Anti-Discrimination Act
Subject of the Policy document
Anti-Discrimination Act
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2008
Reference number Official Gazette 85/08
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_07_85_2728.html
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1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance
Article 8.
This Act shall apply to the conduct of all state bodies, bodies of local and regional self-government units, legal persons vested with public authority, and to the conduct of all legal and natural persons, especially in the following areas:
1. work and working conditions; access to self-employment and occupation, including selection criteria, recruiting and promotion conditions; access to all types of vocational guidance, vocational training, professional improvement and retraining;
2. education, science and sports;
3. social security, including social welfare, pension and health insurance and unemployment insurance;
4. health protection;
5. judiciary and administration;
6. housing;
7. public informing and the media;
8. access to goods and services and their providing;
9. membership and activities in trade unions, civil society organisations, political parties or any other organisations;
10. access to participation in the cultural and artistic creation.
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Flexicurity
Term
Flexicurity
Definition
An integrated strategy for enhancing, at the same time, flexibility and security in the labour market. Flexicurity attempts to reconcile employers' need for a flexible workforce with workers' need for security – confidence that they will not face long periods of unemployment.
Comment
The European Commission in its Employment in Europe 2006 report describes flexicurity as an optimal balance between labour market flexibility and security for employees against labour market risks. The Commission’s interpretation of flexicurity involves replacing the notion of job security, a principle that dominated employment relations until recently, with that of ‘protection of people’. The flexicurity model, first implemented in Denmark by the social democratic Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s, is a combination of easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees). Perceived as a new way of viewing flexibility, flexicurity represents a means whereby employees and companies can better adapt to insecurities associated with global markets.
The EU has identified a set of common flexicurity principles and is exploring how countries can implement them through four components:
• flexible and reliable contractual arrangements;
• comprehensive lifelong learning strategies;
• effective active labour market policies;
• modern social security systems.
See Sutlana (2011) for a discussion of the implications for lifelong guidance of the concept of Flexicurity.
Source
European Commission: European Employment Strategy: What is flexicurity? Available from Internet: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=102&langId=en
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