What have been the major trends and policy developments regarding the flexibilisation of employment in recent years? Eurofound’s work programme for 2017–2020 set out to document and capture these changes in the world of work. This flagship publication provides an overview of developments in Euro...
In the European context, non-standard employment, and fixed-term contracts most notably, have emerged as a response to the deregulation ‘at the margin’ of the labour market, legalising and liberalising the use of temporary types of work over the last decades. Given the negative side-effects of l...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has significantly accelerated the pace of labour market transformations, changing what people do for a living; how they do it, what skills they need; where they perform their work; how work relations are structured, and how work is organised, distributed and rewa...
This collection of best practice examples shows how European Union Member States are improving access to social protection for workers and self-employed citizens. It was developed by national authorities and social partners for national authorities and social partners, to support the implementat...
In the intervening period since the adoption of the Directive in the early 1990s, a number of issues have arisen, including a significant increase in the new forms of employment, as well as concerns about the timeframe of employee notification, the content of information provided and other issue...
This Policy Department A study prepared at request of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee examines the incidence of temporary forms of working in Europe, transitions to permanent work and the types of reform options that could help to mitigate labour market dualism. It explores labour ma...
Mini-jobs have become a key feature of the German labour market, as one fifth of dependent employed hold a mini-job. Among the 7.6 million mini-jobber, 4.9 million have mini-jobs as a main job, the remaining ones as a second job. The by far most important form of mini-jobs (geringfügige Beschäft...
Project-based continuous collaboration contract (Contratto di collaborazione a progetto, or Co.co.pro.) is a non-standard form of employment contract established in Italy in 2003 that gradually replaced the earlier coordinated and continuous collaboration contract (Contratto di collaborazione co...
The civil law contracts are a special category of atypical contracts used to contract labour in Poland. There are two main types of civil law contracts: the contract to perform specified work (umowa o dzieło) and the contract of mandate (umowa zlecenie). The latter is more popular than the forme...
Casual work in the form of contractual day-labour has been legally endorsed in Romania by the Law 52/2011, which followed shortly the revised labour code (Law 40/2011) that significantly deregulated the labour market and limited trade unionism. In its initial version, the law represented a sharp...
