Proposal of the EU Joint Employment Report

Europe has to return to the principle of flexicurity.

An integral part of the package of documents published recently in Brussels together with the Annual Growth Survey is a proposal of the Joint Employment Report (JER) that presents an overview of the key factors of development in the employment and social affaires field in the EU.

The situation on the labour markets improves, the employment rises in almost all the member countries, the unemployment decreases, the household income increases with the economic recovery, the number of people threatened by poverty has stabilized. Since 2010, the spending on education raised 3,2 percent in the Europe as a whole.

Europe has to return to the principle of flexicurity, ie. to strike a balance between flexibility and labour market protection. The tax systems have to stimulate people’s activation and, in the meantime, to reduce the taxation of labour and enable to the employers to recruit especially young people and long term unemployed persons. The driving force of the job creation remain the small and medium-sized companies.

The Czech Republic represents an EU average in this respect. It is positively evaluated as for the low rate of risk and social poverty, reforms of the health care, strategy supporting the Roma community and support measures for the families with children.

Joint Report on Employment