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The platform economy is one of those moving targets, which, despite receiving increasing media and policy attention, has proven difficult to regulate. Given the heterogeneity of employment relationships, business models, types of platform work and cross-border issues, this is not surprising. Yet, in recent years, an increasing number of initiatives and court rulings across EU Member States have sought to address the employment rights and working conditions of platform workers.

Sektor bankarskog poslovanja sa stanovništvom pogodan je za proučavanje učinaka digitalizacije na rad i zapošljavanje. Financijske usluge sve se više pružaju putem interneta, bez posrednika u obliku institucija koje izravno rade s klijentima. Mnoge banke u tom sektoru prolaze kroz serijsko restrukturiranje od vremena svjetske financijske krize i to jedan je od rijetkih uslužnih sektora u kojem se bilježi stagnacija ili pad zaposlenosti.

Although the worldwide pandemic situation had already disrupted supply chains and triggered increases in energy and food prices in 2021, the situation deteriorated in 2022 with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Governments throughout the EU had already started to intervene with policy measures in a bid to cushion the impact of rising fuel and energy prices on citizens, but the situation demanded further responses. This article summarises these first policy responses, as reported in Eurofound’s EU PolicyWatch database, up to the end of May 2022.

As the war in Ukraine has intensified, the cost of food, raw materials and energy prices, already high due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has continued to rise substantially. Ahead of coordinated action at EU level, as agreed by EU energy ministers on 9 September 2022, governments across the EU have started to implement policies to support companies affected by the rising prices, and those with commercial ties to Ukraine, Russia or Belarus. This article summarises these first policy responses, as reported in Eurofound’s EU PolicyWatch database, up to 31 May 2022.

In collecting information on essential services, the European Commission requested Eurofound to provide input on certain aspects of existing and planned measures in the Member States to improve access to essential services in reference to Principle 20 of the European Pillar of Social Rights. For this exercise, the scope was on energy services, public transport, and digital communications, and the focus on people at risk of poverty or social exclusion (in most cases in practice, people on low incomes).

This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the gas sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective participation in the European sectoral social dialogue and their capacity to negotiate agreements.

Cilj je ovog izvješća prikazati i analizirati zakonodavstvo i kolektivno pregovaranje o radu na daljinu u 27 država članica i Norveškoj. U njemu se ističu glavne razlike među zemljama i sličnosti u pogledu zakonodavstva o radu na daljinu kao i nedavne promjene tih propisa. Razmatra se i trenutačno stanje u pogledu kolektivnog pregovaranja o radu na daljinu.

U ovom se izvješću analiziraju nedavna kretanja i nove prakse u postupcima i ishodima kolektivnog pregovaranja, uglavnom u privatnom sektoru. Izvješće obuhvaća sustave kolektivnog pregovaranja u 10 država članica EU-a i temelji se na slučajevima utvrđenima kroz razgovore s ključnim dionicima i pregovaračkim stranama na nacionalnoj razini. U njemu se analiziraju učinci pandemije bolesti COVID-19 te gospodarske i socijalne krize koja je uslijedila na dinamiku kolektivnog pregovaranja i kolektivne ugovore.

Rising energy prices are putting more people under increased financial pressure and at greater risk of energy poverty. In this data story, we take a closer look at the data from the fifth round of the Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey to explore the extent of the issue and the threat of energy poverty.

Trust in national institutions has declined across the EU over the past two years. Driven by increasingly difficult economic circumstances and unreliable news sources, even people who previously expressed higher trust levels – such as those in financially secure positions – have become less trusting.