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Flexicurity. Alternative policy approaches within Europe show employment and social protection policies can support flexibility for firms while ensuring income and broader social security to workers at the societal level. The ILO has responded to the flexibilization debate and concerns by launching a project entitled ‘
flexicurity'. The objective of the project is to develop a set of consensus based employment policies, ensuring a balance between labour market flexibility and employment security in the sub-region. More specifically, this includes enhancing capacity of government and social partners to develop strong expertise on the functioning of the labour market institutions and their impact on the labour market situation as well as policy proposals during national tripartite seminars to identify possible policy choices based on
flexicurity in the process of further institutional reforms, with gender sensitive approach."
(International Labour Organization (ILO),
Balancing flexibility and security in Central and Eastern Europe, visited 2010-08-11)