NATIONAL LABOUR MARKET POLICIES

Basic Information Reports

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

Overall Developments

• Equality between Men and Women at Work

• New Law Governing Employment Relations and the Establishment of a Labour Inspectorate

• Job Security and the Labour Market Reform of 1997

• "Emersion" of Illegal Employment

• Policy Initiatives of the New Netherlands Government

• Law on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life

• Proposal for a New Employment Target

Placement and Vocational Guidance

• Exchanges of Staff between Employment Services

• Cooperation between Local Communities, Employment Services and Social Security Agencies at the Regional Level

• Attitudes among Employers towards Different Groups of Job Applicants

Job Creation

• Flanders Region: Work Experience Grant

• Telework Initiative

• Territorial Pact: Agreement on Flexibility in Some Areas of the Mezzogiorno

• More than 30,000 Jobs under the EWLW Regulation

• Opening up New Service Occupations in the Field of Non-market Employment - The NEW START Pilot Programme
• The Territorial Employment Pact for Vienna within the Framework of the National Action Plan for Employment

• Further Developments in the "New Deal"

Training

• Vocational Training Cheques in the Walloon Region

• Preparations for a Reform of Vocational Training

• Skills Development in Professional Life
• Adult Education Initiative (AEI)

Social Protection, Unemployment Benefits

• Pilot Project: Minimum Insertion Income

• Activating Unemployment Benefit and Emergency Aid
• Table 1: Expenditure on active labour market policy measures, 1996 and 1997 (in ATS million)

Special Categories of Workers

• Equality of Opportunity for Women Given Priority in the National Action Plan for Employment

• Positive Action to Promote Female Entrepreneurs

• Return to Work of Disabled Persons

• New Measures for the Disabled

Working Time

• An Example of a Branch-level Agreement on Working-time Reduction: The Textile Industry

Miscellaneous

• Territorial Pacts: Determining the Crisis Areas
• The Fight against Social Exclusion: Support for Non-profit Initiatives

• International Conference on Employment Policy (RIPE 98)
• Seminar on Underemployment

• Displacement Effects in Sweden

FOCUS

• Self-employment: Employment Dynamics in the European Union

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