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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in September the Finnish Presidency proposed some Council draft conclusions on decent work. The proposal has now been debated by three Council preparatory bodies, where the discussions have been on social issues, questions relating to trade and questions relating to development cooperation, because decent work is a vital factor in all these three areas of policy.
The Council is expected to adopt its conclusions in December. The Presidency’s draft conclusions consider several matters with reference to the Commission communication on decent work, which the honourable Member mentions. Apart from proposing Council draft conclusions on decent work, the Council, during the Finnish presidential term, has spent a good deal of time and done a lot of work on the proposal for a European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, something that has been examined by the European Parliament. Finland hopes that this will reach a conclusion as soon as possible so that the fund can be used to help employees who are likely to feel the negative impact of globalisation.
At the informal Council meeting of Employment, Social and Health Ministers in Helsinki on 6-8 July, the ministers present discussed how productivity might be improved by developing the quality of working life. They stressed the importance, for example, of the spiral of growth of decent work and labour productivity.
At the sixth ASEM Summit in Helsinki on 10 and 11 September, the Heads of State or Government acknowledged the need to strengthen the social dimension of globalisation and emphasised that productive employment, decent work, the rights of all employees, social welfare and dialogue in the labour market are decisively important for sustainable socio-economic development. ‘Decent work for all’ was also the main theme of the high-level segment of the meeting of the UN’s Economic and Social Council on 3-5 July 2006. The Commission is, moreover, organising a conference on decent work in Brussels on 4-5 December.
The Action Programme for Decent Work covers freely chosen productive employment and a respect for rights at work, as well as labour standards, dialogue between the Social Partners, social security and gender equality. The Programme’s scope is an opportunity for the EU’s institutions, especially the European Council and the Council, as legislators, to examine, and encourage various bodies to examine, the notion of decent work in its entirety, both inside Europe and also in the context of Europe’s trade and development cooperation relations with third countries.
The social dimension of globalisation and decent work are the EU’s priority themes in its efforts to achieve consistency in development policy. When the cash in the European Development Fund is allocated, special attention needs to be paid to several issues, including that of decent work. Considerations relating to certain challenges posed by globalisation were also on the agenda at the Informal Tripartite Social Summit in Lahti in October."@en1
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