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GREEN PAPER : Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century

Tuesday 4 December 2007, by European Commission

The purpose of the paper is to launch a public debate on how labour law can evolue, in order to support the strategy defined at the EU summit of Lisbon in 2000. This policy already impulsed the national laws, as seen in Germany with the «Hartz 4» law or the british workfare programmes. The paper describes several new forms or perspectives of labour flexibility and security («flexicurity»).

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