Translation of "Chômeur inadapté au travail " (French → English) :

7. Deplores the persistently high unemployment rates across most Member States, and is concerned by, in particular, the youth and long-term unemployment rates; stresses the need for increased investment alongside reform of national labour markets, and the importance of taking measures to boost the economy in order to increase job creation rates; as well as concentrate on creating quality workplaces; stresses in particular the need to improve national education systems and adapt them to the new skill and knowledge demands on the EU labour market, in particular by adapting the dual-track training ...[+++] model which has proved particularly valuable in combating youth unemployment and including entrepreneurship and skills in school curricula; highlights that this necessitates a specific approach and actions for some population groups, such as younger people, low-skilled unemployed, long-term unemployed, older unemployed and women, who still face constraints as regards their full participation in the labour market; stresses, however, the need to take care to ensure that such an approach does not merely amount in practice to reductions in labour rights and social protection, or to the promotion of precarious forms of employment; calls on the Commission to examine the systems of minimum income mechanisms for the unemployed in Member States;

7. Considers it crucial that any programmes to reintegrate the long-term unemployed be geared to the needs of the labour market and be formulated in close cooperation with the social partners; calls on the Member States to motivate employers, including in a spirit of corporate social responsibility, to engage actively in offering job openings for the long-term unemployed, and, where needed, to appoint mentors to facilitate the smooth reintegration of the long-term unemployed on the work floor; calls for Member States’ employment services to assist SMEs in facilitating such mentoring; recalls that the long‑term unemployed need not only ...[+++] jobs but also comprehensive counselling and preparation for successful re-entry into the labour market;

2. Supports the three main components of the proposal: (i) ambitiously stepping up the registration of the long-term unemployed through an employment service aiming at full coverage; (ii) assessing the individual potential, needs and job preferences of the long‑term unemployed before they reach 18 months of unemployment; and (iii) offering a tailor-made, balanced and comprehensible ‘job integration agreement’ between the long-term unemployed and the services involved, at the latest by the time the person concerned reaches 18 months of unemployment; stresses, however, that an individual assessment should take place before the person re ...[+++]aches 12 months of unemployment, so as to ensure that the job integration agreement can be put in place before they reach 18 months of unemployment; insists that, where applicable, the three-step approach should not fall short in integrating non-state actors, such as social NGOs that work with the long‑term unemployed, into the process as a whole;

- Promoting education and training in entrepreneurial and management skills and providing support, including through training to make entrepreneurship an easier option for all, especially for women and people without employment who are willing to work,

The main labour market problems the Objective 3 programme aims to address are the high rate of unemployment; the danger of exclusion of certain groups (e.g. long-term unemployed, young unemployed, ageing and handicapped people) from the labour market and increasing labour market bottlenecks; a relatively low rate of entrepreneurs; skills shortages concerning especially ageing workers with a low level of education and outdated skills; gender-based segregation in the labour and educational market; need to improve the relationship between research, education/training and working life; and to increase life-long learning opportunities a ...[+++]nd practices.

The main labour market problems the ESF programme aims to address are the high rate of unemployment, the danger of exclusion of certain groups (e.g. long-term unemployed, young unemployed, ageing and handicapped people) from the labour market and increasing labour market bottlenecks.