EU: interview with Jean-François Lebrun, the head of the unit “working conditions, adjustment to change” at the DG Employment and Social affairs

At the head of the unit "working conditions, adjustment to change" of the European Commission's DG Employment and Social Affaires, Jean-François Lebrun explained e-europnews about the outlines of European policy in terms of restructuring. (Ref. 070732)
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  • What is the unit’s goal?

One of its goals is to give sense to the policy led by the European Commission in terms of restructuring and to show that the Commission intervenes on these problems. The unit, created a year ago, has been operational for six months. We are still in a phase of internal reorganization but things are getting structured. We are making sure that there is a follow up for every “restructuring forum”, a series of conferences which was created in 2005. As part of it, we are al

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