Translation of "travailleur bien formé " (French → English) :

Moreover, although the numbers of agency workers are relatively modest, the importance of this flexible form of working in the functioning of national labour markets cannot be denied.

Core texts which must be applied for migrants as well as nationals include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol to that Convention, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, Convention on Rights of the Child, the two UN Palermo Protocols on Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the UN Convention against Torture, and the ILO Convention on decent work f ...[+++]or domestic workers.

EU companies therefore need to be adaptable and to employ well-trained staff to compete in a globalised economy.

37. Urges the Member States to take appropriate measures to tackle the low employment rates of older workers, in particular those who have had atypical career paths or lack ICT skills, and to put in place the necessary conditions to provide lifelong learning services at every level to facilitate progress in employment, whether it be first time entry, a return to employment or the wish to prolong working life; considers it no less important to encourage companies, and create incentives to this effect, to employ or appoint older employees for longer, since as a rule they are highly competent, experienced, reliable and highly trained;

We must build a dynamic into the Lisbon process by ensuring that the Stability and Growth Pact actually provides for growth as well as stability, and the best way of doing that is to ensure that there are incentives to invest in what will drive the economy: well-trained, satisfied workers who have good jobs and provide the productivity that we need.

It will occur through a variety of channels including the adoption of labour saving technology as a result of tightening labour markets, the difficulty of ageing workers to adapt to the new requirements of the labour market, changes in the saving rate which in turn would constrain the pace of investment and of the embodiment of innovation into new capital goods [38], a risk for returns of human capital investment to decline in an ageing population, changes in the pace of investment in research [39], technological change and changes in the overall sectoral and geographical mobility as the share of young workers in the workforce declines.