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Seminar: Flexicurity - State of the Art in European ResearchFAOS, University of Copenhagen
Dr. Hartmut Seifert
Flexicurity: A German Perspective
Copenhagen, June 9, 2006
Dr. Hartmut Seifert2
Forms of flexibility internal external
numerical
Working time accounts Hiring and firing
Working time adjustments Temporary agency workers
introduced to secure jobs Fixed-term employment
functionalFurther training 'Transfergesellschaft'
Work organisation
temporalPetty employment/mini-jobs
Part-time work
wage
Clauses allowing divergence Wage cost subsidies
from collective agreements
Alliances for jobs
Petty employment/mini-jobs
Performance-related pay
Dr. Hartmut Seifert3
Criteria for social security
decent income (above minimum wage)
entitlement to social security benefits
employability/stability of employment
access to further training activities
Dr. Hartmut Seifert4
Components of flexicurity
strengthening of internal flexibility (pacts for employment and competitiveness, working time accounts)
strengthening of functional flexibility (lifelong learning activities, collective agreements on further training)
transitional labour markets (creation and support of transitions between different forms of paid employment and non-working periods
reforms of provision for old age: basic provision