Translation of "processus de restructuration de l'emploi " (French → English) :

Creating a European labour market, through enabling workers to take pension and social security entitlements with them when they work in a different Member States and by establishing an optional framework for collective bargaining across frontiers; the Commission will also examine transition periods for workers from new Member States; Getting more people into better jobs, particularly through the European Youth Initiative and supporting women in (re-)entering the labour market; Updating labour law to address needs created by new forms of work, i.e. particular short term contracts; a new health and safety strategy; Managing the process of restructuring th ...[+++]rough the social dialogue.

The Czech government has made provision for the employees hardest hit by the loss of their jobs during the restructuring to receive a special grant.

In 2004-2005, employment is expected to increase moderately in the acceding countries as activity picks up and new activities develop, compensating for jobs lost in the restructuring process.

115. Considers it essential for the reorganisation and modernisation process to continue; recognises, however, that political decision-takers have difficult choices to make because they have to reconcile the demands of workers in danger of losing their jobs on account of restructuring and company closures with the economic viability of sectors as sensitive as steel-making or the mining industry;

Linked to the ongoing process of restructuring, employment is contracting in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia in 2003 and employment creation was relatively low in the other countries, except Slovakia and Lithuania.

3. Points to the lengthy restructuring, involving the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, which the EU steel industry has undergone; expresses its understanding for US steel workers threatened with redundancy, but suggests that their plight can only be effectively addressed by a US government prepared to deal with the problem of legacy costs and to ease the process of restructuring through training and social programmes comparable to those funded by European governments during restructuring; regrets that the US administration has not ...[+++] taken up the EU suggestion of financing such programmes through a levy on all sales of steel on the US market, as an alternative to protectionism;