Trinczek, Rainer
Commission issues Communication on tackling gender pay gap
08 Spalis 2007
On 18 July 2007, the European Commission [1] published a Communication on
gender-based pay disparities in the EU, entitled Tackling the pay gap between
women and men (117Kb PDF) [2]. The Communication outlines analysis and policy
on the matter, and includes an extensive annex including remarks on the legal
framework, the methodology used in measuring the pay gap, and some
statistics.
[1] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/observatories/eurwork/industrial-relations-dictionary/european-commission
[2] http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/news/2007/jul/genderpaygap_en.pdf
Attractive workplace for all: a contribution to the Lisbon strategy at company level - National report for Germany
28 Rugsėjis 2007
The Foundation project ‘Attractive workplace for all: A contribution to the Lisbon Strategy at company level’ aims at identifying pioneer company practices, policies and agreements and showing how the Lisbon strategy is being implemented on the ground at company level. Examples of innovative company practice were gathered from several Member States. In this report, case examples for Germany are organised under the following six thematic headings: fostering employability; increasing labour market participation of underemployed groups; integration into the labour market of people at risk of exclusion; make work pay, make work attractive; towards a balanced flexibility; and business creation and entrepreneurship.
Wide variations in minimum wage among EU Member States
09 Rugsėjis 2007
Statutory minimum wage systems are widespread in the EU: 20 of the 27 EU
Member States have a national minimum wage. Only Austria, Cyprus, Denmark,
Finland, Germany, Italy and Sweden do not rely on statutory minimum wages; in
those countries, collective agreements are the main mechanism used for
regulating low pay (‘Minimum wages in Europe’, TN0507101S [1]).
[1] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/observatories/eurwork/erm/comparative-information/minimum-wages-in-europe
EU Council endorses Commission’s decent work agenda
01 Balandis 2007
‘Decent work’ is a term which was originally coined by the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) [1] in a report [2] published in June 1999. For the
ILO, decent work lies at the ‘heart of social progress’ and has thus
become one of its major strategic policy concepts (see ILO declaration [3] on
decent work). The European Commission has always taken the view that the
ILO’s decent work agenda shares a number of common grounds with the
European social model [4] and the European Social Policy Agenda [5].
[1] http://www.ilo.org/
[2] http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc87/rep-i.htm
[3] http://www.ilo.org/public/english/decent.htm
[4] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/observatories/eurwork/industrial-relations-dictionary/european-social-model
[5] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/observatories/eurwork/industrial-relations-dictionary/social-policy-agenda