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EU | Rights of self-​employed workers

27.02.2018 Updated on 22.03.2022 Europe, Fundamental rights, Precarious work, Working relationship

ETUC workshop | Amsterdam, Feb. 2018

A work­shop organ­ised by ETUC is con­sid­er­ing solu­tions for restric­tions imposed on self-​employed work­ers by nation­al com­pe­ti­tion authorities

In Amsterdam, on 14 February 2018, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) organ­ised its third the­mat­ic work­shop on self-​employed work­ers, with the active help of EAEA. The meet­ing focused on self-​employed work­ers who, in a cer­tain num­ber of coun­tries, are deprived of the ben­e­fit of col­lec­tive agree­ments as a result of com­pe­ti­tion law.

The work­shop brought togeth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives of union con­fed­er­a­tions from all over Europe, jurists and spe­cial­ists from the International Labour Organization and the Council of Europe. The enter­tain­ment and media sec­tor were at the heart of dis­cus­sions, with an analy­sis of the con­se­quences of the absorp­tion of FNV-​KIEM in the Netherlands and the new Irish law which, via an excep­tion to com­pe­ti­tion law, autho­rizes free­lance jour­nal­ists, come­di­ans and musi­cians to ben­e­fit from col­lec­tive agree­ments1. […]
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Europe | EAEA’s reply to the Commission’s consultation

20.11.2017 Updated on 22.03.2022 Europe, Labour rights, Precarious work, Working relationship

EAEA logo

EAEA has set out its pro­pos­als for effi­cient­ly imple­ment­ing the ini­tia­tive of the European Pillar of Social Rights, with par­tic­u­lar regard to atyp­i­cal work

On 3 November 2017, EAEA answered the two ques­tions posed by the European Commission in the sec­ond phase of con­sul­ta­tion of social part­ners on a pos­si­ble review of the “writ­ten state­ment” direc­tive (91/​553/​EEC), with­in the scope of its ini­tia­tive on a European Pillar of Social Rights.

The points raised by EAEA cor­re­spond to con­cerns also expressed by UNI-​Europa and ETUC regard­ing the need to pro­vide more seri­ous guar­an­tees for so-​called “atyp­i­cal” work­ers, includ­ing those who exer­cise their activ­i­ty in a non-​salaried con­text, not sub­ject to nation­al labour leg­is­la­tion. […]
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European pillar of social rights | 2nd consultation round

09.10.2017 Updated on 13.05.2018 Europe, Precarious work, Social dialogue, Working relationship

EU Commission logo

As announced in a pre­vi­ous arti­cle, on the 21 September 2017, the European Commission engaged the sec­ond round of con­sul­ta­tions of social part­ners on a pos­si­ble review of Directive 91/​533/​CEE (regard­ing the oblig­a­tion to inform work­ers on employ­ment con­di­tions), with­in the scope of imple­ment­ing the European Pillar of social rights. This doc­u­ment is acces­si­ble here.

As the Commission notes, “there is a grow­ing chal­lenge to define and apply appro­pri­ate rights for many work­ers in new and non-​standard forms of employ­ment rela­tion­ships. Such forms of work are cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for peo­ple to enter or remain in the labour mar­ket and the flex­i­bil­i­ty they offer can be a mat­ter of per­son­al choice. […]
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Will the EU ensure social protection for the self-employed?

22.09.2017 Updated on 13.05.2018 Europe, Labour rights, Precarious work, Working relationship

ETUC meeting | Paris

With the active col­lab­o­ra­tion of EAEA, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is pur­su­ing its project ded­i­cat­ed to self-​employed work­ers. Within the scope of this project, a work­shop focus­ing on the social pro­tec­tion issue was organ­ised in Paris on 6 – 7 September 2017.

Choosing the moment when peo­ple are return­ing to work in 2017 to hold this work­shop owes noth­ing to chance. The European Commission has just com­plet­ed a first round of con­sul­ta­tion on the oppor­tu­ni­ty of review­ing the 91/​533/​CEE direc­tive (relat­ing to the writ­ten state­ment) and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a leg­isla­tive ini­tia­tive aimed at guar­an­tee­ing work­ers equal access to social pro­tec­tion, regard­less of their work­ing rela­tion­ship. […]
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Europe | Atypical work in the arts, entertainment and media sector

14.09.2016 Updated on 13.05.2018 Decent work, Europe, Fundamental rights, Labour rights, Precarious work, Working relationship

Atypical work

On 8 and 9 September 2016, the final con­fer­ence took place in Brussels of the joint FIM, FIA, UNI-​MEI and EFJ project focus­ing on the future of work and atyp­i­cal work­ing in the arts, enter­tain­ment and media sec­tor. It was held in the European Parliament and the premis­es of the European Economic and Social Committee.

Besides rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the four organ­is­ing fed­er­a­tions, the con­fer­ence wel­comed European and nation­al par­lia­men­tar­i­ans, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the European Commission, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the European Trade Unions Confederation (ETUC), as well as jurists, spe­cialised in social law.

Detailed pro­gramme and list of speakers

Following on four the­mat­ic work­shops, the con­fer­ence was an oppor­tu­ni­ty for pre­sen­ta­tions and opin­ions of both legal and polit­i­cal nature from numer­ous speak­ers. […]
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