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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States
Document EMPL-AM-792013 · COM(2026)0510 – 2026/0137(NLE)
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| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
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| (-1) The European Parliament welcomes the Commission's proposal for fully updated employment guidelines for the Member States, in particular its focus on job quality, education and skills, new technologies, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management, poverty reduction, affordable housing and tackling labour and skills shortages. The European Parliament, with a view to strengthening democratic decision-making, reiterates its call to be involved in setting the Integrated Guidelines at Union level on an equal footing with the Council, in line with its legislative resolutions of 8 July 2015, 19 April 2018, 10 July 2020, 18 October 2022, 23 October 2024 and 8 October 2025 on the relevant proposals for Council decisions on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. | (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of quality employment and improving working conditions, a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, balanced economic growth, a high-level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), and to ensure that labour markets and workplaces are adequately adapted to the impacts of climate change including extreme heat and other increasingly frequent or severe climate-related hazards. Member States are to regard promoting quality employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. |
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| (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. | (1) Member States and the Union shall work towards developing a coordinated employment strategy, in particular by promoting the creation of a skilled, educated and adaptable workforce, as well as resilient and inclusive labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, as well as balanced economic growth, in accordance with Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (hereinafter: TEU). Member States shall regard the promotion of employment as a matter of common interest and shall coordinate their related actions within the Council, without prejudice to the priority of the native population with regard to the right to employment. |
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
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| (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. | (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled and trained workforce, quality employment, strong workers’ rights, collective bargaining and inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full and quality employment, social progress, upward social convergence and the reduction of inequalities, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. |
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
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| (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. | (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of quality employment and improving working conditions, a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. |
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| (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. | (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, balanced economic and a highly competitive social market economy growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. |
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| (1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States are to regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. | (1) Member States and the Union should work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and in particular for the promotion of a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as inclusive and resilient labour markets, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, and balanced economic growth laid down in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Member States should regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and to coordinate their action in that respect within the Council. |
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| (2) The Union is to combat social exclusion and discrimination, and to promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations and the protection of the rights of the child as laid down in Article 3 TEU. In defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union is to take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health as laid down in Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). | (2) The Union is to combat social exclusion and discrimination, and to promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations and the protection of the rights of the child as laid down in Article 3 TEU. In defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union is to give full effect to requirements linked to the promotion of full and quality employment, decent working conditions, strong labour rights, collective bargaining, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health as laid down in Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). |
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| (2) The Union is to combat social exclusion and discrimination, and to promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations and the protection of the rights of the child as laid down in Article 3 TEU. In defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union is to take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health as laid down in Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). | (2) Pursuant to Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), the Union shall combat social exclusion and discrimination and promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men, solidarity between generations, and the protection of the rights of the child. Pursuant to Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), in defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union shall take into account the requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training, and protection of human health and dignity. |
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| (2a) In accordance with Article 3 of the TEU, the Union shall work for the wellbeing of its peoples and promote social, scientific and technical progress. Employment policies should therefore prioritise the mobilisation of the available workforce, the improvement of wages and working conditions, training and investment in innovation and productivity, rather than the structural reliance on a low-cost workforce from third countries at low cost to meet the needs of businesses – a practice which reflects an economic approach contrary to European values. |
