The number of regulated professions varies considerably between member states. EU rules to facilitate the procedure are not applied consistently, and authorities do not consult alerts about misconduct when reviewing applications.
“Europe is experiencing a demographic revolution. Our age pyramid is changing, with more people aged over 65 and a significant number over 80. Children born today are likely to live up to 100 years or more. This shift, coupled with lower birthrates, inevitably leads to a shrinking population and workforce. It therefore demands a profound rethinking of our frameworks, because they were built for shorter lifespans” – VP Šuica.
A pregnant worker must be afforded a reasonable time limit in order to be able to bring an action against her dismissal. A two-week time limit for making a request for leave to intervene appears to be insufficient.
The OECD’s Society at a Glance 2024 shows that the total fertility rate dropped from 3.3 children per woman in 1960 to just 1.5 children per woman in 2022, significantly below the “replacement level” of 2.1 children per woman needed to keep population constant in the absence of migration. The total fertility rate is low in Italy and Spain, at 1.2 children per woman in 2022, and lowest in Korea,
The European Works Council Directive will amend the existing directive on European Works Councils (EWCs), making them easier to set up, better funded and better protected.
The EU Council agreed its negotiating position (‘general approach’) on a proposal to amend the existing rules governing European works councils (EWCs). Ministers also held other policy debates, e.g. on the social dimension of the internal market, with the aim of exploring the role of the labour market and social policies in creating a sustainable single market for all.
The 2024 European Semester Spring Package provides guidance how to build a robust and future-proof economy that secures competitiveness, resilience and long-term prosperity for all, while maintaining sound public finances, in the face of a challenging geopolitical environment.
Algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the way people live and work. Depending on how AI technologies are used and what purpose they serve, they can drive progress and benefit the whole of society, but they also raise ethical concerns and may cause harm.
This briefing explores and maps out some of the social consequences of the Green Deal, focusing in particular on the effect the green transition will have on labour markets. It also touches briefly on the housing and transport sectors.
The Talent Pool will be set up as an EU-wide online platform that will match profiles of jobseekers from outside the EU with job vacancies for shortage occupations of EU employers. Its aim is to facilitate the recruitment of talent from third countries who live outside the EU, to make the EU labour market more competitive and to tackle shortages on the European labour market.
On 11 June 2024, the European Commission has proposed to extend the temporary protection for people fleeing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine for another year, from 5 March 2025 to 4 March 2026.
On 30 April 2024, 4.2 million non-EU citizens, who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine that began on 24 February 2022, had temporary protection status in the EU. Germany and Spain did not provide any data to Eurostat.
Eight months of war in the Gaza Strip have caused loss of jobs and livelihoods on a massive scale and a sharp decline in GDP in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), a new brief by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reports.
Working conditions of domestic and home care workers across Europe are not sustainable, according to a new Europe-wide survey released today.
As part of the Article 7(1) procedure, the EU Council discussed the rule of law situation in Poland. Ministers started preparations for the European Council meeting on 27 and 28 June 2024 by discussing an annotated draft agenda.
150 European citizens addressed 21 recommendations to the European Commission and national authorities aimed at combatting hatred in all its forms and fostering mutual respect during the final session of the European Citizens’ Panel on Tackling Hatred in Society.
A Belgian national works in Luxembourg and lives in Belgium. As a frontier worker, he depends on the Luxembourg system for family allowances, which he received for several years for a child placed in his household by a court order. In 2017, that family allowance was withdrawn. The Luxembourg Court of Cassation queries whether this approach constituted a case of indirect discrimination.
The European Commission has registered a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Save the Planet by shifting taxation from labour to greenhouse gas emissions’.
The Commission has published a detailed country analysis in the areas of employment, skills and social inclusion for Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary and Romania, detailing the results of the Social Convergence Framework.
The Council approved conclusions on the economic empowerment and financial independence of women as a pathway to substantive gender equality, based on a report by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).
Three years after the adoption of the European Child Guarantee by the Council of the European Union in June 2021, experts reviewed the progress made so far in its implementation.
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