(1) Organising transitions in response to restructuring. Study on instruments and schemes of job and professional transition and re-conversion at national, sectoral or regional level in the EU. Eckhard Voss. Wilke, Maack and Partner. In collaboration with Alan Wild, Valeria Pulignano, Ann Kwiatkiewicz and Nicolas Farvaque.
This study is a review of mechanisms, programmes, schemes and funds of support for workers affected by restructuring, which have been set up in parallel or to complement mechanisms provided by public employment services. The focus of the study is on transitions and professional transfers from one job or profession to another, rather than on maintaining employment by means such as short-time working. This study found that there exists a wide range of mechanisms to support professional transition and that these systems are constantly changing — only a very few mechanisms remain constant over time.
(2) Recovering from the crisis. 27 ways of tackling the employment challenge. European Commission. 2009.
This is a review of ways in which each of the 27 EU Member States have tried to increase or maintain employment levels, giving one example from each Member State.
(3) Restructuring in recession — ERM Report 2009. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
This report examines the ways in which companies around the EU have taken initiative to main employment, largely by means of reducing working hours but also by other means, including wage cuts.
(4) Socially responsible restructuring. Effective strategies for supporting redundant workers. Cedefop working paper No 7. 2010.
This report provides evidence of the contribution of career guidance and continuing training in helping to support redundant workers.
(5) Health in Restructuring. Innovative Approaches and Policy Recommendations (HIRES). European Expert Group on Health in Restructuring. Thomas Kieselbach. Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2009.
This report focuses on the health dimension of restructuring, examining the available data for monitoring the forms and effects of restructuring, looking at the effects of restructuring on individual health and organisational performance, examining which EU policies might best guide restructuring to reduce its negative health effects, and looking at how the different groups of actors can best cooperate to maintain organisational, employee and community well-being.
This checklist examines the issues that are relevant for each of the actors involved in restructuring: companies; employee representatives; individual workers; social partners, including sectoral organisations; national authorities; and regional authorities. It states that all actors can play an active role in anticipating and managing change and sets out the key areas of focus and the challenges for each of these actors.
(7) European Restructuring Toolbox. European Commission. Progress project VS/2009/0319. January 2010.
This toolbox consists of a users’ manual, which contains a methods of how to learn from each other in terms of anticipating and managing restructuring. It also contains more than 60 tools that have already been implemented in countries, regions, local labour markets and companies. The users’ manual describes how to use these tools.
(8) 27 national Seminars Anticipating and Managing Restructuring. EU Synthesis Report. September 2010.
This is the final report of a large EU-wide project based on the organisation of national seminars in each of the 27 EU Member States, focusing on best practices in terms of anticipating and managing restructuring.
(9) Toolkits for restructuring based on the innovative actions of European Social Fund Article 6 projects. DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. GHK. December 2009.
This is a practical toolkit intended to help actors to deal with restructuring. It presents a range of actions and success factors for six types of actor in the three main stages of restructuring.
(10) Improving the anticipation and management of restructuring … adding value through social partner engagement. Aritake-Wild. January 2010.
This report was commissioned by the European social partner organisations and looks specifically and exclusively at the role of the social partners at the national, sectoral, regional and enterprise levels in economic restructuring.
(11) Preparatory study for an impact assessment of a European Code of Conduct on Restructuring. Interim report, GHK, September 2010.
The purpose of this report is to examine current company practices in restructuring situations, to ascertain the costs and benefits of introducing European level regulations in this area (either through a Directive or a Commission Recommendation addressed at Member States), and to establish the potential impact on non-binding policy options, ie would companies follow the principles if they are not obliged to do so?
(12) ERM report 2010. Short-time working and temporary lay-off as flexicurity instruments. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
This study looks at the incidence of short-time working across the EU during the current crisis, in addition to temporary lay-offs, within the framework of flexicurity.
(13) Restructuring work and employment in Europe. Managing change in an era of globalisation. Bernard Gazier and Frédéric Bruggeman (eds). Edward Elgar publishing, 2008.
(14) Building anticipation of restructuring in Europe. Marie-Ange Moreau (ed) in collaboration with Serafino Negrelli and Philippe Pochet. Peter Lang 2009.
