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Socially responsible restructuring
Effective strategies for supporting redundant workers

and tasters to allow individuals to test out their potential choices more
robustly. Effective practice here includes advisers identifying the
organisation that can best assist individuals, such as the PES; employment
and recruitment agencies; and Internet job-sites, including for those able to
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consider work in other Member States, EURES, the job mobility portal ( ).
Looking across the evidence, it would seem that innovation in these
circumstances means ‘choreographing’ available help so that it is available
at the right time, and in the right form, to help the individual concerned.
Importantly, evidence from the case studies and elsewhere would indicate that
individual needs and priorities can change during the course of a career guidance
support programme which, in some of the best-resourced cases, can last for a
year or more. For example, individuals at first might have thought to continue
working in an area where they had experience, such as unskilled work. However,
at a later stage, they might find that it was necessary to retrain. Consequently,
best practice would suggest that they require both continuity of support over this
period and the facility to access help to consider their revised needs. To evidence
this in practice, and in detail over a period, would require systematic case study
work which was not within the brief of this research and which was not found in
existing literature.

3.2. Aiding access for all to guidance services

Individuals whose jobs are being made redundant are likely to need access to
support services, although their needs will vary considerably. The guidance
Resolution (Council of the EU, 2008) encourages Members States to make a
range of easily accessible services available, especially for the most
disadvantaged groups and those with special needs. These services consist of
differentiation in career guidance support, specific actions for vulnerable workers,
and support services beyond company employees, to cover family members and
employees of SMEs that provide supplies to bigger companies under
restructuring.
Evidence is drawn from the case studies and from wider sources, to set the
evidence-based findings from the case studies in a wider context.

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( ) See: http://ec.europa.eu/eures/home.jsp?lang=en [cited 10.5.2010].

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