Policy : Call for a "Youth Jobs Pact" - Global Unions' Statement to the G20 Employment and Labour Ministers' Meeting
Position Paper from the Global Unions to the G20 Employment and Labour Ministers' Meeting, Paris, 26-27 September 2011 - "Support a “Youth Jobs Pact”: Youth unemployment is a critical issue for G20 countries and beyond. Youth unemployment rates, already high, understate the problem as they exclude those discouraged young people who are no longer seeking work. Young people are also over-represented in temporary and other form of precarious work, which no longer provide a pathway to permanent jobs or a source of skills and training for the future. With 45 million young people forecast to enter the labour market every year for the next decade, youth unemployment represents an economic and social threat that the world’s leaders ignore at their peril. The Global Unions are calling on the G20 to respond to this crisis and develop a “Youth Jobs Pact”, building on the ILO’s Global Jobs Pact. At the national level it should be designed and implemented through social dialogue with employers and unions and include: vocational education and training guarantees, whether full-time or associated with employment, which lead to qualifications; apprenticeship and quality internship programmes together with incentives for workers and employers that make them effective; job guarantee schemes; active labour market programmes; and social security safety nets. At the international level Global Unions are calling on the G20 to work with the L20 and the B20, international organisations and the G20 Working Group on Employment and Social Protection to target international effort to support initiatives in priority countries, including Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, as a constructive step towards building cohesion and to demonstrate the workability of the “Youth Jobs Pact”.
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- Global Unions/ ITUC
- Publishing Year
- 2011
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