Translation of "Autorités du marché du travail " (French → English) :

38. Stresses the importance of more integrated partnerships and trust between schools, higher education establishments, businesses and other relevant authorities with a view to estimating labour needs for the future, reviewing and implementing new vocational training programmes and fostering cooperation and exchange of good practices between Member States and regional and local authorities, including by monitoring the imbalances on the labour market at regional and local level; recalls that at the same time social responsibility on t ...[+++]he part of all stakeholders is needed, as well as their involvement in further developing monitoring and forecasting tools;

12. Emphasises that adapting education systems and vocational training to the future skill requirements of the labour market is one of the keys to combating youth unemployment, and therefore the transition from school, vocational education and training or higher education to employment must be better prepared and must follow on directly from education or training; takes the view that better cooperation needs to be encouraged between educational establishments, youth organisations, the various labour market sectors and employers, for example with specialists in various fields giving lectures or seminars to familiarise students with their ...[+++] future work; underlines therefore the major importance of implementing effectively the ‘European Youth Guarantee’ initiative and making it an instrument for active integration into the labour market; stresses that Member States have not so far made any convincing commitment to implementing the European Youth Guarantee and calls on them to do so speedily; emphasises that a close link needs to be established between the flagship initiatives which aim at tackling unemployment, such as ‘Youth on the Move’ and the ‘New Skills for New Jobs’ initiative; believes that social partners, business representatives, local and regional authorities, and youth organisations should be involved in the development of a sustainable strategy to reduce youth unemployment, in which there must be EU-wide mutual formal recognition and certification of the skills recognised in formal and informal qualifications – in line with the EU’s EQF system – and acquired in formal, non-formal and informal learning situations;

The Community Labour Force Survey is essentially the first and most authoritative reference source for labour market information in the European Union, and information on wages, as a fundamental variable to explain labour market behaviour, should be a standard element of this survey in order to allow for a more complete analysis of labour markets.

38. Reiterates its call on the Turkish authorities to apply the International Labour Organization's standards for trade union rights, refrain from political interference in the functioning of trade unions, take them into account in the policy-making process and pay special attention to the participation of women in the labour market, and, while welcoming recent successes such as a project in Adana against child labour, calls for the introduction of further legislation prohibiting the employment of children; welcomes the latest assessment by the ILO, which cites Turkey as a successful example in the fight against child labour, and theref ...[+++]ore welcomes the Turkish Government's long-term aim of eradicating the worst forms of child labour by 2012;

38. Reiterates its call on the Turkish authorities to apply the International Labour Organization's standards for trade union rights, refrain from political interference in the functioning of trade unions, take them into account in the policy-making process and pay special attention to the participation of women in the labour market, and, while welcoming recent successes such as a project in Adana against child labour, calls for the introduction of further legislation prohibiting the employment of children; welcomes the latest assessment by the ILO, which cites Turkey as a successful example in the fight against child labour, and theref ...[+++]ore welcomes the Turkish Government's long-term aim of eradicating the worst forms of child labour by 2012;

12. Calls on the Commission to take initiatives aimed at revising the public procurement Directives with a view to incorporating criteria which require the awarding body to fulfil the requirements in the areas covered by ILO Conventions 87, 98 (on the right to belong to a professional organization and the right to sign collective agreements), 29, 105 (rejecting forced labour), 111, 100 (promoting equal pay for equal work and rejecting discrimination), 138 (on child labour) and 94 (on social criteria in public procurement contracts) and in other applicable Community legislation or national legislation/collective agreements; calls for suc ...[+++]h criteria to be worked out in dialogue with the European partners on the labour market;