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This report describes how the provisions of the 2023 Council recommendation on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion are implemented across Member States and presents the progress that has been achieved since 2022. In particular, it shows the main relevant reforms that have been conducted since the adoption of the Recommendation.

It covers the main areas for action outlined in the Recommendation: i) adequacy of income support; ii) coverage of persons lacking sufficient resources; iii) improving take-up of support; iv) promoting labour market activation of those furthest away from the labour market; v) ensuring effective and equal access to enabling and essential services; vi) providing individualised support; and vii) ensuring appropriate governance and monitoring.

This report is structured in two parts: Part 1 provides a horizontal analysis of each aspect of the Council recommendation, while Part 2 provides an overview of the current situation in each Member State in the form of country profiles. 

This report analyses and compares the content of 94 collective agreements in three low-paid sectors – manufacture of food, leather, textiles and clothes; residential and social care; and retail – across 11 EU Member States and Norway. The report examines how collective bargaining regulates working conditions beyond wages and how these topics have evolved between 2015 and 2022. The findings show that collective agreements improve the job quality of workers in low-paid sectors beyond their pay. In addition to securing higher earnings, through additional bonuses and allowances for example, agreements also provide non-monetary benefits and opportunities for career advancement. The report finds that collective agreements focus increasingly on the well-being of employees, work–life balance or special protection for both younger and older workers.

EU leaders and social partners met in Brussels for the Tripartite Social Summit. The main theme of the summit was ‘Making Europe stronger in a changing world that delivers for workers and enterprises’.

The participants discussed the following issues:

• A stronger Union economically and politically
• Investing in productivity, affordable housing and quality jobs

This article provides an update of some of the most important aspects of working time regulation in the European Union, including:

• statutory limits on weekly working time
• annual leave entitlements, as set by law and collective agreements
• estimates of average collectively agreed normal working time, including examples in five specific sectors: chemicals, metalworking, banking, retail and public administration.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace is finding its way into collective bargaining agreements. The EU’s AI Act entered into force in August 2024. This triggered government initiatives on AI in several Member States, but also had implications for the regulation of AI in collective bargaining agreements and social partner initiatives. This topic also emerges as a field of industrial relations research, both at European and national level. This article provides an overview based on information from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents relating to working life developments in 2024.

This year’s report presents the minimum wage rates for 2025 and how they were set and uprated during 2024. It includes information on countries with and without national minimum wages. In addition, it provides the first comparative overview of how Member States have transposed the Minimum Wage Directive and presents new estimates of the proportion of minimum wage earners and their ability to afford housing. Finally, it summarises research on minimum wages published during 2024.

The report explores the critical role of social dialogue in advancing decent work, ensuring a fair labour income distribution, addressing the challenges of the digital and green transitions and delivering a renewed social contract for peace and prosperity.

Date: 25 November 2024

Time: 13:00 – 14:00 Irish Time,

14:00 - 15:00 Central European Time

ONLINE EVENT

Eurofound is delighted to invite you to register for its interactive webinar looking at the human-robot interaction in the workplace, with a live Q&A.

As advanced robots become more complex and prevalent in modern work environments, understanding how workers and robots interact and the implications for work organisation and working conditions is crucial for robots’ successful integration into the workplace.

Despite the many benefits, there are lingering concerns around the requirement for workers to continually adapt to new or changing tasks and roles, the possibility of monitoring workers’ activities at an unprecedented level of granularity, diminished autonomy and control over the pace of work, and the emergence of new health and safety risks, including of a psychosocial nature.  

Join this #AskTheExpert webinar, where Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound researchers Sara Riso and Dragoș Adăscăliței about the opportunities and challenges that come with closer human–robot interaction, and whether automation can bring in a productivity boost which could revolutionise the economy and labour market in Europe. 

Don’t miss the opportunity! Join the debate and a LIVE Q&A via an online chat.

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This 2024 annual review of minimum wages provides a synopsis of minimum wage setting during 2023 in the EU27 and Norway. It reports in detail on the processes and outcomes of setting the minimum wage rates for 2024 and beyond. It investigates the extent to which minimum wage earners were affected by the cost-of-living crisis and shows how minimum wage workers are distributed across households over the entire income distribution. The report also addresses the criteria that minimum wage setters considered when setting the new rates for 2024 and to what extent these criteria already include the minimum elements mentioned in Article 5 of the EU Minimum Wage Directive. It provides some initial insights into Member States’ activities around the transposition of the directive, which was a moving target at the time of drafting the report. Finally, an overview of the latest minimum wage research related to the EU27 and Norway completes this report.

Έκδοση της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής - Γενική Διεύθυνση Απασχόληση, Κοινωνικές Υποθέσεις και Κοινωνική Ένταξη:

The objective of the study is to gather evidence and to better understand the challenges, opportunities and trends in relation to the flexibility of working time and work location, with a focus on telework and the right to disconnect. 

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