The turbulent international and financial climate we live in continues to throw harsher challenges at us. Living up to these challenges will need a continued strong leadership, and the government's 65 electoral promises linked to creating 'more work, better work' provides a solid platform of commitment to address these challenges pro-actively in very difficult circumstances.
Victims of the global economic crisis, cause us all to worry and lose sleep. I constantly meet people who live in fear of losing their jobs and it is plain to see that their and their family's lives are in turmoil. We need to band together to ensure that these people are given the very best chance of finding new employment quickly, we need to ensure that re-training opportunities are given to those who require it, we need to up our efforts to increase foreign investment and mostly we need to ensure that these people do not have to face these hardships alone.
I believe that an MEP's role in terms of employment should cover two separate aspects, namely:
- Providing a strong voice in the EU institutions to ensure that citizens in the Member States can benefit from the right kind of employment conditions and ensuring the correct implementation of EU programmes such as the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (that provides help in situations when there have been downsizing due to reasons attributed to globalisation with the aim of providing additional support to workers made redundant), and the PROGRESS Programme (that helps national authorities in developing new national programmes to reach the Lisbon Agenda targets).
- And keeping the national government on the right track and at the right pace in ensuring that it lives up to its commitments, and delivers on its promises.
Read my full position on employment at the link below:
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