20th May 2008 - Guidelines for Employment Policies

Delivered by Derek Clark on 20 May 2008

Tags: employment, policies

Speech to Parliament 20th May 2008 Debate: Guidelines for Employment Policies Well, if the Lisbon Strategy is beginning to work why has part-time work risen from 16% to 18% over the last few years? Why has the share of people with involuntary Fixed term Contracts, with no security, reached over 6.5%? The rapporteur admits that EU unemployment was 8.9% in 2005, due to fall to 7.1% this year, but will it?

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