How board quotas influence gender-equality policies
Quotas can encourage corporate leadership to assign more importance to equality.
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Quotas can encourage corporate leadership to assign more importance to equality.
A ‘tight’ labour market is not such a bad thing for trade unions—and therefore for workers.
Best practices in short-time working can prepare for the looming downturn.
The ‘key’ workers of the pandemic need sustained recognition. The chaos at airports shows what happens otherwise.
The directive fundamentally strengthens collective bargaining and trade union power.
Reining in demand via monetary policy will not solve a supply problem.
Minimum wages have risen across Europe this year. Inflation is eroding them.
On UN Public Service Day, many public-service workers and the services they provide remain needlessly impoverished.
Tracking four alternative economic indicators would provide a very different view of comparative performance than GDP.
Tens of thousands of Belgian workers today demand better wages and purchasing power.
Remote work will outlast the pandemic. But workers must be inoculated against the risks.
This year’s gathering of business and political elites in Davos recognised a basic truth—without reckoning with past mistakes.
The Recovery and Resilience Facility could remain a one-off crisis measure—or point to a permanent EU fiscal arrangement.
Jayati Ghosh highlights the vicious circle between spiralling wealth and corporate political influence.
The Ukraine crisis has shown not only that unlimited trade is impossible but also that it needs to be regulated by values.
Peter Bofinger explains how inflation in the eurozone can be tempered without jeopardising recovery.
In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.
If remote working is no longer to be temporary, workers could revitalise previously ‘remote’ areas.
On this World Day for Safety and Health at Work, as every day, some 7,500 workers will die from its absence.
Adrien Thomas, Nadja Dörflinger, Karel Yon and Michel Pletschette
Unions have struggled with health-and-safety responses to Covid-19.
The debate on AI has focused mainly on its potential effect on employment. The impact on equality should not however be missed.