Unions are threatening to boycott this year's main social meeting, a summit on involvement in the labour market planned for June 27. This reaction follows the government's announcement, on June 19, after years of procrastination, that a suppling up of the law on layoffs could be negotiated during this summit. (Ref. 070553)
Piet Hein Donner, the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, is ready to yield to one of the main managerial claims, in exchange for a tight commitment of employers to integrate 200.000 people on the labour market by 2011. The government is trying to make good use of a full-employment situation, since unemployment fell down to 4.7% in May, its lowest level since 2003. The executive also wants to reduce public expenses, and offers to shorten the length of unemployment compensation, which already
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