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News story | Date: 24/01/2007 | Last updated: 08/02/2007
The Informal Meeting of the European Ministers for Employment and Social Affairs was held in Berlin 18–20 January 2007. In his speech about "good work", the Norwegian Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion, Mr. Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, emphasized that flexibility is necessary to have a well functioning labour market. But flexibility must not result in too much pressure on the individual worker to work overtime or in “atypical” employment relationships.
Good work
The Informal Meeting of the European Ministers for Employment and Social Affairs was held in Berlin 18–20 January 2007. In his speech about "good work", the Norwegian Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion, Mr. Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, emphasized that flexibility is necessary to have a well functioning labour market. But flexibility must not result in too much pressure on the individual worker to work overtime or in “atypical” employment relationships.
Each Presidency of the European Union invites to an informal meeting of the European Ministers for Employment and Social Affairs. On 1 January Germany took over the Presidency of the European Union for the first half of 2007.
The heading of the meeting was ”Good Work”, which covers a wide variety of subjects. The flexicurity-debate – how to make a flexible working life, combined with social and economical safety – was a central part of the discussions at the meeting.