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| (3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented an integrated policy coordination framework for economic and employment policies in the context of the European Semester (4 ). The European Semester is aligned with the Competitiveness Compass, which provides a framework to boost competitiveness by closing the innovation gap, decarbonising our economy, reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security. The Compass identifies skills, quality jobs and social fairness among the horizontal enablers. The European Semester also integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in November 2017 (5 ). It relies on the Social Scoreboard as its monitoring tool. The Social Scoreboard also provides the basis for an analysis of risks and challenges to upward social convergence in the Union, in the framework of the Social Convergence Framework (6 ). The European Semester provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. The Semester is also complemented by the Digital Decade Policy Programme governance and recommendations. | (3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented an integrated policy coordination framework for economic and employment policies in the context of the European Semester (4 ). The European Semester should ensure that economic and competitiveness objectives support, and do not undermine, full and quality employment, workers’ rights, collective bargaining, adequate wages, social protection and upward social convergence. The European Semester also integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in November 2017 (5 ). It relies on the Social Scoreboard as its monitoring tool. The Social Scoreboard also provides the basis for an analysis of risks and challenges to upward social convergence in the Union, in the framework of the Social Convergence Framework (6 ). The European Semester should ensure the systematic, meaningful and timely involvement of social partners, with particular regard to trade unions and workers’ representatives, in the design, implementation and monitoring of employment, social and economic policies, while fully respecting their autonomy and the right to collective bargaining and collective action. The Semester is also complemented by the Digital Decade Policy Programme governance and recommendations. |
| 4 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). | 4 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). |
| 5 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). | 5 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). |
| 6 See Art. 3(3)b and recital 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024. | 6 See Art. 3(3)b and recital 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024. |
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| (3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented an integrated policy coordination framework for economic and employment policies in the context of the European Semester (4 ). The European Semester is aligned with the Competitiveness Compass, which provides a framework to boost competitiveness by closing the innovation gap, decarbonising our economy, reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security. The Compass identifies skills, quality jobs and social fairness among the horizontal enablers. The European Semester also integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in November 2017 (5 ). It relies on the Social Scoreboard as its monitoring tool. The Social Scoreboard also provides the basis for an analysis of risks and challenges to upward social convergence in the Union, in the framework of the Social Convergence Framework (6 ). The European Semester provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. The Semester is also complemented by the Digital Decade Policy Programme governance and recommendations. | (3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented an integrated policy coordination framework for economic and employment policies in the context of the European Semester (4 ). The European Semester is aligned with the Competitiveness Compass, which provides a framework to boost competitiveness by closing the innovation gap, decarbonising our economy, reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security. The Compass identifies skills, quality jobs and social fairness among the horizontal enablers, which are essential to achieving the Compass’s three pillars and addressing skills and labour shortages hampering growth. The European Semester also integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in November 2017 (5 ). It relies on the Social Scoreboard as its monitoring tool. The Social Scoreboard also provides the basis for an analysis of risks and challenges to upward social convergence in the Union, in the framework of the Social Convergence Framework (6 ). The European Semester provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. The Semester is also complemented by the Digital Decade Policy Programme governance and recommendations. |
| 4 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). | 4 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). |
| 5 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). | 5 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). |
| 6 See Art. 3(3)b and recital 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024. | 6 See Art. 3(3)b and recital 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented an integrated policy coordination framework for economic and employment policies in the context of the European Semester (4 ). The European Semester is aligned with the Competitiveness Compass, which provides a framework to boost competitiveness by closing the innovation gap, decarbonising our economy, reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security. The Compass identifies skills, quality jobs and social fairness among the horizontal enablers. The European Semester also integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in November 2017 (5 ). It relies on the Social Scoreboard as its monitoring tool. The Social Scoreboard also provides the basis for an analysis of risks and challenges to upward social convergence in the Union, in the framework of the Social Convergence Framework (6 ). The European Semester provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. The Semester is also complemented by the Digital Decade Policy Programme governance and recommendations. | (3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented an integrated policy coordination framework for