Wednesday, February 25, 2009
[IWS] Dublin Foundation: EUROPE IN RECESSION: EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVES AT COMPANY AND MEMBER STATE LEVEL--BACKGROUND PAPER [24 February 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Europe in recession: Employment initiatives at company and Member State level - Background paper [24 February 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0920.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2009/20/en/2/EF0920EN.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]
Author: Foundation
Summary: There are increasingly alarming predictions about the employment impact of the most severe crisis in the developed world economies since the great depression of the 1930s. The ILO predicted in January 2009 that global unemployment could increase by up to 50 million in a worst case scenario. Already, most of the developed world has succumbed to recession. Forecasts for future growth have been repeatedly revised downwards and it is unlikely that the EU economy will begin to recover before late 2009 at the earliest.
Contents
Context
Reduced hours in the auto and steel sectors
Short-time working schemes
Concession bargaining: your wages or your jobs
Recession sabbaticals
Conclusions
References
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Europe in recession: Employment initiatives at company and Member State level - Background paper [24 February 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef0920.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2009/20/en/2/EF0920EN.pdf
[full-text, 10 pages]
Author: Foundation
Summary: There are increasingly alarming predictions about the employment impact of the most severe crisis in the developed world economies since the great depression of the 1930s. The ILO predicted in January 2009 that global unemployment could increase by up to 50 million in a worst case scenario. Already, most of the developed world has succumbed to recession. Forecasts for future growth have been repeatedly revised downwards and it is unlikely that the EU economy will begin to recover before late 2009 at the earliest.
Contents
Context
Reduced hours in the auto and steel sectors
Short-time working schemes
Concession bargaining: your wages or your jobs
Recession sabbaticals
Conclusions
References
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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