Translation of "changing occupational skill requirements " (English → French) :

With the pace of technological change, a major challenge for industry, in particular SMEs, is to better anticipate and manage the transformative change with regard to skills requirements.

29. Calls on the Commission to cooperate with the representatives of the maritime economic sector and training providers with a view to establishing and funding European Sector Councils on Employment and Skills, in order to register jobs, changes in skills required and related training needs;

10. Believes that the Commission, the Member States, the industry and the trade unions should act jointly to retain and attract qualified workers, talented high-skilled scientists and managers to the steel sector, as well as young talent through apprenticeship schemes, thus ensuring a dynamic and innovative workforce; recalls the role of regional universities and industrial research institutes, whose excellence does much to create the regional preconditions for a competitive steel industry; urges the Commission and the Member States to implement immediate actions to avoid the loss of expertise and minimise the loss of jobs; calls for the improvement of planning and manag ...[+++]ement of change by promoting training, upgrading skills and supporting retraining; is worried about the lack of systematic solutions to the generational change and future skills shortages, and about the loss of know-how and competences, and stresses the need to retain and develop the workforce and the skills vital for the future competitiveness of the sector; urges the Commission to promote, through the Erasmus for All and Erasmus for Entrepreneurs programmes, Sector Skills Alliances which, on the basis of data on skills requirements and their evolution, will be devoted to developing and implementing training programmes and common methods, including work-based learning; calls for steps to be taken to strengthen instruments to assist workers and promote vocational training in order to facilitate and support the redeployment of staff employed in the sector following corporate restructuring;

the anticipation and positive management of economic change, notably through increased industrial investment, especially by SMEs, the design and dissemination of innovative and more productive forms of work organisation, the improvement of quality of the workplace, including health and safety at work, by giving specific support to SMEs and micro-businesses and their representative organisations at national, regional and local level in the implementation of existing legislation and by promoting an appropriate balance between safety and flexibility, the identification of future occupational ...[+++] and skills requirements, the adequate supply of possibilities for part-time work, the development of specific employment, occupational and training services, as well as outplacement and support services to improve the protection of workers from the effects of company and sector restructuring, as well as the promotion of vocational education in SMEs, particularly with regard to apprenticeships, and the taking of measures to enhance the necessary work skills and promote reorientation, consultancy and professional training on the employment market ;

(ii) the anticipation and positive management of economic change, notably through increased industrial investment, especially by SMEs, the design and dissemination of innovative and more productive forms of work organisation, the improvement of quality of the workplace, including health and safety at work, by giving specific support to SMEs and micro-businesses and their representative organisations at national, regional and local level in the implementation of existing legislation and by promoting an appropriate balance between safety and flexibility, the identification of future occupational ...[+++] and skills requirements, the adequate supply of possibilities for part-time work, the development of specific employment, occupational and training services, as well as outplacement and support services to improve the protection of workers from the effects of company and sector restructuring.

(ii) the anticipation and positive management of economic change, notably through the design and dissemination of innovative and more productive forms of work organisation, including better health and safety, the identification of future occupational and skills requirements, and the development of specific employment, training and support services to workers in the context of company and sector restructuring.