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Newsletter February, 2023

Paying attention: A Report on Agency Work and Wages (an Adecco report)

February, 2023
  • In a  new report, Adecco, in collaboration with Ius Laboris, analysed the wages of Adecco associates from 17 countries compared to national minimum wages.
  • It shows that agency work can be a model for the flexibility workers and businesses look for in this digital age of rapid economic change, allowing agency workers to make a decent living.
  • The paper also looks into the concept of wage and wage setting more generally in these times of inflation.
Newsletter January, 2023

Prism signed an agreement on the forward-looking management of jobs and skills

January, 2023
  • On 7 October 2022, Prism'emploi adopted an agreement for its permanent employees on the management of jobs and skills (gestion prévisionnelle des emplois et des compétences,GPEC).
Newsletter February, 2022

World Employment Confederation-Europe and UNI-Europa, adopted joint recommendations for sustaining economic and social recovery

February, 2022
  • On 1 February 2022, the World Employment Confederation-Europe (WEC Europe) and the European trade union UNI-Europe have reached an important understanding by signing the Joint Recommendations for the sector's recovery.
Newsletter February, 2022

World Employment Confederation-Europe and UNI-Europa, adopted joint recommendations for sustaining economic and social recovery

February, 2022
  • On 1 February 2022, the World Employment Confederation-Europe (WEC Europe) and the European trade union UNI-Europe have reached an important understanding by signing the Joint Recommendations for the sector's recovery.
Newsletter November, 2021

Agency Work can be a leading model for Online Platforms

November, 2021
  • The well-regulated agency work model facilitates the flexibility of and access to a diverse jobs market, enabling individuals to enjoy genuine independent or self-employed status without compromising their social rights and employment protections
  • For these reasons, agency work can be a leading model for the platform work economy.
Newsletter August, 2021

Italy: Law No 106/21 and its innovations concerning fixed-term contracts

August, 2021
  • On 24 July, Law no. 106/2021 was published in the Official Gazette, turning into Law, with amendments, Decree Law no. 73(the so-called Support Decree-bis), which also includes the text of Decree Law no. 99 of 30 June 2021.
  • art. 41-bis, the legislator has made significant changes to the discipline of the fixed-term contract.
Newsletter June, 2021

WEC-Europe launches the Manifesto “Recovery, Reform and Resilience”

June, 2021
  • WEC-Europe calls for national policies to focus on recovery, reform and resilience. 
  • It details how the European Union can be supporting its Member States in the recovery phase. 
Newsletter March, 2021

Dutch Courts ruled on the classification of platform workers and government advisory group view

March, 2021
  • The classification of platform workers is unclear in the Netherlands, despite recent Court decisions and a report from the Labour Inspectorate
  • Recently, an advisory bipartite Committee highlighted the “need for a political and policy response in the short term to this discussion”

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