how EU policy may affect policy in the member states

The UK 's Employment Policy in relation to EU (an analysis )Introduction

During the last 20 years the influence of EU on national welfare states has been enormous . It is now clearly acknowledged that the development of social policy has to be aligned to common EU policies . The reason for such alignment is essential because failure in implementing a common policy will not allow the dream of EU integration that has a common set of rules and regulation in all EU states . However integration being a lengthy process full integration is decades away

to have one common policy . It is normal to see the variations in various EU states law and EU law . This will look at the issue of EU employment policy and UK employment policy and how is it influencing the other states

During the 1990 's European countries were facing employment problems The EU commission provided its Member States employment policy known as The Amsterdam Treaty (1997 . The Amsterdam Treaty makes employment policy more important in EU as this policy needs a special method for Member States to succeed in their policy goal . Even though the commission provided a common policy to manage employment issue however each state had its own origin national histories and ideologies , based on which employment policies were developed . It was under these circumstances that difference arises in the EU and UK employment policies

Discussion

The idea of European Employment Strategy (EES ) was formed to pioneer the method of policy making . It was anticipation to the Luxembourg Jobs Summit in November 1997 . EES was meant to significantly increase the employment in EU

It should do the job of motivating EU member states solving their employment problems by stretching objectives in employability entrepreneurship , and adaptability of labour and reach equal opportunities at European labour market level . In 2005 review , European Commission formulated new strategy in achieving EU goals in employment It focused on how employment guidelines will take effect in further years . The member States were advised to apply stability and growth on macroeconomic policy , and manage budgetary policy including better employment conditions

Even though the EU approach towards employment is holistic the UK responded by lowereing the income tax rates to a limited degree during the first years . Similar response also occurred in other EU countries such as France and Spain who made their tax system friendlier . However there are many other issues in UK that vary from EU guidelines , such as the redundancy pay which is lowest in UK in all of EU . Despite the EU legislation UK organization still follow the offer lowest redundancy the reason for which has often been cited cultural and social

In 1999 , UK government launched Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC Together with the National Minimum Wage (NMW , it becomes UK government 's focus of attention . The WFTC improved take home pays for employee with children

The NMW also increased low-paid job 's incentive and attracts workers for remain in the job than depend their life...