economic and employment policies in the context of the European Semester (4 ). The European Semester is aligned with the Competitiveness Compass, which provides a framework to boost competitiveness by closing the innovation gap, decarbonising our economy, reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security. The Compass identifies skills, quality jobs and social fairness among the horizontal enablers. The European Semester also integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in November 2017 (5 ). It relies on the Social Scoreboard as its monitoring tool. The Social Scoreboard also provides the basis for an analysis of risks and challenges to upward social convergence in the Union, in the framework of the Social Convergence Framework (6 ). The European Semester provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders, and supports the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations. The Semester is also complemented by the Digital Decade Policy Programme governance and recommendations. |
| 4 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). | 4 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). |
| 5 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). | 5 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). |
| 6 See Art. 3(3)b and recital 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024. | 6 See Art. 3(3)b and recital 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024. |
Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Georgiana Teodorescu, Marlena Maląg, Francesco Torselli, Geadis Geadi, Lara Magoni
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| (3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented an integrated policy coordination framework for economic and employment policies in the context of the European Semester (4 ). The European Semester is aligned with the Competitiveness Compass, which provides a framework to boost competitiveness by closing the innovation gap, decarbonising our economy, reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security. The Compass identifies skills, quality jobs and social fairness among the horizontal enablers. The European Semester also integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in November 2017 (5 ). It relies on the Social Scoreboard as its monitoring tool. The Social Scoreboard also provides the basis for an analysis of risks and challenges to upward social convergence in the Union, in the framework of the Social Convergence Framework (6 ). The European Semester provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. The Semester is also complemented by the Digital Decade Policy Programme governance and recommendations. | (3) In accordance with the TFEU, the Union has developed and implemented an integrated policy coordination framework for economic and employment policies in the context of the European Semester (4 ). The European Semester is aligned with the Competitiveness Compass, which provides a framework to boost competitiveness by closing the innovation gap, reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security. The Compass identifies skills, quality jobs and social fairness among the horizontal enablers. The European Semester also integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in November 2017 (5 ). It relies on the Social Scoreboard as its monitoring tool. The Social Scoreboard also provides the basis for an analysis of risks and challenges to upward social convergence in the Union, in the framework of the Social Convergence Framework (6 ). The European Semester provides for strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. The Semester is also complemented by the Digital Decade Policy Programme governance and recommendations. |
| 4 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). | 4 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). |
| 5 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). | 5 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). |
| 6 See Art. 3(3)b and recital 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024. | 6 See Art. 3(3)b and recital 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024. |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (3a) Skills shortages and skills gaps, insufficient speed of economic transformation, and fragmented and inefficient governance continue to hamper the Union’s competitiveness. As highlighted in the Draghi, Letta and Niinistö reports, these challenges constitute a barrier to productivity growth and innovation and risk slowing down the green and digital transitions. The 2026 Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report1a further highlights that overly stringent regulation and cumbersome recognition procedures for skills and professional qualifications create barriers to entry and reduce labour market mobility, thereby contributing to skills mismatches and labour shortages at both national and Union level. In this context, the Union of Skills aims to support the development of quality, inclusive and adaptable education, training and skills systems in order to strengthen the Union’s competitiveness. Enhanced skills intelligence at Union level is essential to enable more effective and targeted policy responses. | |
| 1a The 2026 Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (3a) The Quality Jobs Roadmap (‘the Roadmap’) is a renewed commitment to fostering quality jobs in a competitive economy. A quality job, comprising, inter alia, fair wages, secure and standard employment, adequate social protection, occupational safety and health, equal opportunities, access to skills, training and career development, quality working conditions, and an effective voice for workers through social dialogue, collective bargaining and democracy at work, is a prerequisite for a competitive, resilient and socially just Union. The Roadmap outlines initiatives that are grounded in the principles of the European social market economy, social progress and full employment. Social partners play a central role in this endeavour. |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (3b) The Union continues to face significant labour and skills shortages across several sectors and levels of qualification, which weigh on its competitiveness and economic resilience. The 2026 Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report highlights that labour shortages and skills gaps remain a major challenge for the Union’s capacity to innovate and scale up, with nearly 80 % of companies identifying them as the second biggest obstacle to investment and growth. These shortages are expected to intensify in sectors undergoing rapid transformation, in particular those linked to the green and digital transitions and current security challenges, where many of the emerging jobs are already affected by persistent labour shortages. In addition, the report points to structural deficits in digital skills, noting that only around 60 % of Europeans possess basic digital skills, while the availability of ICT specialists with advanced skills remains insufficient; |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (3b) The recently adopted Council Recommendation on Human Capital explicitly highlights the crucial role of human capital and future-oriented education and skills in enhancing the Union’s competitiveness and strategic autonomy, strengthening preparedness and supporting sustainable prosperity. Investments in human capital should be understood as investments in people, their skills, well-being and ability to participate fully in society and the labour market, with skills development supporting the green and digital transitions, promoting quality jobs, fair working conditions, social inclusion and upward social convergence. