LEADER 04962nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910457830603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a92-2-113848-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065182 035 $a(EBL)797567 035 $a(OCoLC)772844500 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000674060 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11482383 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000674060 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10645569 035 $a(PQKB)10473164 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC797567 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL797567 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10512037 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065182 100 $a20111212d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA guide to worker displacement$b[electronic resource] $esome tools for reducing the impact on workers, communities and enterprises /$fGary B. Hansen 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aGeneva $cSkills and Employability Dept., International Labour Office$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (90 p.) 300 $aOn cover: Update 2009. 311 $a92-2-122103-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright information; Preface; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. Mass layoffs and worker displacement: Overview of the Problems; 1.1 Definitions of terms; 1.2 Extent and impact of worker displacement; 1.3 Overview of worker displacement problems; 1.4 Problems worker displacement creates for communities; 1.5 What communities can do to prevent worker dispalcement or minimize its impact; 2. Organize your community to help employers strengthen their businesses and avert layoffs; 2.1 Restructuring and layoffs: some fallacies of business life 327 $a2.2 Reasons for enterprises to restructure2.3 Community business retention/layoff aversion strategies; 2.4 Organize your community to retain businesses and avert layoffs; 2.5 Steps communities can take and tools that can be used to retain businesses and avert layoffs; 2.6 Steps to start a community business retention/layoff aversion program; ACTION MODULE: Steps to start a community business retention/layoff aversion program; 3. Assess your community's ability to respond quickly and effectively to worker displacement events 327 $a3.1 The importance and role of early warning networks, rapid response and industrial adjustment specialists3.2 Using rapid response worker adjustment programs in North America and Hungary; 3.3 Assess your community's rapid response worker adjustment and economic renewal needs and capacity; ACTION MODULE: Community worker adjustment needs and rapid response readiness checklist; 4. Steps IA Specialists take to set up worker adjustment programs and organize reemployment assistance committees to help displaced workers obtain services and find jobs 327 $a4.1 Role and functions of the reemployment assistance committee (RAC) in worker adjustment programs4.2 Steps IA specialists take to start and manage a worker adjustment program in a community; ACTION MODULE: Steps to start a rapid response worker adjustment program; 5. Set up a worker assistance resource center (WARC) to provide service to dispaced workers; 5.1 Role of the IA specialist and the RAC in setting up a WARC; 5.2 Layout and function of WARCs; 5.3 Worker adjustment services and the WARC; 6. Economic renewal strategies and tools communities can use to preserve and create jobs 327 $a6.1 Community assessment and planning for economic renewal6.2 Using community assessment and planning to facilitate economic renewal in Hungary; 6.3 Should your community undertake economic renewal?; Appendix A: Work-Sharing: An Alternative to Lay Off; Appendix B: Supplementary training modules and resource materials; Appendix C: List of Acronyms; Back cover 330 $aThis guide is an update to the 2001 Guide to worker displacement that was published as a response to the Asian financial crisis. The Guide, drawing on experience primarily in North America and during the transition process in Central and Eastern Europe, explores how enterprises, communities and workers can respond to the financial crisis and how to reduce potential job losses. This includes possible strategies for averting layoffs and promoting business retention by communities, enterprise managements and workers' association. The guide is primarily for use in industrialized and transition cou 606 $aDisplaced workers 606 $aUnemployment 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDisplaced workers. 615 0$aUnemployment. 676 $a300 700 $aHansen$b Gary B$0908814 712 02$aInternational Labour Office.$bSkills and Employability Dept. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457830603321 996 $aA guide to worker displacement$92032659 997 $aUNINA