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Stan De Spiegelaere

Stan De Spiegelaere is a policy and research director at UNI Europa and guest professor at the University of Ghent.

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Reversing the procurement race to the bottom

Oliver Roethig and Stan De Spiegelaere 30th November 2021

Companies must be denied contracts if they refuse to respect workers’ rights.

It’s time to talk about democracy at work

Stan De Spiegelaere 22nd May 2019

Democracy at work has many benefits but above all it is a matter of human dignity.

An Unlikely Cure For Populism: Workplace Democracy

Stan De Spiegelaere 23rd April 2018

Trump in the White House, Orban in Hungary, the Law and Justice party in Poland, the AfD in Germany, Erdoğan in Turkey… It seems like the list of challenges to our democracies is worryingly extensive already. Time to act! And the area where one should act might surprise you: our companies. Democracy lives in the […]

Top Of The Christmas Wish List: A Working Time Reduction

Stan De Spiegelaere 22nd December 2017 2 Comments

In our family, Christmas means sending and receiving wish lists. This year, my cousin took a very honest approach and wished for (among other things) somebody to come and paint her house, a jacuzzi, a pony, and more free time. It didn’t help me much in my Christmas shopping, but it does highlight the fact […]

Do We Need Another Renault To Wake Us Up?

Stan De Spiegelaere 6th March 2017

Exactly 20 years ago today, the very first European-wide strike was organized. In all Renault plants workers suspended work for one hour in protest against the closure of the Vilvoorde factory. This gesture of transnational solidarity was made possible thanks to a then recent piece of experimental European legislation called ‘European Works Councils’ (EWCs). But […]

Let’s Give A New Boost To European Works Councils

Stan De Spiegelaere 12th July 2016

The social policy track record of the European Union is bleak at best. But in one field the EU did make a marked difference: in 1994 it agreed on the European Works Councils Directive. In multinational companies of a certain size, employee representatives from across Europe have since enjoyed the right to be informed and […]

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EU Care Atlas: a new interactive data map showing how care deficits affect the gender earnings gap in the EU

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While attention is often focused on the gender pay gap (13%), the EU Care Atlas brings to light the more worrisome and complex picture of women’s economic inequalities. The pay gap is just one of three main elements that explain the overall earnings gap, which is estimated at 36.7%. The EU Care Atlas illustrates the urgent need to look beyond the pay gap and understand the interplay between the overall earnings gap and care imbalances.


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Towards a new Minimum Wage Policy in Germany and Europe: WSI minimum wage report 2022

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