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Summaries of EU Legislation

Youth Guarantee

 

SUMMARY OF:

Recommendation on a bridge to jobs — Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee

WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE RECOMMENDATION?

  • It aims to better support youth employment across the EU through national schemes consisting of measures that provide young people with a path towards a stable labour market integration.
  • It replaces Council recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee.

KEY POINTS

Youth Guarantee

The Youth Guarantee was set up in 2013 to ensure that within 4 months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education, all young people under the age of 25 receive a good-quality offer of:

  • employment;
  • continued education;
  • apprenticeship; or
  • traineeship.

Reinforcing the guarantee

The recommendation reinforces the Youth Guarantee by:

  • reaffirming the commitment of the EU countries to set up national schemes through which young people can receive an offer of employment, education, traineeship or apprenticeship within a period of 4 months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education;
  • extending the age limit for targeted young people from 25 to up to 29 years and providing for better inclusion of persons from vulnerable groups, such as NEETs (not in education, employment or training), young women and people with disabilities.

Guidelines

The Youth Guarantee will be implemented through supportive measures at national, regional and local levels, on the basis of certain guidelines.

  • Mapping: identifying target groups, available services, skills needs and young people at risk of becoming NEET.
  • Outreach: targeted information campaigns among young people and reaching out to NEETs.
  • Preparation: better profiling to match needs and responses, counselling and guidance, and improving digital and other important skills.
  • Offer: employment incentives, quality and equity, and post-placement support.

Cross-cutting enablers

To maximise effectiveness, the recommendation identifies some key factors.

  • Mobilising partnerships: across all levels of government and between Youth Guarantee providers and other interested parties such as employers, education and training institutions, social partners and youth-work services.
  • Improving data collection and monitoring of schemes: encourage the wider sharing of tracking, profiling and follow-up data between Youth Guarantee partners to improve support.
  • Making full and optimum use of funds: this includes:

BACKGROUND

For more information, see:

MAIN DOCUMENT

Council Recommendation of 30 October 2020 on A Bridge to Jobs — Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee and replacing the Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee (OJ C 372, 4.11.2020, pp. 1-9)

RELATED DOCUMENTS

Regulation (EU) 2020/2221 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 December 2020 amending Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 as regards additional resources and implementing arrangements to provide assistance for fostering crisis repair in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its social consequences and for preparing a green, digital and resilient recovery of the economy (REACT-EU) (OJ L 437, 28.12.2020, pp. 30-42)

Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 (OJ L 261I, 14.10.2019, pp. 1-32)

Council Decision (EU) 2019/1181 of 8 July 2019 on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (OJ L 185, 11.7.2019, pp. 44-45)

Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, pp. 10-15)

last update 19.02.2021

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