Employment and human resources are seen as major fields of targeted impacts in the renewed Lisbon strategy of the European Union.

The application of the integrated flexibility and security approach is of substantial significance to diminish the segmentation, to facilitate the mobility of people on the labour market, to encourage the social inclusion, to maintain and create employment. Each of the countries has a national approach developed to face the challenges on the labour market. The exchange of information among partners of the FLEMCEE project will lead to increasing their capacity and set of instruments to improve the single elements of flexibility and security.

The social dialogue development at industrial level shows necessity of introducing new forms of internal flexibility and rules in the place of work adapted to the changing economic reality. The collective agreements are important tools to adjust to particular economic circumstances in specific sectors. This is of high importance in times of crisis and implicates in the establishment of such a system of regulating the labour relations by which the social partners’ role in shaping work standards is growing bigger.