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Publication

03/2016

Benchmarking working Europe 2016

With this year’s chosen focus – ‘prepared for the future?’ – the new edition of Benchmarking working Europe analyses the state of working Europe with the aid of a multi-level and multi-dimensional set of indicators.

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Gérard Valenduc and Patricia Vendramin (Fondation Travail-Université (FTU) ) 04/2016

digital economy working paper

This paper sets out to analyse the digital economy and changes in work by sifting elements of continuity from others that are radically new. Aspects examined are: genuinely new features encountered in the digital economy model; major instances of technological change observable in the working environment; new forms of work in the digital economy; distance and employment relationships; challenges entailed in regulating a labour world...

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Edited by Jan Drahokoupil (ETUI), Rutvica Andrijasevic (Univ Bristol, UK) and Devi Sacchetto (Univ. Padua,... 03/2016

Book Foxconn electronics assembly between Europe and China

This book investigates restructuring in the electronics industry and in particular the impact of a ‘Chinese’ labour regime on work and employment practices in the electronics assembly in Europe. It studies Foxconn, the world largest electronics manufacturing service provider and the main assember of Apple's iPhone and iPad.

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Christophe Degryse 02/2016

digitalisation of the economy, future of work

This working paper gives an overview of the new possibilities opened up by the 4th industrial revolution and tackles some specific questions in relation to its effects on the labour market, including on the status of employees, on working conditions and on training. It examines the role that trade unions can play in the digital economy and the main initiatives already proposed at European trade union level in this context.

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Torsten Müller 02/2016

The focus of this paper is the need to reshape the financial assistance programmes and the related activities of the Troika in a way that would make them more socially and democratically acceptable. The starting point, therefore, is an analysis of the current role of the Troika and of each of its three constituent institutions in the framework of the financial assistance programmes.

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Edited by Martin Myant, Sotiria Theodoropoulou, Agnieszka Piasna (ETUI) 02/2016

Unemployment, internal devaluation and labour market regulation in Europe

Unemployment rates in the EU rose after the economic crisis of 2008, passing 10% in 2012, but with big variations between countries. The worst afflicted had been subject to so-called policies of internal devaluation, aimed at curing unemployment by reducing wage costs. This book provides a comparative study of countries that to varying degrees followed that road (Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland) set against others that did not (Germ...

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Hugh Robertson (TUC, United Kingdom) 04/2016

This policy brief looks at the new ISO45001 draft international standard for occupational safety and health (OSH) management systems.

Education

1/04 - 30/09/2016
On-line

The online courses provided by the ETUI cover 2 levels, low-Intermediate to Intermediate, and Intermediate to upper-Intermediate. They are part of the language and communication training programme delivered by the ETUI every year. Each course has a duration of 6 months.

News

Belgium: the government proposes greater flexibility in working time

13 April 2016

The Belgian government is currently refining a draft reform of statutory working time that will favour an increase in flexible working. The government believes that this reform will respond to the wishes of many workers by allowing for a better balance between family and working life. Trade unions, however, fear that this flexibility will only work one way, serving first and foremost the needs and interests of business.

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Labour Mobility and Citizenship: Safeguarding Social Standards in Europe

11 April 2016

ETUI researcher Magdalena Bernaciak was invited to speak at the roundtable discussion on ‘Labour Mobility and Citizenship: Safeguarding Social Standards in Europe’, organised on 3 April at the European Economic and Social Committee by Solidar, a European network of NGOs dealing with labour rights and social justice.

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Farm workers and women's hairdressers among professions linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma

11 April 2016

New research has identified certain occupations and industries that may contribute to the risk of workers developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a group of related cancers affecting part of the body’s immune system.

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Trade unions in central and eastern Europe: innovation against all odds

8 April 2016

Trade unions in central and eastern (CEE) Europe are using new approaches to attract workers and address broader societal concerns. A project with ETUI involvement takes stock of these innovative techniques.

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Collective Bargaining developments March 2016

5 April 2016

Here are the most important developments at European and member state level from the March issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter:

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Eight years after outbreak of crisis, no new narrative for Europe in sight

22 March 2016

On 17 March, Roger Liddle, member of the House of Lords, was invited to speak at an ETUI Monthly Forum on the future of social Europe. The former adviser to British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair is a co-author of the study 'The social reality of Europe after the crisis', published by the Foundation for European Progressives Studies. He issued a plea for the development of a new narrative for social Europe based on a credible economic policy programme.

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Collective Bargaining in Germany in 2015 - WSI Annual Report

17 March 2016

The Hans Böckler Foundation’s Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) has just published its Annual Report on collective bargaining developments in Germany in 2015.

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Health and safety at work: Esther Lynch (ETUC) on priorities and gender challenges

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About ETUI

The European Trade Union Institute is the independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) which itself affiliates European trade unions into a single European umbrella organisation. The ETUI places its expertise – acquired in particular in the context of its links with universities, academic and expert networks – in the service of workers’ interests at European level and of the strengthening of the social dimension of the European Union. Read more

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