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EFF

ectIve Flexicurity policies in eu countries

AUSTRIA

• new system of severance pay (2003): establishment of a personalized
account held by the worker and financed by the employer. Workers can
draw from this account in case of a dismissal or a change in their job.
They can also transfer their entitlements to their new job

• the Labour Foundations serve as transition agencies to support job-to-job
placement in case of a threat of collective dismissals

• extension of severance pay to self-employed

• possibility to switch temporarily to part-time work for parents with
children under 7 years of age

• special programmes for vulnerable groups (young and older workers,
women, unskilled workers, unemployed)

• extension of SS coverage to those on “free service contracts”

• paid study /training leave for up to 12 months without additional costs for
the employer (covered by UB)

• working time flexibility through collective agreement

BELGIUM

• “time credit” agreement concluded between the social partners in the
private sector, providing greater individual working time

• rules to avoid abuse in the use of successive fixed-term employment
contracts (in certain sectors)

• establishment of “training centres”at the company level

DENMARK

•   the “golden triangle”= flexible contractual arrangements, extensive active

labour market policies and generous social security and welfare systems

• the LLL system is well developed: a high proportion of employees receive
further training

• employees are entitled to at least 14 days of further training annually

• subsidised jobs for the unemployed and assistance in job search

• high UB (90% for lower incomes, up to 4 years) for those actively looking
for a job

• the job rotation system stimulates the development of skills

ESTONIA

• new employment initiatives for people with disabilities (personalized job
search plan, adaptation of workplace premises and equipment to their
needs, assistance with job interviews)

FRANCE

•   2008 national cross-industry agreement introduces new way of

terminating employment contracts, through negotiated agreement

• a “contrat de transition professionnelle”(CTP) is offered to workers made
redundant for economic reasons; the 12-month long contract provides the
jobseeker with training, while paying him/her 80% of the previous salary
received

• individual right to training enhanced through new agreement on
vocational guidance and skills management