Translation of "employee adjustment assistance benefits " (English → French) :

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8. Further points out in this connection that, in the present economic climate, businesses and the public sector are increasingly having recourse to unpaid internships or stages in order to avoid taking young persons on under a contract of employment; takes the view, without detracting in any way from the usefulness of such measures in affording young people work experience, that a model for a European scheme for a cross-border short-term employment contract should be created in order to enable young people to gain experience in their chosen field in a country other than their own without any risk to the employer; believes that the European skills exchange proposed in the previous paragraph could be used to administer this scheme by match ...[+++]ing job-seekers and employers, assisting with the administrative formalities and providing grants for participating SMEs; strongly believes that the benefits for the young people concerned (work experience and the possibility of a permanent job, language learning, skills acquisition, etc), for business (development of cross-border trade, increase in the pool of potential employees, etc) and for the EU as a whole (benefits in terms of social cohesion, positive effect on intra-Union trade and on employment, increased geographical mobility) would be substantial;

– (DE) Mr President, the Austrian application for assistance from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) concerns the former employees of a total of nine automotive suppliers in Steiermark.

The granting of a pre-natal allowance to the most needy pregnant women, family allowances for immigrants’ children, extension of maternity leave, a 20% increase in family allowance for one-parent families, tax benefits for businesses which install or subsidise crèches for their employees, the setting up of a maternity benefit, public support for medically assisted procreation – are good examples for other countries to follow.

15. Stresses that trade rules must be accompanied by an increase in support for trade-related assistance; calls for concrete commitments to be made prior to the conclusion of EPA negotiations, addressing trade-related assistance and adjustment costs associated with EPAs, including technical assistance to enable ACP States to meet EU import regulations and standards and thus fully benefit from improved market access;

16. Stresses that trade rules must be accompanied by an increase in support for trade-related assistance; calls for concrete commitments to be made prior to the conclusion of EPA negotiations, addressing both trade-related assistance and the adjustment costs associated with EPAs, including technical assistance to enable ACP States to meet EU import regulations and standards and thus fully benefit from the improved market ac ...[+++]cess;