Social Policy Strategies, Between Flexisecurity and Mobication on the European Union Labour Market

• Author: Razvan Radu Popescu
• Position: Associate Professor, PhD, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
• Pages: 77-86

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Social Policy Strategies, Between

Flexisecurity and Mobication on the

European Union Labour Market

Răzvan Radu POPESCU1

Abstract: Objectives: Flexicurity should reduce the difference between employed people and people

belonging to excluded categories. An essential objective is represented by the transition from the

concept of flexicurity to the new strategy of mobication. Not least, EU needs to find the tools to

implement this new strategy Prior Work: This change of perspective at the national level makes the

object of this article. Currently employed people need assistance in order to be prepared and p rotected

during the transition from one workplace to another. Results: Those who belong to currently

excluded categories – including those who are unemployed, among which women, young people and

immigrants predominate – need readily accessible ways to a workplace and starting grounds in order

to allow for the progress towards stable contractual provisions. Value: We th ink this article is an

important step in the d isclosure of the problem eraised by this two concepts – both parts of the social

policy made by the EU.

Keywords: modern labour; flexibility; technological progress; security; models

1. The Evolution of the Concept of Flexisecurity

In year 2006, the European Union Commission launched for public debate the

Green Paper called “Modernizing labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st

century”. Subsequently, it subjected to debate a document associated to the Green

Paper, referring to the notion of flexisecurity2.

1Associate Professor, PhD, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest,

Romania. Address: 6, Povernei Str., District 1, Bucharest, Romania, Tel.: (4 0) (021)318.08.97, (40)

(021)318.08.98. Corresponding author: radupopescu77@yahoo.com.

2The conc ept emerged i nitially in th e Netherlands , being accept ed for use in De nmark and

Austria , with remarkable results. In realit y, we ar e speakin g of a strategy that combines a flexible

labour market, characterized by relatively low social pro tection in case of dismissal, with a solid

social protection, with generous unemployment allowances, in order to reduce as much as possib le

the negative impact of changing from one job to the other, together with a pro-active training policy

which to cover this period between two jobs.

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