Communiqué, issue 3, 2004
Articles
- Foundation findings place family policies back on the agenda
- Social policy a priority for Dutch EU Presidency
- Monitoring industrial change in Europe: future prospects
- Quality of life in Europe: theme of the next information campaign
- Increasing number of lay-offs in the first quarter of 2004
- Trends and drivers of change in the European railway sector
- Benchmarking the quality of industrial relations in the public sector
- Changing attitudes toward financial participation
- The Foundation’s ‘open-door’ policy
Previous issues of Communiqué
Workers across Europe are set to receive profit-sharing, share ownership or stock option schemes as part of a changing attitude towards financial participation by governments and social partners across Europe. This is one of the findings of Financial participation: The role of government and social partners, a recently published report which forms part of the Foundation’s on-going research in the field.
While trade unions still remain cautious about the merits of such measures for workers, the report shows that governments and employer organisations have radically changed their attitudes since 1996, when these were last recorded at EU level by the second ‘PEPPER’ report from the European Commission. The report argues that recent changes in some countries, most notably Belgium, appear to have been stimulated by debates at EU level, taking on board many principles developed there.