EU: towards a “restructuring package” under the French presidency

During a short speech, on February 28, 2008, in front of the Group II (employees) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the European Commissioner in charge of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Vladimir Spidla, announced that the European Commission wants to present several initiatives, under the form of a "package", to favor anticipatory management of restructurings. (Ref. 080176)
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A “restructuring package”. The Commission plans on adopting in July – that is under the EU’s French presidency – a restructuring “package” which will include several elements. First, the Commission wants to launch the second phase of consultation of European social partners to incite them to build a partnership to anticipate change and restructurings, modeled after the partnership concluded in the automobile sector on October 17, 2007 (see our dispatch No. 070865). It will also publish an evalu

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