employment in Lathi in 2006
« Public Services for the Employment have a special mission on the
Labour Market – to provide free services to employment seekers
and employers, the aim of which is to balance the supply and
demand, and to contribute to higher transparency on the Labour
Market»
Variability of national situations on the Labour Market and in
institutions
Common principles : network significance, proximity, accessibility,
care of persons in greatest difficulties
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SPE Intervention Framework
Common standpoint was adopted at the meeting of
SPE representatives on December 11th – 12th 2008. It is
stated in the report «Flexicurity Mission»
SPE: possibility to actually interfere in particular
implementation of Flexicurity principles
Challenges in times of Crisis
To be proactive, to react immediately to the Labour Market situation
by its interventions
To simplify and secure transitions between individual employments
and between fields of activities
To provide immediately services to persons who just lost their jobs,
to facilitate their job search
To take care of the most vulnerable persons
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SPE Intervention Context
Demographic perspectives, economical changes, innovations of
production processes
Complex and contrast situations on the European Labour
Market
Manpower shortage
Lack of employment
Employment rate too low
Unemployment rate too high
Current situation
Substantial responses on Labour Markets
Increasing unemployment and decreasing working positions
Very high decline in job opportunities
Risk of interconnection with structural unemployment
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4 Flexicurity Components with impacts on SPE
Operation: In both, the Period of Economic
Growth and Crisis
Active Labour Market policies
Strengthened in times of Crisis
Central SPE role
Contractual labour relations: impacts on the scope and nature of
working position and manpower flows
Loss of employment conditions
Types of job opportunities
Global lifetime education strategies appeal to SPE
Orientation and capacity abilities for short-term trainings in existing jobs
Providing training with the aim of permanent employment, and training for future
employment
Modern social protection system: logics of balanced rights and duties
of individuals and employment agents
Support of reasonable income during transition periods
Strengthening services of employment agents
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Flexicurity Strengthens SPE Role : 6 Specific
Areas of Operation (1/3)
Helping job applicants, and monitoring programs for job
applicants
To intervene as soon as possible
To apply differentiated and personal approach
To help mainly persons with greatest difficulties
Using multi-channel approach methods
To develop self-service
Support of transitions between individual working positions
To guide and intervene against restructuring
To provide transparency of vacancies
To provide « management » of growing and differentiating mobility
To supplement associated services with custom-made training
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Flexicurity Strengthens SPE Role : 6 Specific
Areas of Operation (2/3)
Activating passive measures and balanced monitoring of rights and
duties of job applicants
To define active search of working positions
To condition payments of benefits
To connects Employment Bureaus/Agencies with authorities providing
unemployment benefits
Services offered to employers for recruitment
To provide employers with professional negotiators for their recruitment
To foresee manpower needs and to identify new sources of working positions
To develop services adjusted to employers
To promptly satisfy job offers
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Flexicurity Strengthens SPE Role : 6 Specific
Areas of Operation (3/3)
Specific services for target persons
To expand and deepen the offer of services for persons most distant to the
Labour Market
Young people, seniors, season employees, handicapped persons, persons
very distant to employment, workers with low qualification
To draw from sources of inactive manpower
Information services and support of geographic and occupational
mobility
To inform on the Labour Market and vacancies in order to facilitate
employment exchange and recruitments
To develop mobility support
EURES : information on the European Labour Market; assistance for
applicants and agents; cross-border services
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Challenges: SPE must adjust Methods of its
Operation and its Organisation
To work with other participants (private services, non-governmental
organisations, educational and training organisations)
To provide territorial coherence of interventions (with business and
social partners)
To endeavour after internal development of agent’s competencies
and adjustment of organisations
To better assess efficiency and impacts of its measures
To strengthen SPE benefits for defining Labour Market policies
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Challenges : SPE benefits in times of Crisis
Measures
Maintenance of employment; keeping on the job (partial activities)
Assistance in creating working positions
Retraining supports using specific programs
Expanding the portfolio of services for new customers
Maintaining the contact with employment in job applicants
Searching sources of working positions
Increasing educational and e-learnign capacities
Developing decentralised centres in disadvantaged areas
Support in job search: strengthened or adjusted unemployment benefits
Strengthening SPE means (staff; agencies)
Increasing tax relief opportunities and interventions in partnership with
other participants
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Continuing Work of SPE Representatives
To continue in considerations emerging from the common standpoint
Ti identify good practice
To work up the question of SPE benefits to Flexicurity in times of Crisis
Thank you for your attention.
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