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Social-political raotivatlon for employment creation measures is generally rejected, for the business associations feel that only profit-oriented businesses, rather than public services, can generate the lnvestment requlred to create secure and productive jobs. Apart from the view that too much In public funds is contributed to state-owned. companies and public servlces at the expense of the private sector, it is also postulated that an expanding non-profit sector is incompatible with a market economy, and that the Minister of Social Affairs pursues not only a pro-employment policy but also an anti-market policy. It is further felt that the support of "self-help" facilities has created a broad ideological field for testing the viabilitiy of anti-market economy models on the expense of soclety as a whole.

The positlon of the unions toward unconventional employment programmes is also rather reserved. They point out the danger of self-exploitation (for example, in the form of unpaid overtime) which is often accepted by employee-managed companies during an expansion phase in order to maintain their own jobs and to be able to compete with privately capitalised companies.

Employee representatives fear that a disregard for the collective bargaining agreements could develop into an instrument for weakenlng the labour regułations in the private sector, and they see the current debate over "self-help" facilities, in which conservative voices are clearly heard, as a confirmation of their fears.