flexicurity
n. A labour market model that combines flexibility for employers with job security for workers. It is argued that in order to succeed in increasingly global and competitive markets employers need to be able to adapt quickly to meet prevailing economic and market conditions. As a result, employers want to be able to hire and fire staff and to introduce new working practices without facing legal sanctions. Such a shift has been apparent in the growth in the use of temporary and agency workers and the practice of outsourcing. From the worker’s point of view, however, such flexibility for the employer may bring with it a lack of certainty and employment protections, and recent years have seen some attempts to remedy this. Within the European Union, for example, there has been a move to promote flexible working arrangements while guaranteeing consistent levels of protection for workers. The European Commission has defined flexicurity as a strategy that aims simultaneously to enhance the flexibility of labour markets, work organizations, and labour relations on the one hand, while maintaining employment and income security on the other. Similar calls to adopt the so-called Nordic model of flexicurity have been taken up by unions in the UK. See also gig economy

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• The principles of flexicurity, as set out on the website of the European Commission

• security
• Security Council
• security for costs
• security of tenure
• sedition
• seduction
• seisin
• select committee
• self-assessment
• self-build society
• self-defence
• self-determination
• self-employed
• self-executing treaty
• self-help
• seller
• Seller’s Property Information Form
• semble
• semiconductor topography
• semi-secret trust
• sending distressing letters
• sending for trial
• Senior Courts
• Senned Cymru
• sentence