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (3c) The European Anti-Poverty Strategy (‘the Strategy’) sets out a comprehensive approach to prevent and protect against poverty across the Union. Tackling poverty requires an integrated approach, addressing its structural drivers and ensuring effective access to quality jobs, adequate income support and quality services, including education and training, care, health services, energy, transport, digital communications, water and sanitation and financial services, as well as affordable and adequate housing. |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (3c) Stresses that a skilled and adaptable workforce is a prerequisite for strengthening Europe’s competitiveness, productivity and economic resilience; underlines that employment and skills policies should be closely linked with industrial, investment and competitiveness policies in order to support sustainable job creation, strengthen Europe’s productive capacity and enable companies to invest, grow and innovate; |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (3d) Highlights that labour and skills shortages are increasingly structural and affect strategic sectors and essential services across the Union; stresses that demographic change, skills mismatches, low labour-market participation rates and regional disparities require targeted and long-term policy responses based on the specific needs of national and regional labour markets. Underlines the importance of reliable and timely skills intelligence for anticipating changes in labour demand and identifying persistent shortages and surpluses; calls on the Member States to strengthen cooperation between employers, education and training providers, public employment services, social partners and regional authorities, and to ensure that skills intelligence effectively informs education and training provision, career guidance and investment in skills; |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix and strengthening the Union’s competitiveness by supporting human capital development through lifelong learning, vocational education and training, and targeted training initiatives, while promoting the development of both technical and transversal skills and encouraging a culture of continuous learning and adaptability in response to the Union’s economic, technological and security challenges, and to the current emerging economic needs. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). | 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable, socially inclusive and digitally sovereign economy, ensure fair wages and decent working conditions, foster innovation, democracy at work, social dialogue and collective bargaining, promote social justice, equal opportunities and upward socio-economic convergence, support and invest in children and young people, tackle inequalities and regional disparities and eradicate poverty. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). | 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of that framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (hereinafter: the ‘guidelines’) set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, as set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7), constitute the integrated guidelines. The employment guidelines should guide policy implementation at Member State and Union level, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate mix of economic, employment and social policies. It is expected to generate positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience and respond effectively to medium- and long-term challenges, including the need to enhance competitiveness, innovation and productivity, as well as the Union’s strategic autonomy. The implementation of employment policies should also take into account the specific needs of island, mountainous, border and demographically shrinking regions, in accordance with Article 174 TFEU, in order to limit depopulation, human capital outflows and regional disparities. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should be consistent with the Union’s fair transition towards a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). | 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy, and ensure decent working conditions, promote democracy at work, social dialogue and collective bargaining, social justice, equal opportunities and upward social convergence. They should also tackle inequalities, eradicate poverty and fight social exclusion. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). | 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience as well as job quality, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy, in particular by supporting workers and employers to adapt to the changing world of work and ensure future-proof upskilling and reskilling measures. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). | 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Georgiana Teodorescu, Marlena Maląg, Francesco Torselli, Geadis Geadi, Lara Magoni
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States, in full compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality and without prejudice to the exclusive competence of Member States as regards the determination of pay, the right of association, the right to strike and the right to impose lock-outs, as laid down in Article 153(5) TFEU. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). | 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
This amendment restates the explicit Treaty carve-out under Article 153(5) TFEU for pay and industrial relations matters, in order to prevent the Employment Guidelines from being read as a basis for de facto EU harmonisation of wage-setting or collective bargaining systems, which remain a national competence.
