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Professional mobility (desk research):
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European Commission – DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
A new action plan has been adopted on 25 January 2007, based on the lessons from the previous 2002 Action Plan for Skills and Mobility, the results of the 2006 European Year of Workers Mobility, and on the strong connection between worker mobility and a number of ongoing policy debates, such as flexicurity, lifelong learning, multilingualism and demographic change, the Commission has launched a Job Mobility Action Plan for 2007-2010. The aims of this Action Plan are to:
| • | improve existing legislation and administrative practices regarding worker mobility |
| • | ensure policy support for mobility from authorities at all levels |
| • | reinforce EURES (European Employment Services) as the one-stop instrument to facilitate mobility of workers and their families |
| • | foster awareness of the possibilities and advantages of mobility among the wider public. |
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European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) / European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
The action plan adopted by the Commission on 13 February 2002 aimed at removing obstacles to the mobility of EU workers, both between jobs and between Member States, by 2005. The plan pointed to a series of actions essentially based on the upgrading of skills through the use of ICT-based learning systems, in order to keep pace with technological change. Moreover the plan advocates a better access to information on employment and EU-wide definitions of standards and validation of skills, non-formal learning and work-experience. A strong emphasis is put on removing the barriers to geographical mobility: on one hand the Commission recommended that there should be 'effective maintenance' of social security rights for workers going to live in a different Member State. On the other hand, all schoolchildren should learn two European foreign languages and all those in higher education should have the opportunity to spend one-third of their time in another EU Member State, so as to facilitate greater cultural exchange and awareness.
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Professional mobility (best practices):
Professional mobility is at the heart of the project: How to promote mobility? Which are the tools, instruments to be created?
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Mobility Centers: (KC handel): Enable direct exchange of employees between enterprises.
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In France: Prêt de main d'oeuvre and Groupements d'employeurs are equivalent to Mobility Centers, it could be interesting to compare both of them.
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SERVEF: Wage of Insertion Programme: it is a new action (2009), which aims at facilitating the functional mobility of the workers through helps for trainings in a new sector of activity and to complement the initial wage (which can be lower than the wage in the sector of origin)
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