SEPE Collaboration in Europe

SEPE Collaboration in Europe

One of the principal objectives of Strategic Europe 2020 is to reach an employment level of 75% of the European population between 20 and 64 years of age, with emphasys on creating more jobs for the young. The Public Employment Services (SEPE / INEM in Spain) play a fundamental role in this, according to the European Commission.

From the senior management of national PES two representatives will take a seat on the Board of a European Network of SEP.
This Network should, in addition to the general aspects of geographical mobility, cover a wide range of objectives and initiatives by way of incentive measures designed to improve cooperation between Member States in the field of employment.

The aim of DECISION No 573/2014/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 May 2014 is to encourage cooperation between Member States through the Network in the field of employment, within the areas of PES responsibility, in order to contribute to ‘Europe 2020’ and to the implementation of relevant Union policies, thereby supporting:

(a) the most vulnerable social groups with high unemployment rates, especially older workers and young persons not in
employment, education or training (‘NEETs’);
(b) decent and sustainable work;
(c) the better functioning of the labour markets in the EU;
(d) the identification of skills shortages and the provision of information on their extent and location, as well as the
better matching of the skills of job-seekers with the needs of employers;
(e) the better integration of labour markets;
(f) increased voluntary geographical and occupational mobility on a fair basis to meet specific labour market needs;
(g) the integration of persons excluded from the labour market as part of the combat against social exclusion;
(h) the evaluation and assessment of active labour market initiatives and their effective and efficient implementation.

Now with regards to (f) I think Spain has missed the point here…. by retracting residency for those unemployed that go abroad to look for work for more than 6 months (as announced in December 2013)…

In June 2017 the Commission will be due a progress report on the effectivity of the Network, to be presented to European Parliament. I wonder if Spain´s , in my opinion counter-productive legislature, will be mentioned there.

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