The EU Labor Force Survey shows that the overall proportion of people working fron home in the EU has more than doubled in the last few years, from 11.1% in 2019 to 20% in 2022. Telework brings many opportunities to the world of work, but also some challenges, While it can allow for flexible work…
On 24 April 2024, MEPs approved new rules aiming to improve the working conditions on platform workers. The Platform Work Directive, agreed on by the Parliament and the Council in February, and adopted with 554 votes in favour, 56 votes against and 24 abstentions, aim to ensure that platform workers have their employment status classified…
EU employment and social affairs ministers confirmed the provisional agreement reached on 8 February 2024 between the Council’s presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators on the platform work directive. The directive has two main objectives: On the one hand, addressing false self-employment in platform work. The agreed text strikes a balance between respecting national labour…
Last 1st and 2nd of February took place the first Steering Committee of the DIGILARE project, at the University Carlos III of Madrid. During two days of intense work, the first results of the theoretical analysis of the scope of application of information and consutlation rights in the EU Directives were presented to the team…
On 5 February 2024, at the Val Duchesse Social Partners Summit, the European Commission, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU and European Ssocial partners signed a “Tripartite Declaration for a Thriving European Social Dialogue“. This Declaration stands for a renewed commitment to strengthen social dialogue at EU level and to join forces…
The Commission proposes to revise the European Works Councils (EWCs) Directive to further improve social dialogue in the EU. The proposed revision aims to strengthen the role of EWCs by facilitating their creation, fostering more meaningful information and consultation, and ensuring they have the necessary capacity to carry out their work. It also aims to…
The European Commission welcomes the political agreement reached today between the European Parliament and the EU Member States on the Directive on improving the working conditions in platform work, which was proposed by the Commission in December 2021.
COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION of 12 June 2023 on strengthening social dialogue in the European Union