Get young people into jobs with a reinforced Youth Guarantee
The Youth Guarantee has helped millions of young Europeans into jobs and training. Now that the Covid-19 crisis is hitting employment hard, the Youth Guarantee can help prevent young people growing up in Europe becoming a ‘lost generation’.
Following a campaign by the Party of European Socialists, the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament, and socialist EU Commissioner László Andor, the EU Youth Guarantee was established in April 2013. More than 16 million young people have entered national Youth Guarantee schemes since 2014 and 10 million of them have taken up an offer of employment, training, an internship or apprenticeship.
The Youth Guarantee scheme aims to ensure that every young person under 30 receives a good-quality offer of a job, training, internship or apprenticeship within four months of registering with a job centre. The Youth Guarantee has helped to reduce youth unemployment and the number of young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs) across Europe. The growing social emergency in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic means we need an even stronger Youth Guarantee to make sure it is up to the new challenges. We must do our utmost to avoid young people becoming trapped in a vicious circle of unpaid traineeships, insecure work or unemployment.