Suchergebnisse

Poor health represents a major factor of exclusion from the labour market due to the influenceit exerts on early retirement. A key issue for policy makers is how to maintain the worker withresidual potentialities in active life and at the same time cope with the difficulties the workerand employer come up with continued presence in the workplace.The aim of this study is to gain an understanding of the barriers but also of the facilitatorsenhancing reintegration outcomes for chronically sick and absent workers. Without such anunderstanding, it is difficult to design and develop appropriate and transferable interventionsand approaches. Cancer is addressed as a specific long-term illness throughout the study, inorder to delimit, and, at the same time, concretise issues and proposals. The study also intendsto highlight the characteristics of national legislations concerning support for workers withlong-term illnesses to regain, where possible, social inclusion and integration in the labourmarket. The different schemes and approaches applied across the Member States are analysedto point out the level and duration of social protection of sick workers as well as how differentcountries support the workers' wages and previous standard of living during and after sickleave. The study also intends to analyse 'return to job' problems, policies and forms ofreintegration of workers.

This study sets out to analyse the social and legal situation of the Roma and the policies of inclusion adopted in the European Countries with particular attention to those fostering accessto the labour market. To address these issues the study outlines the legal and socio-economic condition of the Roma Community across Europe, providing a brief overview of the maincharacteristics of a population composed of sub-communities with some common features butwith different historic and cultural backgrounds. The study focuses more on the differencesbetween the communities than on the similarities. As the aim of the study is to offersuggestions and policy options, it is worth pointing out that policies designed to take thesedifferences into account have better chances of being accepted by the communities, and soproving more effective, than 'generic' polices for 'the Roma'. For example, policiesaddressing isolated and rural communities of illegal Roma have to consider specific issuesdifferent from those for urban Protestant Roma legally resident in the country and vice versa.Specific attention is paid to the legal status of the Roma, as it is highly differentiated acrossthe European Member States and within each country according to the specific group considered.