ROUND TABLE on FLEXICURITY
Global Work and Employment Project (GWEp)
Middlesex University
At the end of last year the European Union Council of Ministers adopted a common set of principles on Flexicurity. The common principles are based on four components:
* Effective labour market policies
* Flexible and reliable contractual arrangements
* Comprehensive lifelong learning strategies
* Modern and adequate social protection systems
Member States are invited to implement this flexicurity approach at national level and to report to the Commission as part of the new Lisbon Strategy cycle.
But what is Flexicurity in practice? Does it represent a way forward to the ‘high road’ of competitiveness and job security, or is it a further attempt to enforce neo-liberal agendas of worker flexibility? The Global Work and Employment Project (GWEp) at Middlesex University has convened this Round Table to critically explore Flexicurity. The Round Table will be introduced by Professor John Grahl, who is currently researching the concept, and Klaus Draeger, who is Adviser in to La Gauche européenne in the European Parliament.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 4th
6pm
Room G237 (Graduate Building)
Middlesex University Business School
The Burroughs
Hendon
London NW4 4BT
The Business School is ten minutes walk from Hendon Central tube station on the Northern Line (turn right out of the station and then right into The Burroughs).
Refreshments available and all are welcome, but to confirm a place please email Audrey Johnson at [log in to unmask] For further information contact Professor Martin Upchurch at [log in to unmask]
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