This axis aims to provide fresh opportunities for all jobless persons, including any who abandoned the job market due to a lack of prospects.

MEASURES

Measure 1: Offering jobless persons insertion into the job market.

Any activities in this direction are mainly geared towards adults before they have spent 12 months in unemployment, and for jobless persons in general.

Action taken: Occupational professional training

The action taken consists of occupational training in three areas (staff, social concerns and employment), directed at groups which experience greater difficulties accessing the general job market, normally those with physical handicaps.

Measure 2: Combating long-term employment by employment reinsertion programmes for the long-term unemployed.

Any action taken in connection with this measure is generally directed at the long-term unemployed.

Measure 3: Offering professional employment insertion to young people.

Action taken in connection with this measure is generally directed at young unemployed persons, and basically involves offering employment to this group before they have spent six months in unemployment, measures for professional job insertion and replacing passive measures with active measures.

Action taken: Combined training-employment programme.

This involves job insertion with employment information and guidance, specific training in NICT technology and practice at work centres, as part of a customised jobhunting management scheme based on the initiative taken by the unemployed person.