Labour, the Family and Social Affairs Minister Marjeta Cotman stressed the importance of flexibility of employers and employees while adding that basic work conditions should also be respected as she met her EU counterparts in Berlin on Friday.
The informal meeting stressed the concept of good work - just wages, protection from risks at jobs, workers' rights, family-friendly employment practices and adequate number of job vacancies - the minister said just prior to signing an agreement on the development of EU social policy with her German and Portuguese counterparts.
The agreement, signed by Cotman, Germany's Franz Muentefering and Portugal's Jose Viera da Silva, takes into account all of the aspects of good work and ways to consider them in the time of globalisation, the minister added.
Cotman added that family-friendly employment, jobs for the young, lifelong learning and demographic policy challenges will form the core of her ministry during Slovenia's stint as EU president in the first half of 2008. Slovenia will be preceded by Germany and Portugal.
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