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The aim of this working paper is to provide a preliminary assessment of whether the European Green Deal constitutes a suitable policy framework to combine environmental and economic objectives with the pursuit of social fairness, thus ensuring a just transition towards more sustainable economies and societies. Such an assessment appears particularly relevant in a period in which the EU and its Member States are figuring out how to redesign their economies and societies in order to cope with the unprecedented social and economic crisis triggered by the COVID–19 pandemic.

This special issue, the third in a series of Transfer issues on ‘the state of trade unionism in Europe’, examines the international activity of European trade unions. Trade unions in Europe today operate in a complex and multi-layered institutional environment, ranging from the workplace, where the central concern is the representation of members’ interests, through national structures, intent on establishing and maintaining viable industrial relations systems, to regional organisations and international structures, in the form of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European Trade Union Federations (ETUFs). The range of national trade union developments ensures that the affiliates to European-level institutions differ in structure, practice and politics. This special issue is about whether, and how, these differences may be incorporated in a European trade union strategy. read more

This book addresses the impact of new technologies, typically discussed under the heading of Industry 4.0. It focuses in particular on the automotive industry which has been at the forefront of introducing new technologies such as industrial robots. It analyses their impact on working conditions and employment as well as on the role of production sites in the value chain.

The forthcoming Digital Services Act package (DSA) is a legislative initiative to regulate online digital platforms, including online marketplaces, social media platforms, search  engines, video gaming platforms and other information society services and internet service providers.

In this publication, Agneszka Piasna provides a critical assessment on estimating the scale of engagement in platform work in the general population

This paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation.

New #COVID19 impact series Policy Brief about #OSH in the healthcare sector. It is clear that the main focus should be on the prevention of exposure of all health workers to this biological agent. Investment in the care economy is long overdue.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that highly mobile workers who frequently move either within or in and out of the European Union (EU) are irreplaceable during a public health crisis. Nevertheless, they often remain the least protected and most vulnerable.

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