Labour market developments, the impact of the so-called ‘fiscal revolution’ and new conditions for beneficiaries of the guaranteed minimum income are the main topics of interest in this article. This country update reports on the latest developments in working life in Romania in the second quarter of 2018.
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19 September 2018
EF article
The new tripartite action plan to combat job insecurity and new measures to promote collective bargaining are the main topics of interest in this article. This country update reports on one of the latest developments in working life in Portugal in the second quarter of 2018.
94237
19 September 2018
EF article
A settlement on pensions, amendments to the Working Environment Act, plans for a survey of foreign tour bus companies and a new report on working environments and occupational health are the main topics of interest in this article. This country update reports on the latest developments in working life in Norway in the second quarter of 2018.
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24 September 2018
Publication
Platform work is a form of employment that uses an online platform to match the supply of and demand for paid labour. In Europe, platform work is still small in scale but is rapidly developing. The types of work offered through platforms are ever-increasing, as are the challenges for existing regulatory frameworks. This report explores the working and employment conditions of three of the most common types of platform work in Europe. For each of these types, Eurofound assesses the physical and social environment, autonomy, employment status and access to social protection, and earnings and taxation based on interviews with platform workers. A comparative analysis of the regulatory frameworks applying to platform work in 18 EU Member States accompanies this review. This looks into workers’ employment status, the formal relationships between clients, workers and platforms, and the organisation and representation of workers and platforms.
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24 September 2018
Publication
Platform work, understood as the matching of the supply of and demand for paid work through an online platform, is still relatively small in scale but is developing rapidly in the EU. This dynamism and the ever-expanding scope of platform activities present economic opportunities, as well as challenges to existing regulatory frameworks. This study identified 10 common types of platform work, which cover almost all platform workers in the EU. It explores three in detail, based on interviews with platform workers: on-location platform-determined work: low-skilled work allocated by the platform and delivered in person; on-location worker-initiated work: low to moderately skilled work where tasks are selected and delivered in person; online contest work: high-skilled online work, where the worker is selected by the client by means of a contest. Read more in the report - see Related content.
94236
18 September 2018
EF article
New policies to improve work–life balance and a rise in permanent contracts are the main topics of interest in this article. This country update reports on the latest developments in working life in the Netherlands in the second quarter of 2018.
94235
18 September 2018
EF article
Concern about the rise in the number of foreign workers and a widening gender pay gap are the main topics of interest in this article. This country update reports on the latest developments in working life in Malta in the second quarter of 2018.
94246
18 September 2018
EF article
The European Commission’s report on the Barcelona objectives for high quality and affordable childcare, the Commission’s proposal for a Council Recommendation on early childhood education and care systems, the main outcomes of the EPSCO Council, and the new ‘Stand up for the Social Pillar’ alliance are the main topics of interest in this article. This update reports on the latest developments in working life in the European Union in the second quarter of 2018.
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19 September 2018
IR Dictionary
The International Labour Organization (ILO) was created in 1919, as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, to reflect the belief that universal and lasting peace can be accomplished only if it is based on social justice.
The ILO Constitution was prepared by a Labour Commission chaired by Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labour (AFL), and composed of representatives from Belgium, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States. As a result of its work, the ILO was established in Geneva as a tripartite organisation tasked with promoting social dialogue with representatives of social partners and governments in the framework of its executive bodies.
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19 September 2018
IR Dictionary
Collective agreements are a mechanism for implementing EU Directives in the field of employment and industrial relations. Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) stipulates: ‘A Directive shall be binding, as to the result to be achieved, upon each Member State to which it is addressed, but shall leave to the national authorities the choice of form and methods.’ This essentially means that Member States can, if they wish, choose to implement Directives by means of collective agreements. The role of collective agreements in implementing Directives is established in EC law by Article 153(3) TFEU, which states that a Member State may entrust management and labour, at their joint request, with the implementation of Directives adopted pursuant to paragraph 2.
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