After a week of tough negotiations, major international unions, employers, industry bodies, and governments have come to an agreement to advance workers' rights in the arts and entertainment sector. The high-level meeting took place on 13-17 February at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in... Find out more

Right–wing populist movements and parties are rising almost everywhere in Europe. Recent parliamentary elections across most European countries show a similar picture. A growing number of voters, including working people, and at times even trade union members, feel attracted to the populist... Find out more

Austria: New collective agreement in the electricity sector The trade union GPA has negotiated a new collective agreement in the electricity sector which delivers pay increases of 8.6%-9.6% along with increases in allowances of between 8.6% and 9.3%. Another result of the negotiations is a... Find out more

Have you ever considered how different forms of oppression intersect and interact with each other? Have you ever considered how those forms of oppression create unique experiences of marginalization and privilege? This is the essence of intersectionality. The law professor and social theorist... Find out more

The National Federation of the French Mutuality (FNMF), the representative body of the majority of health mutuals in France, has announced plans to cut at least 62 jobs by July 2023 – just over a quarter of the workforce. The redundancy plan has been denounced by the staff representative body of the... Find out more

A recent pilot program in the United Kingdom has demonstrated that reducing working hours result in significant benefits to employees' well-being and productivity. Non-profit organization 4 Day Week Global, the UK’s 4 Day Week Campaign, and think tank Autonomy conducted a six-month trial of a 4-day... Find out more

Whether the presumption of an employment relationship would mean an end to self-employment for platform workers is a false debate. Delivery Platforms Europe—whose members include Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Glovo—has made no secret of its opposition to the European Union directive on improving working... Find out more

The European Commission remains ambivalent on involvement of the social partners in political decision-making. What role should the ‘social partners’ (organisations representing workers and employers at national and at European Union level) play in the economy’s digital and environmental transitions... Find out more

EU plans for emissions from trucks and buses The Commission presented on 14 February its plans to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions from so-called ‘heavy-duty vehicles’ (trucks and buses). The proposed regulation aims at having zero-emission buses by 2030 and reducing the emissions of new trucks... Find out more

Climate change and rising temperatures are the leading causes of natural disasters such as flooding, storms, land sliding, wildfires, drought, and desertification, to name a few. With the rate of change of climate, the frequency and scale of these disasters have also gone up over the last decades... Find out more