Communication calendar

How to ensure decent work and job quality for essential workers

The COVID-19 pandemic put the spotlight on groups of workers crucial to the functioning of our societies. Many of those, known as essential workers, experience several difficulties, including insufficient pay, precarious contracts, long or very short working hours and psychosocial risks. At the same


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Event
In-person event
Job quality
Working conditions and sustainable work
Social dialogue
Care

Job quality of COVID-19 pandemic essential workers

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a diverse collection of workers ensured the functioning of our societies. In a time of crisis, they maintained access to healthcare, long-term care and other essential goods and services, including food, water, electricity, the internet and waste treatment.

10 October 2023
Publication
Policy brief
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Job quality
COVID-19

Informal meeting of Employment Committee (EMCO)

This informal meeting of the Employment Committee (EMCO) is one in the series of regular meetings that EMCO holds throughout the year. The meeting will cover a range of topics: ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality; national initiatives in Spain for promoting fair, green employment

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In-person event
Working conditions and sustainable work
Social dialogue
Industrial relations and social dialogue
European Green Deal
Working conditions

Watch the webinar - #AskTheExpert: How to help workers struggling with inflation?

In this #AsktheExpert webinar Senior Research Manager Christine Aumayr-Pintar and Research Manager Ricardo Rodríguez Contreras will look at the impacts of inflation on real terms pay across Europe and how this is likely to develop in the coming months. Tadas Leončikas, Head of the Employment unit


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Event
Online event
Pay and income
Minimum wage
Public services
Industrial relations and social dialogue

Protecting mental health in a diverse and ever-changing workplace – Managing psychosocial risks

This conference, taking place in Toledo on 26–27 September, addresses the topic of psychosocial risks and challenges to mental health in the workplace.

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In-person event
Working conditions and sustainable work
Psychosocial risks
Subjective well-being
Health and well-being at work
Working conditions

Guaranteeing access to services for children in the EU

The European Child Guarantee was established in 2021 to ensure that children in need have access to a set of key services. This policy brief analyses trends and disparities in children’s access to early childhood education and care, education, healthcare, nutrition and housing.

21 September 2023
Publication
Policy brief
Promoting social cohesion and convergence
Social inclusion
Living conditions
Public services
Care
Youth

High-level meeting on the future of work and of social dialogue

This high-level meeting taking place in 21-22 September, in Santiago de Compostela, addresses the future of work. It covers the broad topic in three thematic panels – on democracy at work; artificial intelligence, algorithms and work; and green collective bargaining.

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In-person event
Structural change
European Green Deal
Digitalisation
Just transition
Anticipating and managing the impact of change

Skills, skills, skills! Skills for people, skills for competitiveness, skills for sustainability

Skills and ‘the right to quality and inclusive education, training and life-long learning’ is at the forefront of the European Pillar of Social Rights, but what skills are required in today’s EU labour market? Where are the gaps, where are the shortages? And what initiatives can help to anticipate


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Event
In-person event
Skills and training
Working conditions and sustainable work
Employment and labour markets

Етична цифровизация на работното място: От теория към практика

Automation and digitisation technologies, including artificial intelligence, are rapidly evolving and becoming increasingly powerful and pervasive. The full range of their effects in the workplace is yet to be seen. It is, however, important not only to explore the ethical implications of digital te

12 September 2023
Publication
Research report
Предвиждане и управление на въздействието на промяната
Ерата на цифровите технологии — възможности и трудности за труда и заетостта
Working conditions
Социален диалог
Agreements
Skills and training
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Справяне с нарастващата инфлация в секторното колективно договаряне на заплатите

After a long period of price stability, inflation has made a remarkable comeback in the EU. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the energy crisis spurred by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the disruption of the international supply chain, among other factors, have driven up the

06 September 2023
Publication
Research report
Колективни трудови правоотношения и социален диалог
Минимална работна заплата
Collective bargaining
Agreements
Заплащане и доходи
Индустриални отношения
Социален диалог