Translation of "Departmental Workforce Adjustment Priority Notification " (English → French) :

Departmental Workforce Adjustment Committee

But we made it very clear—“we” being the three unions—that workforce adjustment should be the first priority of any of those design teams in terms of re-establishing the comfort levels, certainly of us, as the representatives, and ultimately of the people in the field.

We also established an ADM-level oversight committee to control all new staffing at the Privy Council Office to ensure that folks who are impacted by workforce adjustment get the priority to which they are entitled.

While Treasury Board Secretariat has the lead responsibility in managing workforce adjustment, the PSC has two specific roles with respect to workforce adjustment: first, by providing policy guidance and support to departments in selecting employees for retention or layoff; and second, in managing priority entitlements.

13. Considers that among the impacts of the economic crisis the rise of poverty in the European Union is the greatest concern; considers it essential to halt the current rise in unemployment in the European Union; points out that the most efficient way of reducing and preventing poverty is through a strategy based on the goals of full employment, high-quality jobs, social inclusion, measures to encourage entrepreneurship, and activities to boost the role of SMEs and investments; recalls that a strategy to address exclusion from the labour market should be based on adequate living standards and income support, inclusive labour markets as well as access to high-quality services and education; considers, therefore, that employment must be ...[+++]supported by actions for entrepreneurs, SMEs and investments, as well as initiatives to help people in re-entering the labour market; considers that a special priority in this respect should be retraining the unemployed and providing education aimed at creating a skilled and specialised workforce; considers that the principle of solidarity is fundamental to the European construction process, that Community financing should be made available to Member States in respect of schemes aimed at preventing the excessive loss of jobs, retraining workers and endowing non-skilled people with skills; considers that labour regulation needs to be developed in order to achieve a higher degree of flexibility and security within the labour market as well as in getting a new job; considers that Community financial instruments, such as the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, must be revamped so that they can be deployed efficiently and in a timely manner, in relation to large sectors of the economy that are shedding jobs; welcomes the Commission's proposal to simplify the criteria for the European Social Fund and refocus activities towards the most vulnerable;