09.02.2010

Flexisecurity in hiring, consensus on reforms and opening up to external market, recipes from Denmark, Austria and Germany to reduce unemployment in Spain

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Austrian Counsellor for Employment at Austria Permanent Delegation to OECD, Eva Belabed, Dutch ex-Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs, Mogens Lykketoft, and Deputy Director of German Institute for Employment Research, Ulrich Walwei, encouraged Spanish companies and social agents to wager for flexisecurity as an instrument which, with search for consensus on labour relations collective bargaining and greater opening to external market, can efficiently help reduce unemployment in Spain.

At the Symposium on “Employment and workplace relations: experiences from Austria, Denmark and Germany”, organized by IDEAS Foundation and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, representatives from Austria, Denmark and Germany noted the efficiency of flexisecurity, because it allows companies to reduce costs without firing people under difficult situations and, also allows workers to keep their jobs and even balance their work-family and/or academic life.  

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