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Institutional framework

Labour market policies

Passive labour market policies

Active labour market policies

• Encouraging workers to prolong their working lives.
• Ensuring collective bargaining is sufficiently flexible.
• Making further progress on defining the objective grounds for dismissal and on reducing the uncertainty associated with these processes.
• Allowing for flexibility across firms and sectors if the statutory working week is adjusted.
• Assessing the impact of other potential changes to the elements comprising the institutional framework of the labour market on employment, labour costs and productivity.

• Encouraging workers to prolong their working lives.
• Ensuring collective bargaining is sufficiently flexible.
• Making further progress on defining the objective grounds for dismissal and on reducing the uncertainty associated with these processes.
• Allowing for flexibility across firms and sectors if the statutory working week is adjusted.
• Assessing the impact of other potential changes to the elements comprising the institutional framework of the labour market on employment, labour costs and productivity.

• Strengthening their coordination with active labour market policies so that, together, they ensure that the unemployed are adequately protected, while at the same time encouraging and facilitating their return to the labour market.
• Streamlining and improving the assistance offered by the unemployment protection system.
• Allowing certain benefits/subsidies to be compatible (for part of or their entire duration) with employment.
• Introducing changes to the duration of the benefits/subsidies and/or decreasing their amount over time, without reducing the level of protection ex ante.