The aim of the report is to achieve job flexibility.

It is right to support the internationalisation of studies together with job flexibility among young workers in an increasingly competitive labour market.

In the end we hired an American to come to our house during the day, severely limiting our job flexibility.

The first relates to the Commission proposal to encourage the creation of common principles to strengthen job flexibility and security.

You are proposing the atypical workers' directive which, instead of promoting job flexibility, will help to kill it off.

They have borrowed Japanese management practices, which emphasize teamwork and job flexibility on the factory floor as a way to improve quality.

Similar to job autonomy, job flexibility is more important than income when evaluating job satisfaction.

A variety of fixtures and exits are available for mounting either directly to the housing or remotely which offers completely job flexibility.

If intolerance of personal needs becomes the norm, the child free may soon find that they, too, have lost job flexibility on needs important to them.

If she wants to attract and keep the best talent, job flexibility and inventiveness will only make her workplace more appealing.

Reduction of working hours without reducing wages, without job flexibility or insecurity, should be the order of the day as we approach the year 2000.

Built-in job flexibility ensures that these standards are always met by on-site staff, irrespective of job titles and responsibilities.

He sees American Standard as more avant-garde than Silicon Valley companies that are long on promises of wealth but short on job flexibility and career counseling.

Consequently, in my opinion, broad guidelines for economic growth and a rise in employment should include measures to render the European market more competitive and increase job flexibility.

Early this year, The Review attracted a great deal of attention with an article that encouraged women to sacrifice career advancement temporarily for greater job flexibility while raising their children.

Job flexibility was an important feature and was intended to reduce demarcation disputes (ie disputes about 'who does what') and add to the smooth running of the plant.

Without a union, the job flexibility can turn into exploitation, he says, and without union access to Magma's books, the workers cannot know whether they are being shortchanged on their bonuses.

"A lot of employees these days are making their own risk-benefit decisions - do I really need benefits or is that as important to me as a higher wage or job flexibility?

The new job flexibility has required a break-up of old trade union structures and attempts to emulate in the UK systems of labour relation based on Japanese and some US examples.

And, he has sought out shorter articles on provocative topics like the "mommy track," which ignited broad debate by arguing that employers should distinguish "true" career women from those who would trade career advancement for greater job flexibility in order to raise families.

To the Editor: James Bovard should have consulted his lawyer before writing "Rigid U.S. Rules Hinder Job Flexibility" (Viewpoints, March 13) because he does not know the first thing about the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The real causes of this situation have been overlooked - the perpetuation of the neoliberal policies the proposed health services directive would intensify, the job flexibility the working time proposals would exacerbate, and the attack on public services and production sectors strategic to development.

Next, the social partners must be given every opportunity to participate in negotiations on job flexibility and job security, on the standardization of working hours, on education, apprenticeship, etc., while at the same time stimulating new initiatives such as small- and medium-sized enterprises, etc..

For example, new car assembly plants (such as Nissan) and electronic goods assembly plants (such as JVC) have been established in the UK by foreign multinationals and employ labour processes based on job flexibility instead of craft demarcation and specialization.

Even though these declarations can be agreed upon in the main, they are at times inconsistent, particularly in their attempts to harmonise increased employment with job development measures, and above all in attempting to reconcile job flexibility with job security, without specifying how this is to be achieved.