It feels like every day there are new articles or blog posts about how Uber drivers are exploited, or on the bad working conditions and safety standards for Deliveroo riders. In an era of ‘fake news’ can we trust that these are accurate? They most likely are, and I agree that things are not all rosy with regards to employment and working conditions of platform workers. But we should be careful with generalising from such messages that all platform work is bad.
The workings of industrial relations are constantly evolving. In this blog piece, Eurofound authors Christian Welz and Ricardo Rodriguez Contreras discuss a tool that Eurofound has developed to enable this process of change to be monitored and analysed, enabling stakeholders in Member States to assess the functioning of industrial relations within their country and to compare it with others.
Results from Eurofound’s forthcoming report More and better jobs in home care services will be presented for the first time at a high-level event in Brussels on Thursday, 12 September 2013 at the Committee of the Regions. This one-day conference, organised by Eurofound under the auspices of the Lithuanian Presidency, will assess the policy challenges for long-term care as well as personal household services, particularly in relation to job creation and the quality of jobs in this sector.
This is a list of websites which may be of interest to EIROnline users. The links are grouped by country, and within countries under the categories of ‘employers’, ‘trade unions’, ‘government’ and ‘other’.
This report examines the extent of the phenomenon of the posting of workers, the respective roles played both by European and national-level legislation in determining the employment and working conditions of posted workers and the relative roles played by legislation and collective bargaining – and how these two domains interplay.
This report provides an overview of the extent, practice and impact of employee information and consultation (I&C) in 26 European countries five years after the implementation date of Directive 2002/14/EC.
In February 2011, three European-level trade union federations representing manufacturing workers agreed on a joint strategy to achieve stronger worker involvement in multinational companies. This joint approach has been triggered at least in part by a revised European Works Council directive, which came into force in June. The three federations want companies to find better ways to anticipate and manage change to minimise the negative impact it can have on employees.
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