‘Sustainable growth for all: choices for the future of social Europe’: the 2019 annual edition of Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) confirms that the EU is well placed to protect and enhance citizens’ living standards while pursuing an ambitious transition to an environmentally...
Created in 2016, the European Platform tackling undeclared work aims to: - enhance knowledge sharing and cooperation among national authorities and others involved in tackling undeclared work; - help Member States to deal better with undeclared work; - increase public awareness of undeclared wor...
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...
2012 has been another very bad year for Europe. After five years of economic crisis, recession has returned, unemployment has reached levels not experienced in nearly two decades and the social situation is also deteriorating. The effect of national automatic stabilisers, intended to keep up hou...
The ‘working poor’ are a substantial group, the latest estimate putting 10% of European workers at risk of poverty, up from 8% in 2007. This report describes the development of in-work poverty in the EU since the crisis of 2008, picking up where an earlier Eurofound report on this subject, publi...