Integration on the labour market

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Integration onthe labour market
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Danish experiences of the integration project
Vasco da Gama
 

• Objectives for the project
• Language and competence section
• Cooperation of players
• Courses for front staff
• Experiences and conclusions

 

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Danish experiences of the integration project
Vasco da Gama

• A partnership project between the Copenhagen
  Municipality, the Copenhagen employment exchange,
  the employers represented by Horesta and RBF, and
  also the two private consulting firms,
  Facilitate.dk and Oxford Insight

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Objectives for the project

• Develop activities and courses that can promote
  integration in the work place
• Identify of good practice for coordination
  between local and state activities
• Develop better business contacts
• Develop models for coordination between local and
  state initiatives
• Develop a course in communication practice for
  front staff and innovators

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Language andcompetence section

• Over a period of three years, approximately 200
  people have been through the system, none of them
  had permanent association with the labour market
• The majority gained permanent positions and
  approximately 25 were offered a professional
  education

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Cooperation of the players

• The cooperation with the authorities was built on
  conferences with different themes
• The contact between the municipalities and
  integration consultants and also the employment
  exchange
• Gathering experiences from the integration work
  in the municipalities
• Holding conferences which the players, members of
  the Danish Parliament and the press attended

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Courses for front staff

• Modular 1 Discrimination and the fight against
  discrimination
• Modular 2 Intercultural competence
• Modular 3 Is there a particularly ethnic labour
  market?
• Managers seminar Without foundation no change

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Experiencesand conclusions

• The businesses would like to employ migrant
  workers, but they dont know all the rules and
  opportunities there are for receiving help and
  contributions towards mentoring arrangements,
  language courses, skills based education etc.

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Experiencesand conclusions

• The migrant workers should be offered real jobs
  with the same salary and on the same terms as the
  rest of the employees. Shorter introduction
  periods with training and language courses, can
  be arranged. Its an advantage to create
  mentoring arrangements at the work place, so that
  there is always a colleague who can assist with
  advice and guidance

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Experiencesand conclusions

• It is important to hold the political debate in
  your organisation, with your members and not
  least the employees and the elected people in the
  organisation
• We have to be very aware of our roles as front
  staff, meeting the ethnic fellow citizens and
  future colleagues
• We should not be afraid to challenge racist
  remarks when spoken out loud
• We have to tell the good side of story create
  positive role models

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Useful address and link

• www.rbf.dk
• www.3f.dk
• www.udlst.dk
• http//www.nydansker.dk
• http//www.vascodagama.dk
• http//www.labourstart.org/da
• THANK YOU FOR ATTENSION.