AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France,
July 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Final Statement
- 15th Rencontres Économiques
d'Aix-en-Provence
2015
Amid technology, demography and environment shocks, work must
evolve. However, far from vanishing, as some claim, work will
remain, if practiced in decent conditions, a vector of progress,
self-fulfillment and social bonding.
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In Europe, a unified
labour market must be the heart of our political ambition, to
rebalance the single market for goods and capital:
1. Encouraging intra-European mobility, through mutual
recognition of qualifications or coordinated publicity of
vacancies
2. Allow anyone to preserve his/her social safety nets beyond
borders and create a common unemployment insurance in the
Eurozone
3. Make vocational training for the least educated a major
European ambition, by supporting the Erasmus Pro
project
4. Build a single market for the digital economy, to make
Europe a technological
pioneer
5. Coordinate immigration policies in Europe to better attract the best qualified
and integrate the least well trained
In France, we
must build a second chance society, and welcome technological
change and globalization. Everything should be on the table, as
long as we value individual initiatives, rethink our social safety
nets, and develop a representative dialogue within companies:
6. Shift the focus of the « Responsibility
Compact » on low wages to kick-start low-qualification
job creation
7. Ensure purchasing power through a basic income preserving
incentive to take a job. This would imply merging the
« Personal Housing Allocation », the Active
Solidarity Revenue, and the Activity Premium. The counterpart would
be a freeze of the minimum wage, until unemployment falls below a
more acceptable threshold.
8. Create a progressive and protective labour contract, and
secure breakups of the employment relationship by removing the
« serious motive » for a
layoff.
9. Deregulate the most job-creating markets, especially by
opening up closed professions and expanding building
land
10. Structure the market for on-the-job training, to make it
a true « second chance factory », through
the individualisation of the training choice
11. Make company agreements the building block of labour
norms, and allow any worker, even if not unionized, to be the
representative of his fellow workers
12. Build social safety nets adapted to the new
configurations of work in the digital era, through a restructuring
of social security regimes for independents, and an increase in the
sales threshold for the
« self-entrepreneur » status
You will find the full text of the Final Statement
at:
http://lesrencontreseconomiques.fr/2015/declaration-finale-du-cercle-economistes/