Flexicurity
Flexicurity ( a portmanteau of engl flexibility ( dt: . Flexibility ) and security ( German: Security ) ) provides in labor market policy is a compromise formula is for a balance of interests between employers and employees: employers demand with the key word " flexibility ", the protection against dismissal to loosen; workers are primarily interested in the safety of their workplace or sustain their employment.
Also, terms of the economy, there is an interest in an adequate job security, as in the case of insufficient security in the short term lower investment in human capital and a long-term decline in fertility are expected.
The origin of the term is attributed to the Dutch sociologist Hans Adriaansens. Ton Wilthagen ( Tilburg University ) has developed the concept scientifically. 1999 the Dutch government had a printed matter published Flexibiliteit s zekerheid that followed a law. Thus, the previously existing dismissal rules were reduced and strengthened the protection to temporary work contracts in return.
As model cases the labor market reforms are understood in the 1990s in the Netherlands and Denmark, where the relief will be linked by redundancies with a high short-term material support for the unemployed ( passive labor market policies) and support the rapid re-establishment in the event of termination due to intensive measures of active labor market policy.
Through the European Social Agenda, which was adopted in Nice in December 2000 by the European Council, flexicurity was declared a component of the European social model and essential part of the Lisbon process.
After that has been adopted by the European Union principles, which are to be implemented according to the different national cultures of the Member States; laid down by the document COM (2007) 359 final, " Communication de la Commission au Parlement européen au Conseil, au Comité économique et social européen et au Comité des régions - Verse of the principes communs de flexicurité: Des emplois plus nombreux et de meilleure qualité en Combinant flexibilité et sécurité ", adopted on 27 June 2007. As objectives are cited to enable competence and living areas on the one hand efficient and rapid transitions in the career of employees between different work and also to give him the necessary skills to do so. The " Europe 2020 strategy " of the European Commission intends to continue the flexicurity policies in the labor market.
While in Luxembourg diverging opinions between the unions and the employers' associations with regard to the exact content of flexicurity exist, so, however, the government keeps the standard model of the open-ended contract with appropriate protection against dismissal and suspend preferably to the subsidiarity principle: the "social partners" are in interprofessional agreements (accords en matière de dialogue social inter professionels ) take appropriate industry- differentiated arrangements. Mechanisms for maintaining employment ( maintien de l' emploi ) shall come into operation before necessity of a social plan for collective redundancies as possible without the economic committee must intervene ( comité de conjoncture ). Likewise, were partly modified because of the protest on the part of school leavers and students, introduced new regulations concerning the re-integration into the labor market and lifelong learning.