more particularly australia could borrow ideas from a number of countries on how to reach workers retrenched individually or from smaller firms better and earlier box the programme lasts up to months and includes a range of measures aimed at improving reemployment prospects such as jobsearch assistance intensive counselling meeting a caseworker skills evaluation access to training and followup support the cost of the programme is shared between the public employment service the employer and the employee providing incentives for all actors to facilitate cooperation the employer must offer the csp to all workers they plan to dismiss before actual dismissal takes place and is subject to a significant fine in case of noncompliance