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Labour Market Activation

Labour Market Activation . Activation in whose interest? Supply of cheap labour Weakening of pay and conditions Key support at time of job loss Assistance into the world of work Skills, experience, development. DSP Review of Employment Support Schemes . Income maintenance Control

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Labour Market Activation

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  1. Labour Market Activation • Activation in whose interest? • Supply of cheap labour • Weakening of pay and conditions • Key support at time of job loss • Assistance into the world of work • Skills, experience, development

  2. DSP Review of Employment Support Schemes • Income maintenance • Control • Activation policy

  3. Four types of activation support • Work programmes • Internships (6/9 months) • Training and Education • Self-employment supports

  4. Market orientation – current and planned • Labour market leverage • Supply – training • Weak e.g.'s, strong e.g.'s • Demand – employment • Weak e.g.'s, strong e.g.'s

  5. Budget 2013 • TÚS + 2500 7500 • JobBridge + 2500 8500 • CE + 2500 • Local Authority SES + 3000

  6. Internship Culture • Broader than DSP focus • Rebranding of unpaid work? • Connection v Ability • Institutionalising inequality • Strike right balance • Balance opposition/hopes and ambitions of young people

  7. 'Unleashing Aspiration' • 2009 British Labour Government report • Fair access to the professions • Internships commonplace • Reviewed in May 2012 • Explosion in previous 3 years

  8. Alan Milburn, Independent Reviewer on Social Mobility and Child Poverty "Work experience and internships are still a lottery even as they become a key part of the formal professional market. They need to be treated as such."

  9. A Common Best Practice Code for High Quality Internships 2011 • Preparation • Recruitment • Induction • Treatment • Supervision and mentoring • Certification, reference and feedback

  10. Work experience • Participation voluntary • Employment rights • Time off to attend job interviews • Modified working time – if part-time work opportunities • Equal benefit to men and women • Freedom to choose and change

  11. TUC Charter • Say No to workfare • Exploits people (by paying less than NMW) • Unfair to other workers (threatens their jobs and pay rates) • Unfair to other businesses (if competitors subsidised by Government)

  12. Youth guarantee • Young people under 25 • Education, training, work placement or other opportunity • Within 4 months of becoming unemployed • Key issue during Irish presidency • Unions can focus pressure on Irish government

  13. Unions can and should ...... • Resist jobs displacement • Oppose exploitative work experience programmes • Continue to explain the importance of Community Employment Schemes

  14. But Unions need to ..... • Decide to be champions of the young and the unemployed • Ally with youth and students to demand and campaign for good internships • Seek joint monitoring role for work programmes/internships (like SES) • offer, in return, to negotiate at company level, placements/opportunities • Advise and support interns

  15. Gain influence over the schemes/policy direction • Become relevant to the next generation!

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