The uneven impact of the 2008–2013 economic crisis on Member States brought upward convergence to the fore in EU political debates. The focus was on orienting social policy towards getting the EU back on track, as encapsulated in the European Pillar of Social Rights. However, the meaning of the ...
This paper has been prepared for the Peer Review on “Legislation and practical management of psychosocial risks at work”. It provides a comparative assessment of the policy example of the Host Country (Sweden) and the situation in Germany. For information on the host country policy example, plea...
Across Europe, new forms of employment are emerging that differ significantly from traditional employment. Some of these forms of employment transform the relationship between employer and employee while others change work organisation and work patterns. They often involve locations other than t...
Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) have difficulties managing occupational safety and health (OSH) and hence may experience poor OSH conditions and often lack systematic OSH management. The complex causes for this and the outcome in terms of work-related injuries and poor working environments ar...
Collaborative Economy became the buzzword used to refer to all kinds of online platform based business models in the recent years. Yet there is no consensus on a working definition for these platforms and robust evidence is lacking on their costs and benefits to society – a precondition for good...
This review is part of a project of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), initiated by the European Parliament, on the safety and health of older workers. The objective of the review is to provide an up-to-date summary of knowledge regarding vocational rehabilitation and r...
This report describes the findings of a study of change in job tenure between 2002 and 2012 in the EU. The study examined change in mean tenure as well as the distribution of short and long tenure in the EU and in individual Member States. It also looked at differences in tenure according to dif...
This report aims to update the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work working paper ‘Priorities for occupational safety and health research in the EU-25’ (EU-OSHA, 2005), first published in 2005, taking into account the latest developments in scientific knowledge in the field, changes in ...
The objective of this draft paper is to provide an overview of the main short and medium-term challenges and strategies for PES to tackle current issues linked to COVID-19. In the short-term this concerns the implementation of short-time work and similar schemes, the reorganisation of work proce...
This report evaluates the 2019 EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) ad hoc module on work organisation and working time arrangements. The main objective of this report is to describe the implementation of the survey and to assess the quality of the dataset. The report presents some main results and r...
This paper has been prepared for the Peer Review on “Legislation and practical management of psychosocial risks at work”. It provides a comparative assessment of the policy example of the Host Country (Sweden) and the situation in Slovenia. For information on the host country policy example, ple...
In this report we contribute to the growing debate about how the introduction of technology affects labour demand. First, we provide some background of the main theoretical frameworks (SBTC and RBTC) used by researchers to explain recent changes in the employment distribution. Second, we review ...
Digital labour platforms are a new form of coordinating the provision of labour services enabled by the latest technological revolution. Many authors claim that digital labour platforms have the potential to disrupt the world of work, both positively by boosting participation in the labour marke...
The aim of this study was to undertake a more detailed analysis of the data from the Second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-2) concerning the management of health and safety in European Union (EU) workplaces....
This paper has been prepared for the Peer Review on “Legislation and practical management of psychosocial risks at work”. It provides a comparative assessment of the policy example of the Host Country (Sweden) and the situation in Denmark. The situation in Sweden is described in the host country...
New forms of organising work, non-standard forms of employment and new forms of self-employment are contributing to the diversity in the labour market across the Member States. They can be observed in the heterogeneity of the forms of employment that are distinct from those based on individual p...
We have been asked by DG GROW to assess the size and presence of the collaborative economy in Europe. For the purposes of this exercise we assessed five key sectors of the collaborative economy that facilitate transactions through an online platform : - Peer-to-peer accommodation: households sha...
Serving employers effectively is a key plank of an effective PES and is central to achieving PES goals. This toolkit is intended to support PES in designing, implementing and monitoring approaches of effectively engaging with employers. It provides guidance, options and examples to help PES devi...
Digitalisation has broad implications for many workers. In the past couple of decades, digitalisation has primarily changed the way people work, with online communications and information-sharing as well as mechanical support for information processing. For the most part, however, the way in whi...
The objectives of the evaluation were twofold : 1. To assess, more than three years after their publication/adoption the impact of the Communication “Towards Common Principles of flexicurity” and the Common Principles on national policy making in the EU Member States; and 2. To analyse the impac...
The rapid growth of the collaborative economy has fuelled a discussion about its potential benefits and challenges. Moving the debate towards longer-term considerations the scenario-based JRC foresight project explores the possible future developments of the EU collaborative economy towards 2030...
