The OGB-L trade union confederation and the ASJ youth action group have launched a project setting up "Centres for Local Initiative and Management" (CIGL), aimed at helping unemployed people get back onto the labour market. The first CIGL, which started operation in September 1997, is providing 30 local unemployed people with training and temporary work.
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The OGB-L trade union confederation and the ASJ youth action group have launched a project setting up "Centres for Local Initiative and Management" (CIGL), aimed at helping unemployed people get back onto the labour market. The first CIGL, which started operation in September 1997, is providing 30 local unemployed people with training and temporary work.
The OGB-L trade union confederation initially proposed collaborating with Social Action for Youth (Action sociale pour Jeunes, ASJ) in April 1992 with a view to establishing a "pool" of jobs. This led to a study entitled Objectif plein emploi(Objective full employment) whose main objective was to tackle unemployment through local initiatives.
These two organisations have now founded a regional organisation called the Intercommunal Committee for Development and Employment (Comité Intercommunal pour le Développement et l'Emploi); this aims to bring together the main actors in politics, the economy, trade unions and associations in order to tackle unemployment through concrete projects. The committee has recruited staff to support, manage and coordinate these projects.
The initiative has resulted in recent months in the establishment of a number of Centres for Local Initiative and Management (Centres d'Initiative et de Gestion Locaux, CIGL s) in various communes in the south of Luxembourg, following the official presentation of the project by the Minister of Labour and Employment. In the meantime, the project has been accredited as a Territorial Employment Pact and a "confidence pact for employment" subsidised by the European Union and the Luxembourg Government.
The aim is to provide job-seekers with work, basic training and supervision, and at the same time give them the wherewithal to rejoin the normal labour market as soon as possible by putting them in touch with the Employment Administration (Administration de l'Emploi) and potential employers.
The first initiative got off the ground on 29 September 1997 in Rumelange, a town of 4,100 inhabitants. Here, 30 of the town's 72 unemployed workers have just been contracted, following an initial training period, to work for local firms on demolishing a large hall and then building a public car park.
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