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Memorandum of Understanding on Specific Economic Policy ConditionalityGovernment. The exercise also includes the legal framework for temporary work agencies' activity toseek ways of fostering job creation, responding also to the needs and preferences of user undertakingand employees. The Government will also compile the existing legislation relevant for labour andindustrial relations in a single code.In this light, the Government:1. Introduces administrative changes, in consultation with social partners, on the frameworkfor collective dismissals (April 2014).2. Undertakes an assessment, in consultation with the EC/ECB/IMF and the ILO, on whetherthe collective dismissal system replicates best practices in an effective, credible, and durableway (September 2014).3. Based on that assessment, in case of doubt, it takes appropriate legislative action to align theframework with best practices (October 2014).4. Revises the framework for employment through temporary work agencies, notably bysubstantially broadening the types of work, positions and contracts for which hiring throughtemporary work agencies is possible; reducing restrictions on hiring via temporary workagencies following redundancies for economic reasons (from 6 to 3 months for individualredundancies, and from 12 to 6 months for collective dismissals) (April 2014).5. To safeguard the right to work, promote constructive relations among parties to industrialrelations, and avoid any undue disruption of the operations of firms, and at the same timeensure that the framework for unions’ operations is mature and aligned with internationalconventions:i. Reviews the existing framework against best practices (June 2014).ii.After consultations with social partners prepares the necessary legislative changesto bring the Greek framework in line with best practices, and in full respect of theapplicable international conventions, by September 2014.iii. Adopts those changes by October 2014.6. Sets a roadmap for the codification of all existing legislation relevant for labour andindustrial relations into a single Labour Code (June 2014).7. Completes the codification of all existing legislation relevant for labour and industrialrelations into a single Labour Code (December 2014).4.4. Expanding and upgrading vocational education and apprenticeshipsIn order to sustainably increase the level of skills and the employability of entrants to the labourmarket, to facilitate mobility of workers and to attract new investment, the Government will ensure themodernisation of vocational education and training (VET) and the increase in the provision ofapprenticeships to implement Law 4186/2013 of September 2013.1. The Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Education with OAED, building on the VETRoadmap, adopt a detailed implementation plan for the modernisation and expansion ofvocational education and training and the provision of apprenticeships (April 2014). Theimplementation plan will contain key milestones including inter alia:i. The development of a quality framework for vocational education andapprenticeships by June 2014. This will include concrete proposals to establish aquality framework, in line with the European Quality Assurance ReferenceFramework for VET (EQAVET) and best practices at European level, on the basisof the occupational profiles defined by EOPPEP; the development of a certificationscheme for businesses offering apprenticeships with associated supervision and193