NATIONAL LABOUR MARKET POLICIES

Basic Information Reports

• Developments at a Glance
• "Policies" and the Four Pillars of the Luxembourg Guidelines for 1998

Overall Developments

• Implementation of the Belgian Action Plan for Employment
• Preventive action against youth unemployment

• Three Measures Implementing the National Action Plan for Employment

• Agency Work: First National Collective Agreement

• Growing Number of Women with Young Children in Paid Employment

Placement and Vocational Guidance

• The Notion of "Guidance" in the Context of the Extended Range of ANPE Services

• Internet to Relieve Workload of the AMS

Job Creation

• "Impulse Plan" for the 100 Municipalities Most Affected by Unemployment

• Employing Young People "on the Ground"

• National Action Plan - Focus on Youth Employment
• Wage Subsidies for the Long-Term Unemployed and Persons Threatened with Long-Term Unemployment

• Regional Employment Plan for the Alentejo Region
• Criteria for the Promotion of "Integration Enterprises"

• Recent Developments in the "New Deal"

Training

• QUAS - A Pilot Project Offering "Training and Work for School-Leavers"

Social Protection, Unemployment Benefits

• Two Legal Changes

• Amendments to the Young Workers' Protection Act

• Recent Developments Concerning Rights for Workers, Minimum Wage and Childcare

Special Categories of Workers

• Programmes Offering Subsidies for the Recruitment of Jobseekers from Problem Groups

• The Struggle Against Exclusion: Employment Promotion Measures

• Interview Plan for Unemployed Youth

• Act on (Re)Integration in Employment of the Occupationally Disabled

• Integration of Immigrants and Asylum Seekers

Working Time

• Statutory Working Week of 35 Hours as of 2000/2002

• Act on Financial Support for Career Breaks
• Two New Acts Improve the Legal Position of Workers in Flexible Employment

• More Flexibility and Clarity in Family Leaves

Miscellaneous

• Close Cooperation between the Employment and Social Security Offices

• National Programme for Developing Working Life

• Labour Market 2010

FOCUS

• Unemployment and Households: Causes and Consequences of Employment Polarisation Among European Countries

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