Another win for workers: Uber drivers are employees
As the platforms lose case after case over the designation of ‘contractors’ as workers, they are lobbying at European level to win back … [Read more...]
Social Europe articles on the economy
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Global inequality and the pandemic: exaggerated hopes and fears?
The pandemic has barely increased global income inequality—but it has made other inequalities worse. The pandemic and the lockdowns and stimulus … [Read more...]
Minimum-wage directive: the case for a ‘social partners option’
Adding a ‘social partners option’ to the minimum-wage directive could unblock negotiations while protecting well-functioning collective bargaining … [Read more...]
Wellbeing at work—it’s time to up the ante
The new EU health-and-safety strategy risks being a missed opportunity to address workplace mental health and wellbeing. Before Covid-19, the … [Read more...]
Platforms put a spoke in the wheels of Spain’s ‘riders’ law’
The Ley de Riders, recognising delivery riders as employees, is now a reality. But is it a game-changer? On July 21st, after less than a month of … [Read more...]
Europe gets back to the work … of getting people to work
The notion that active-labour-market policies are the solution to unemployment has long been an act of faith. That’s the problem. The leading … [Read more...]
Dedramatising debt
Post-pandemic recovery and the green transition—and Europe’s competitiveness—depend on investment financed by joint borrowing. The Covid-19 … [Read more...]
ECB strategy review: the mountain has given birth to a mouse
Peter Bofinger argues that the ECB strategy review represents a missed opportunity. High expectations accompanied the outcome of the European … [Read more...]
Recruiting irregular migrants to … fight irregular migration
The EU directive sanctioning employers for utilising irregular migrants is putting migrant workers who might complain in a Kafkaesque … [Read more...]
The courage to change
Europe’s trade union and Christian business leaders appeal jointly for a new economic and social order after the pandemic. The pandemic has … [Read more...]
Corporate tax cuts do not boost growth
Implicit in the global ‘race to the bottom’ on corporation tax in recent decades has been that this favours growth. Yet does it? The idea that … [Read more...]
Minimum wages rise, but more slowly
Convergence of central and eastern-European EU members towards older ones with high minimum wages is much stronger than in the Mediterranean … [Read more...]
A minimum-wage directive could undermine the Nordic model
Several negative effects need to be addressed in the current negotiations on the directive, in the Swedish trade union view. The proposed … [Read more...]
Covid-19, women and the economy—it’s not all about care
There has been a macroeconomic blindspot in feminist narratives of the pandemic which unwittingly limits the scope of critique. The Covid-19 … [Read more...]
Climate crisis offers way out of monetary orthodoxy
The ECB's strategy review, Adam Tooze writes, says more by its silences than its statements. On July 8th the European Central Bank announced the … [Read more...]
A future-fit recovery?
EU member states’ National Recovery and Resilience Plans have been assessed against their capacity for transformative change—and found … [Read more...]
Switzerland: defending workers’ rights
In the standoff between the federal government and the European Commission on wage protection, the former has right on its side. The decision of … [Read more...]
Teleworking in the public sector
The pandemic has accelerated teleworking in the public sector—but with inadequate planning have come mixed results. Teleworking was growing … [Read more...]
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