During the last cabinet meeting of 2006, the government took note, on December 20th 2006, without giving a judgement, of the final report of evaluation of the laws reforming the labour market (Hartz I-III laws). With approximately 2500 pages, it will be used as a basis for a revision of the various employment policy instruments in force, which is scheduled for spring 2007 by the federal ministry of Work and social Affairs. (Réf. 061297)
This report followed a first study introduced in February 2006 by the coalition government (see story n° 6260). Like in the first version, it draws up a mixed assessment of the first three laws of the reform, conceived by the former government of Gerhard Schröder. Central devices of the reform (promotion of vocational training, help to create company, sanctions in the event of refusal of job offers, etc) contributed to increase the chances of job seekers on the labour market. In addition, the m
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