Action plan against youth unemployment across europe

1. ACTION PLAN AGAINST
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
ACROSS EUROPE
Lerousseau Thomas
Malice Thomas

2.  Employment in Europe
 Youth Employment Package
 Youth Employment Initiative
 Plans taken by …
 Our solutions
TABLE OF CONTENTS

3.  Youth Strategy (2010 – 2018) :
 Youth guarantee
 Youngsters need to have work in 4 months
 EIB (European Investment Bank) is financing this incentive
 Framework for Trainee Programs
 Avoid :
 Low learning abilities
 Bad conditions
 Bad payment
 Alliance for apprenticeship
 Simplify the transitions from school to work
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PAKAGE

4.  Youth Employment Initiative(2014 – 2020) :
 Almost the same as Youth Employment Package
 Youth on the move
 Part of the European strategy
 making education and training more relevant to young
people's needs
 encouraging them to study or train in another country
 encouraging EU countries to take measures simplifying the
transition from education to work
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVE

5.  Portugal
 Change legislation to make it easier to dismiss employees
 « Impulso Jvem », gives incentives, makes internships possible and promotes entrepreneurship
 Germany – Switzerland – Austria
 Valued the alternation and learning program
 Nordic countries
 “Youth guarantee”
 Young aged 18 to 24 years
 Shouldn’t stay more than 6 months without training, internships or subsidized contract
 Netherlands – U.K.
 Culture of “odd jobs”
 60% of 20-24 combine studies and work
 Facilitated by the “young wage” progressive
PLANS TAKEN BY …

6.  Improving the macroeconomic environment to
imply a growth of salaried employment
 Dual system : linking work based training and
apprenticeship, and school based education.
 Wage subsidies and reductions of taxes on hiring
young people
 Make secondary school mandatory not until
eighteen years old, until students have at least a
degree
OUR SOLUTIONS

7.  Revalorise manual jobs
 Older – younger program
 Incentives for trainee programs
OUR SOLUTIONS