The Brussels Parliament gave the green light on Wednesday to the cooperation agreement with Flanders to give the capital’s job-seeking inhabitants more job opportunities on the Flemish labour market. PVDA abstained.
The situation is well known: the socio-economic perspectives and the demographic evolution indicate that Flanders will be a region with a permanent labour shortage in the next decade. Brussels, on the other hand, is rejuvenating and will not have enough vacancies in the coming decade to offer work to the new generations.
Brussels therefore has a large pool of labour. “There are almost 90,000 job-seekers in the Region,” says Employment Minister Bernard Clerfayt (Défi). According to him, in 2019 some 57,000 Brussels residents travelled to Flanders every day to work. That is already 30% more than ten years ago (43,000 in 2010). “But that number can still go up.”
Joint recruitment VDAB and Actiris
In concrete terms, this cooperation agreement will improve the automatic exchange of all job offers between Actiris and the VDAB. In the past, only 1,500 job offers per year were passed on from the VDAB to Actiris, and only for low-skilled workers. The VDAB will also introduce a tailor-made training path for job-seekers in Brussels. To this end, both services will carry out joint studies, and they will set up a joint recruitment service.
Als 1 land moeten we als 1 samenwerken. Het is zeer goed dat we de mensen die willen werken aan het werk krijgen!
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The Brussels Parliament gave the green light on Wednesday to the cooperation agreement with Flanders to give the capital’s job-seeking inhabitants more job opportunities on the Flemish labour market. PVDA abstained.
The situation is well known: the socio-economic perspectives and the demographic evolution indicate that Flanders will be a region with a permanent labour shortage in the next decade. Brussels, on the other hand, is rejuvenating and will not have enough vacancies in the coming decade to offer work to the new generations.
Brussels therefore has a large pool of labour. “There are almost 90,000 job-seekers in the Region,” says Employment Minister Bernard Clerfayt (Défi). According to him, in 2019 some 57,000 Brussels residents travelled to Flanders every day to work. That is already 30% more than ten years ago (43,000 in 2010). “But that number can still go up.”
Joint recruitment VDAB and Actiris
In concrete terms, this cooperation agreement will improve the automatic exchange of all job offers between Actiris and the VDAB. In the past, only 1,500 job offers per year were passed on from the VDAB to Actiris, and only for low-skilled workers. The VDAB will also introduce a tailor-made training path for job-seekers in Brussels. To this end, both services will carry out joint studies, and they will set up a joint recruitment service.
Als 1 land moeten we als 1 samenwerken. Het is zeer goed dat we de mensen die willen werken aan het werk krijgen!