Press Release: Commission presents new measures and identifies key opportunities for EU job-rich recovery

With EU unemployment hitting record levels and forecasts of a grim economic outlook for the months ahead in 2012, the Commission has come forward with a set of concrete measures to boost jobs.

The proposal focuses on the demand-side of job creation, setting out ways for Member States to encourage hiring by reducing taxes on labour or supporting business start-ups more. It also identifies the areas with the biggest job potential for the future: the green economy, health services and ICT. The policy communication underlines the need for a stronger employment and social dimension to EU governance and lays down ways to involve employers' and workers' representatives more in setting EU priorities.

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European Commission: Memo/12/252: Q & A on the new Employment package: Towards a job-rich recovery http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/12/252&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Eurofound: Areas of expertise: Labour market: rds a job-rich recovery, 18 April 2012 http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/labourmarket/jobrichrecovery.htm?utm_source=homepage_bluebox&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=jobrich

European Commission: Memo/12/257: Remarks by Vice-President Rehn on the European Investment Bank's contribution to growth and jobs in the EU http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/12/257&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Memo/12/256: Presentation of Commissioner Andor on Employment Package: Towards a job-rich recovery http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/12/256&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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