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policies and interventions
conditions need to be met in order to draw the full benefits of flexicurity. these include a stable macro-economic climate,
real social dialogue, and a high level of social protection and activity. the term has raised concerns among citizens, unions
and workers’ representatives, who often perceive it as a means of allowing firms to get rid of staff more easily without any
measures for the workers. indeed, entrepreneurial organisation and proposals made by liberal parties put too much
emphasis on flexibility and not enough on job security to create jobs, on the basis that a job is the best safeguard against
social exclusion.
references
Madsen, p. K. (1999). Denmark: flexibility, security and labour market success. I.L.O., Employment and Training Papers, 53.
geneva: international labour office.
Madsen, p. K. (2000). The Danish model of flexicurity: A paradise with some snakes. retrieved February 25, 2009, from
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/employment/documents/madsen.pdf
Wilthagen, t., & rogowski, r. (2002). legal regulation of transitional labour markets. in g. schmid & b. gazier, The
dynamics of full-employment: Social integration through transitional labour markets. cheltenham, UK: edwards elgar.
Working conditions (different types of actions to modify
working conditions themselves, health-related material
hazards in the workplace, behaviour changes and
psychosocial factors)
entry point c covers policy interventions that aim to improve
working conditions by decreasing the risk posed by unhealthy
behavioural changes, material hazards in the workplace, and
psychosocial forces. in other words, it is assumed that changes in
working conditions will ameliorate health inequalities via these
different mechanisms.
regarding the effect on health of unhealthy behaviour and
material hazards, there is evidence that job strain and an imbalance
between effort and reward are exacerbated
in the case of many (though not all)
precarious workers. This trend implies a
need for policy interventions which reshape
the parameters of job demands, control
and reward (sheeran & silverman, 2003;
o’rourke & Garrett, 2003). poor working
conditions often force workers to adopt
detrimental behavioural patterns, such as
consistently working long hours, which
results in insufficient sleep, poor diet,
fatigue, and poorer educational
performance among children and student
workers, and drug use among poorly paid
workers. some critics of this approach
argue that the lifestyle perspective focuses
on individual responsibility for protecting
konso women are known in Ethiopia for their abilities transporting
large packages of enormous volume and weight on their backs. This
young woman is returning from a hard day of work at a sugar
plantation. outskirts of konso (Ethiopia).
source: gabriel brau (2007)
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