Brussels, 23/02/2015 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission proposed on Monday 23 February to release €6 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 2,513 former workers in the road transport sector in France to find new jobs.
The two and half thousand workers were made redundant by the company Mory-Ducros, which operates in a sector that has been hard hit by the global financial and economic crisis, having seen activity fall by 13.7% in the EU and by 21% in France between 2007 and 2012. In a press release, Commissioner Marianne Thyssen (Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility) underlined the importance of helping the lorry drivers and their colleagues who have been made redundant to find new jobs as quickly as possible. “The economic crisis has badly affected the road transport sector” and EU support is now needed to make “the workers' transition to new jobs easier and faster by helping them adapt their skills to the requirements of future employment”, she said. The estimated total cost of this raft of measures is €10 million. The proposal to release €6 million from the EGF will now go to the European Parliament and the Council of the EU for approval. (Jan Kordys)