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> World
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> 'New start' for EU
> unemployed
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> The 15 EU leaders offering the unemployed a "new start"
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> Leaders of the 15 European Union states have formally
> adopted an ambitious plan to cut unemployment by
> offering a "new start" to jobless young people and the
> long-term unemployed.
>
> Young people would be out of work for no longer than six
> months before being offered either a job,
> work-experience or training, and older people would be
> offered re-training within the first year of unemployment.
>
> I will seriously question this plan. It will introducesocalled
>workfare-jobs on a mass-scale. People will have to work for a
their social benefits and a new cheap resorvoir of workers will come to
the benefit of both public bureaucracies and private companies. The
unions will have no say in these arrangements-thats the experience form
Denmark so far. Inequality at the workplaces will explode as workers
will experience the difference on being employed and being forced to
work for a social benefit.
Without collective aggrements and the right to quit these jobs, human
rights according to ILO Conventions will be threatened.
But it will be a good medicine to manipulate the unemployment statistics
and gather confidence in the crisis-ridden EU-project.
Good wishes for a better future with jobs that deoesn`t degrade
the worker but honour her.
John Graversgaard
labour inspector and psychologist
Aarhus
Denmark
