Translation of "emploi du secteur privé " (French → English) :

16. Draws the attention of the Member States and the Commission to the fact that after 2020, even though there will be fewer and fewer people of working age, active inclusion policies will nonetheless be needed for these people, and that there will be ever-greater competition for jobs, while the private sector will provide fewer and fewer jobs for those who are currently relatively low-skilled; recalls that even in some of the most affluent Member States (e.g. Denmark and Luxembourg), long-term unemployment is increasing alarming (nearly 12 million people in the EU are classified as long-term ...[+++]unemployed, representing 5 % of the workforce, and 59 % of them have been out of work for two years); calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to seek practical, bridging employment solutions for particularly low-skilled and unskilled workers and/or to help them find work again, which will necessitate a new approach, together with not only long-term strategies but also short-term measures, such as forms of income support, to prevent the social exclusion of the most disadvantaged groups, and the adjustment of existing tools such as the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the ESF in order to prevent permanent long-term unemployment, a recurrence of the recent population outflow towards more developed regions, in particular of people above the age of 50 and young people, and a lasting increase in that outflow; calls on the Commission to measure the accessibility of private-sector jobs for particularly low-skilled workers, and to establish which new jobs not requiring any qualifications could be created in the short term until 2020;

There needs to be a special effort to promote the development of SMEs, a major source of economic growth and job creation in the Union, accounting for more than 67 % of private sector jobs and providing more than 58 % of total turnover in the EU.

8. Supports the idea that entrepreneurship, business-start-ups and self-employment should be promoted as a means of creating more jobs, in particular since SMEs and microenterprises provide over two thirds of the EU's private sector jobs, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase investment in these areas, in particular through public procurement and access to finance;

7. Supports the idea that entrepreneurship, business-start-ups and self-employment should be promoted as a means of creating more jobs, in particular since SMEs and microenterprises provide over two thirds of the EU’s private sector jobs, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase investment in these areas, in particular through public procurement and access to finance;

11. Supports policies designed to promote job creation taking into account - as a priority - the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, which provide two thirds of all jobs in the private sector, and takes the view that training mechanisms, to which the private sector should also contribute and which are tailored to their needs, should be created; advocates innovative measures for creating new skills, especially in the context of SMEs;

In the last 12 months, 100 000 private-sector jobs have been lost, and yet you have created 30 000 public-sector jobs.