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

Member States should strengthen active labour-market policies by increasing their effectiveness, targeting, outreach, coverage and interplay with passive measures, accompanied by rights and responsibilities for the unemployed to actively seek work.

Measures in the economic action plan 2013 No. 2, aimed at spurring job creation and economic growth, include extending and expanding the hiring credit for small business, which would benefit an estimated 560,000 employers; increasing and indexing the lifetime capital gains exemption, to make investing in small business more rewarding; expanding the accelerated capital cost allowance to further encourage investments in clean energy generation; and freezing employment insurance premium rates for three years, leaving $660 million in the pockets of job creators and workers in 2014 alone.

On December 8, 2004, a Speaker's ruling in the case of Bill C-278 concluded that a similar extension of benefits for the employment insurance program constituted a new and additional requirement for spending, and therefore required a royal recommendation.

Summary code: Employment and social policy / Job creation measures / Sectoral job creation promotion / Job creation through enterprise policy Enterprise / Industry / Industrial policy and competitiveness Enterprise / International dimension and enlargement / Enlargement

The three priorities of the Swedish presidency are enlargement, employment and the environment.

Given that approximately 500 new posts are likely to be created to cover new tasks, this leaves a further 800 to 1 200 posts to be found in some other way to meet the overall target.