In Austria, a new collective agreement will enter into force at the end of 2021 for all employees of companies in the trade sector
The agreement will reform the salary schedule and aims at uniformising and reducing the salary levels, and “to create a modern scheme of employment groups, obtain more legal certainty in job grading”
On 5 October 2020, the Indonesian Parliament adopted the “Omnibus Bill on Job Creation” to favour investments and positively impact employment in the country.
The labour law component of the Bill introduces important changes for employers on minimum wages, outsourcing and temporary contracts, severance payment, unemployment and other matters.
The Adecco Group released the paper “Employability, not only employment. VET, apprenticeships and the urgent need to bridge the skills gap in a post-Covid world”
Vocational education training (VET) and apprenticeships are the suggested tools to close this gap.
Once the obstacles for their best use are defined, a coordinated approach is suggested.
This short paper provides interesting examples on how social partners have been able to include the informal sector during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.