The Commission will call for further cuts in non-wage costs

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Series Details 11/02/99, Volume 5, Number 06
Publication Date 11/02/1999
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Date: 11/02/1999

to price unskilled workers back into the labour market in a report due to be released by Economics Commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy next week. It urges EU finance ministers to gear their tax and welfare systems towards job creation, and calls for a balance between “adaptability and security” in the jobs market and negotiated schemes to make hours and conditions more flexible.

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