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in the development of better social, employment and
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European Foundation
for the Improvement of
Living and Working Conditions
The tripartite EU agency providing knowledge to assist
in the development of better social, employment and
work-related policies
Eurofound's EU PolicyWatch collates information on the responses of government and social partners to the COVID-19 crisis, the war in Ukraine, rising inflation, as well as gathering examples of company practices aimed at mitigating the social and economic impacts.
Since 2011, the Restructuring Support Instruments database has been collating information on measures which assist companies and workers in anticipating and managing restructuring. Domestic support instruments are collected from the European Union Member States and Norway.
The support instruments are described in terms of their characteristics, involved actors, funding sources, strengths, weaknesses and outcomes. The aim of this database is to inform governments, social partners and other stakeholders on country-level support instruments which have been implemented to anticipate and manage restructuring events.
This part of the database was part of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM).
The EU PolicyWatch database currently contains 311 restructuring support instruments.
Support instruments are grouped into one of eight categories. Each category has corresponding sub-categories to further refine and understand the purpose of a restructuring support instrument.
Out of the EU27 and Norway, 28% of measures (87 in total) feature Reorientation of business activities as the most common category for restructuring support instruments. The most frequent sub-category is Active labour market policies (enhancing employability, training, subsidised job creation, etc.).
An overview of social partners’ and goverments’ involvement in funding measures to support companies and affected employees in the anticipation and management of restructuring.
Note: As one policy measure can have multiple sources of funding, the figures in the graph can add up to more than the total measures in Restructuring support instruments.
Out of the 311 instruments where the national government is part of a funding group, 96 are funded only by the government. This makes national governments the largest domestic funder of restructuring support instruments in the database.
Note: As one policy measure can have multiple sources of funding, the figures in the graph can add up to more than the total measures in Restructuring support instruments.
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