CEC 2006 Conference in Vienna (Austria)

"Enhancing Managers' Mobility and Employability - Towards a Genuine European Labour Market"

The CEC conference contributed to raising awareness within executives and managerial staff on the key role they play in companies to manage change and make behaviours evolve towards more flexibility and mobility, ensuring at the same time fair working conditions and lifelong learning to reach this goal.

CEC was one of the first European social partners to launch on 5 May 2006 in Vienna an initiative on workers' mobility within the framework of the European Year 2006.

The interest that CEC shows on the question of mobility is due, mostly, to its specificity to represent the managers, and more globally, executives and managerial staff in Europe. In many cases, the mobility of managers is inherent to their function. Nevertheless, in a context of economy and employment fluctuating from one country to another in the European Union, mobility in other professional categories than managers becomes a tool against unemployment and for full employment. Mobility generates flexibility and flexibility supports job creation.

However, there are still numerous restrictions to mobility and the work and contribution of social partners seems therefore necessary.