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Socially responsible restructuring
Effective strategies for supporting redundant workers

External adjustment – labour resourcing methods focusing on shedding ‘surplus’
labour which, for permanent employees, have traditionally included some form of
downsizing, outplacement, mediated job brokerage, career development at work.

Guidance – see career guidance.

Internal adjustment – training, leave schemes, work-time adjustments.

Information advice and guidance – see career guidance.

Job-brokerage – mediated services usually through public employment services
or other professional or para-professional support which supports individuals in
locating, accessing and applying for specific employment opportunities or
vacancies in the labour market.

Job-displacement – the compound employment effects of restructuring at
enterprise level which go beyond a reduced workforce in the company initiating
these (redundancy and job losses among non-permanent personnel), to include
job losses among sub-contractors, suppliers and others, not specifically within
the local economy.

Labour resourcing – the collective term used to describe the strategy and
practices which underpin enterprise-level recruitment and selection, allocations,
organisation, role and skill combinations or white and blue-collar personnel.

Lay-offs – a collective term used to encompass both voluntary and compulsory
redundancies for permanent employees and job-losses for non-permanent (e.g.
casual staff) due to restructuring, closure or other downsizing initiatives.

Non-permanent employees – employees holding short-term or fixed term
contracts of employment or engaged at the workplace through other contracting
arrangements limiting employment rights such as sub-contractors, casual staff,
agency or bank staff and others.

OECD – Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development

Out-placement – guidance related services offered on a collective or individual
basis to support individual assessment and decision making on alternative
external employment and career management.

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