The eyes of all those concerned with social Europe are now on the high-level summit at the end of this week (7-8 May) in Porto. The Portuguese Presidency is hoping to renew the political and institutional support for the European Pillar of Social Rights, but most of all, to advance its... Find out more

Call for contributions to the special issue of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research ‘From just transition to a new concept of the welfare state’, 3-2022 Editors: Philippe Pochet, Bela Galgoczi Until recent decades, social welfare systems in Europe were disconnected from ecological... Find out more

In the context of the European Green Deal, the EU has undertaken to reduce by half the use of chemical pesticides and the risks associated with them by 2030. Frans Timmermans, executive vice-president of the European Commission, stresses that the Green Deal measures “point to a new and better... Find out more

A draft directive on sustainability reporting out today begins to address the challenge of turning the corporate tanker towards a zero-emissions 2050. Today the European Commission publishes a proposal for a directive on sustainability reporting, which would massively overhaul the current European... Find out more

The pandemic made us all familiar with ‘social distancing’. Employers are starting to glimpse a future where ‘contractual distancing’ is progressively normalised. For all the suffering it wrought and the challenges it has brought to everyday life, the onset of the pandemic had one positive effect... Find out more

Belgium - National day of action ACV-CSC, the largest trade union, has planned demonstrations and strikes in protest against the wage increase being offered in the private sector, which workers are calling ‘unacceptable’. Employers want to grant a maximum increase of 0.4% for the private sector for... Find out more

On 23 March 2021, the European Union information agency for occupational safety and health (EU-OSHA) launched its multilingual thesaurus on Occupational Health and Safety (OSH). This tool consists of a list of 2 000 OSH related terms grouped together in a hierarchy, including synonyms, antonyms... Find out more

The idea that Covid impacts society as a whole in an equal manner has been proven wrong by the sharp divide in terms of inequalities that this crisis has aggravated. The injustice of unfair profit sharing between those who benefitted economically from the pandemic and their employees have, for... Find out more

The Covid-19 pandemic has provided a stress test for occupational safety and health (OSH) in the EU, unfortunately revealing several structural deficiencies in the way the EU OSH regulatory system is implemented in practice. This is the key message of the OSH chapter of ‘Benchmarking Working Europe... Find out more

Subscribe to our newsletters → here The European Commission’s proposal to reduce the stubborn gender pay gap pulls some punches, apparently anticipating employer resistance. Earlier this month, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal for a directive to strengthen application of... Find out more