Integration of migrants on the labour market
Joseph Burnotte from the FGTB and CEPAG presents the position of migrants on the labour market and the subsequent ethno-stratification.
Itinera gaat voor een samenleving waar het aangenaam is om te leven, waar frisse, ambitieuze ideeën de kans krijgen uit te groeien tot duurzame ondernemingen, waar onderwijs jongeren klaarstoomt en zin geeft, en waar innovaties transformeren in succesvolle producten in een economie die blijft bloeien.
Joseph Burnotte from the FGTB and CEPAG presents the position of migrants on the labour market and the subsequent ethno-stratification.
Bart Mondelaers from the center of equality of chances and opposition against racism tackles in this article the discriminations which migrant employment seekers can be faced with. This article approaches solutions to remedy these challenges.
In this contribution managing director Fons Leroy of the VDAB deals with the diversity policy of the VDAB, the Flemish Employment Service, and this from the perspective of migrant employment seekers. This contribution provides some critical reflections on the current diversity policy.
Michèle Claus of the VBO/FEB exposes in this contribution the vision of employers on the problem of accessibility of the labour market for migrant workers. This contribution presents the sources of this problem, and touches some areas of reflection for a remedy.
The budget debate in our country confronts us with the need for greater fiscal coordination at European level, the think tank Itinera argues. For Belgium the think tank sees but one good remedy: save on public spending at all levels.
Marc De Vos sees the rhetoric of indignation surrounding company restructuring as little more than dereliction of duty. The decline of our manufacturing is structural and can only be stopped with structural measures. Both the federal and the regional level are in play.
It’s important to consider that the euro crisis still is awaiting fundamental answers. The ECB only bought time. Measures to reduce the fundamental instability of the Western economies are still needed.
Some play out arguments to loosen budget discipline in Belgium. There are however economic and social reasons not to take this risk.