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Response measures to the energy crisis

Short and medium-term sectoral employment

How to counter exclusionary far right politics

Exercising workers rights in algorithmic management systems

Social insurance for mobile construction workers

Still in the background or truly involved?

Friday on my mind: working time in the manufacturing sector

Were national response measures to the energy crisis targeted, and were they social and climate friendly?

These are the main questions addressed by this book, which examines whether and how short-term national responses to the cost of energy crisis applied social and ecological preferences.

Mesures de réponse à la crise énergétique : ciblage des politiques et compromis climatiques

This report provides new projections, to 2026, of remote work rates and the accompanying macroeconomic implications for the EU27, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Republic of North Macedonia, Turkey and the UK.

Remote work covers a range of practices but few are straightforward to quantify consistently. The definition of remote work used in this report is working from home (WFH), matching the Eurostat Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) definition.

Emploi sectoriel à court et moyen terme

Far right political parties have been on the rise across Europe since the 1980s, with a sharp uptick since the 2000s. These parties represent a threat to democratic stability, social cohesion and multiculturalism, economic growth and security, as well as efforts to address climate change.

Comment contrer les politiques d'exclusion de l'extrême droite par un programme progressiste d'inclusion en matière d'égalité ?

With the Platform Work Directive still under negotiation and the ETUC calling for an EU Directive on Algorithmic Systems at Work, groundbreaking research into the Spanish-Italian Glovo-Foodinho firm, a digital labour platform, has opened up an alternative path for workers wanting to scrutinize application and access their rights in digitalised workplaces, governed by algorithmic management. This involves closed cooperation between trade unions, reverse engineering and Data protection authorities (DPA).

Exercer les droits des travailleurs dans les systèmes de gestion algorithmique

Current social security coordination arrangements in the EU do not address the needs of mobile construction workers adequately because: (i) they depend on employers’ capacity and willingness to comply actively with regulations; and (ii) EU social welfare systems are designed with national labour markets in mind and take transnational work into account only as an afterthought. The existing coordination arrangements, as we found from our interviews with mobile construction workers and industry stakeholders, do not function well (or at all) when employers do not take an active role in ensuring that their mobile employees are covered.

Assurance sociale pour les travailleurs mobiles du bâtiment

Meaningful involvement of domestic stakeholders in the implementation of the national Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRPs) is key to ensuring the legitimacy of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

This policy brief investigates national trade unions’ involvement in the implementation of the RRPs in seven EU countries: Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia and Spain.

Toujours à l'arrière-plan ou vraiment impliqué

The twin digital and green transition will have far-reaching labour market consequences in the manufacturing sector as regards the quantity, character and quality of employment. The effects of transition will be uneven between countries and regions, different industries and different categories of workers, depending on their various socio-economic starting points and the different degrees to which they are affected by the twin transition.

Friday on my mind - Le temps de travail dans le secteur manufacturier

Compétences vertes pour les syndicalistes : une approche basée sur des cas concrets

Uniquement disponible en anglais The importance of education in promoting sustainable development has been widely recognised by the international education community. Crucial to enabling individuals to confront new challenges, education thus plays a vital role in achieving sustainable development. It provides people with the necessary knowledge... Lire plus

Jane Pillinger

La directive sur la transparence des rémunérations

Uniquement disponible en anglais Key points • Collective bargaining has a critical role to play in closing and tackling the structural causes of the gender pay gap. • The Pay Transparency Directive contains new possibilities for trade unions and employers to use hypothetical comparisons in addressing the undervaluing of jobs predominantly carried... Lire plus

Sara Lafuente

La transnationalisation discrète de la représentation des salariés au sein des conseils d'administration dans les législations et pratiques nationales

Uniquement disponible en anglais Board-level employee representation rights are far from harmonised at the level of the European Union. Yet, beyond some limited cases of Europeanisation taking root in EU secondary law (i.e. the European Company Directive (Societas Europaea) and other corporate law instruments taking this framework as a reference)... Lire plus

Nicola Countouris, Agnieszka Piasna, Sotiria Theodoropoulou, ...

Benchmarking Working Europe 2023

Uniquement disponible en anglais The central questions and main contextual background explored by this year’s issue of Benchmarking are, at their core, fairly straightforward. Europe is at a crossroads, painfully navigating four transitions at once: a (perhaps less than obvious) economic policy transition best exemplified by the debates surrounding... Lire plus

Insa Backhaus, Krisztina Gero, Nico Dragano, ...

Inégalités de santé liées aux conditions psychosociales de travail en Europe

Uniquement disponible en anglais This report presents results on psychosocial working conditions and health inequalities using data from the 2010 and 2015 European Working Conditions Surveys and the second wave of the 2020 Living, Working and Covid-19 survey. In brief, mean WHO-5 mental health scores declined between 2010 and 2020, indicating an... Lire plus

Vladimir Bogoeski, Zane Rasnača, Elisabeth Brameshuber, ...

Rapport sur les droits à la sécurité sociale des travailleurs migrants de courte durée ressortissants de pays tiers

Uniquement disponible en anglais This report provides an overview of the ways in which EU and EEA Member States have regulated their social security frameworks in relation to short-term third-country national (TCN) migrant workers. It presents the result of an extensive mapping exercise carried out in 24 EU Member States, as well as Iceland and... Lire plus

Nicola Countouris, Valerio De Stefano, Agnieszka Piasna, ...

L'avenir du télétravail

Uniquement disponible en anglais Debates on the future of work have taken a more fundamental turn in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Early in 2020, when large sections of the workforce were prevented from coming to their usual places of work, remote work became the only way for many to continue to perform their professions. What had been a... Lire plus

Tommaso Pardi

Des voitures plus lourdes, plus rapides et moins abordables

Uniquement disponible en anglais Between 1990 and 2019, the European transport sector was expected to reduce its CO 2 emissions by 40 per cent to keep track with the 100 per cent CO 2 reduction target on the 1990 level set by the European Commission for 2050. But, in fact, the transport sector has increased its CO 2 emissions by 32 per cent during... Lire plus

Bart Vanhercke, Sebastiano Sabato, Slavina Spasova, ...

Bilan social de l’Union européenne 2022

Au début de l’année 2022, les espoirs étaient grands de voir refluer la pandémie de Covid-19, l’Union européenne (UE) allait être en mesure de se concentrer à nouveau sur le principal défi de ce siècle : comment aborder la transition verte et numérique d’une manière proactive, socialement équitable et inclusive ? Mais l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la... Lire plus