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of this framework, the Guidelines for the Employment Policies of the Member States (hereinafter: the Guidelines) set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the Broad Guidelines for the Economic Policies of the Member States and of the Union, as set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7), constitute the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines should guide the implementation of policies at both Member State and Union level, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate combination of economic, employment and social policies. It is expected to generate positive spillover effects for labour markets and society as a whole, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively address medium- and long-term challenges, including the need to enhance competitiveness, innovation and productivity, as well as the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should be aligned with the Union’s transition towards a digitally sovereign economy, in which the sovereignty of the Member States is not constrained. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies should ensure full and quality employment, social progress, upward social convergence, stronger workers’ rights, adequate wages and reduced inequalities. Economic, employment and social policies should strengthen social resilience and ensure that competitiveness, innovation and productivity gains translate into higher wages, better working conditions, improved work-life balance and improved living standards. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). | 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
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| (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7 ), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, including the need to strengthen competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies of the Union and the Member States should go hand in hand with the Union’s fair transition to a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable and digitally sovereign economy. | (4) As part of this framework, the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States set out in the Annex to this Decision, together with the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union, set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (7), form the Integrated Guidelines. The Employment Guidelines should provide guidance to the Member States, whilst fully respecting their national competences and the principle of subsidiarity, while implementing their employment policies. The resulting set of coordinated Union and national policies constitutes an appropriate economic, employment and social policy mix. It should achieve positive spill-over effects for labour markets and society at large, strengthen economic and social resilience, and effectively respond to medium- and longer-term challenges, especially competitiveness, innovation and productivity and the Union’s strategic autonomy. The economic and employment policies should take account of developments in the global economic, demographic and geopolitical context in order to safeguard the competitiveness, prosperity and resilience in the Member States. |
| 7 Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27). |
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| (5) The Employment Guidelines are consistent with the revised economic governance framework of the Union, which entered into force on 30 April 2024 (8 ), and with existing Union legislation and Union initiatives. These include inter alia the Commission Communications on the Union of Skills, of 5 March 2025 (9 ), and on the European Union’s Anti-Poverty Strategy: addressing and preventing poverty from childhood to old age, of 6 May 2026, and the Council Recommendation on Human Capital in the European Union of 9 March 2026. | (5) The employment guidelines are consistent with the Union’s revised economic governance framework, which entered into force on 30 April 2024 (8), as well as with the Union initiatives and legislation currently in force. These include, inter alia, the Commission communications on the Union of Skills of 5 March 2025 (9), and on the European Union strategy for the eradication of poverty: tackling and preventing poverty from childhood to old age, of 6 May 2026, and the Council Recommendation on human capital in the European Union of 9 March 2026. Skills development policies should, as a matter of priority, contribute to retaining and bringing back skilled human resources to Member States that have been affected by long-term outflows of workers, thereby strengthening the economic and social cohesion of the Union. |
| 8 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). | |
| 9 COM(2025) 90 final. |
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| (5) The Employment Guidelines are consistent with the revised economic governance framework of the Union, which entered into force on 30 April 2024 (8 ), and with existing Union legislation and Union initiatives. These include inter alia the Commission Communications on the Union of Skills, of 5 March 2025 (9 ), and on the European Union’s Anti-Poverty Strategy: addressing and preventing poverty from childhood to old age, of 6 May 2026, and the Council Recommendation on Human Capital in the European Union of 9 March 2026. | (5) The Employment Guidelines should be implemented in a manner consistent with the revised economic governance framework of the Union, while ensuring that the implementation of the economic governance framework does not undermine necessary public investment in employment, social protection, public services, housing, education, healthcare and a just transition , and with existing Union legislation and Union initiatives. These include inter alia the Commission Communications on the Union of Skills, of 5 March 2025 (9 ), and on the European Union’s Anti-Poverty Strategy: addressing and preventing poverty from childhood to old age, of 6 May 2026, and the Council Recommendation on Human Capital in the European Union of 9 March 2026. |
| 8 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). | |
| 9 COM(2025) 90 final. | 9 COM(2025) 90 final. |
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| (5) The Employment Guidelines are consistent with the revised economic governance framework of the Union, which entered into force on 30 April 2024 (8 ), and with existing Union legislation and Union initiatives. These include inter alia the Commission Communications on the Union of Skills, of 5 March 2025 (9 ), and on the European Union’s Anti-Poverty Strategy: addressing and preventing poverty from childhood to old age, of 6 May 2026, and the Council Recommendation on Human Capital in the European Union of 9 March 2026. | (5) The Employment Guidelines are consistent with the revised economic governance framework of the Union, which entered into force on 30 April 2024 (8 ), and with existing Union legislation and Union initiatives. These include inter alia the Commission Communications on the Union of Skills, of 5 March 2025 (9 ), on a Quality Jobs Roadmap of 4 December 2025 and on the European Union’s Anti-Poverty Strategy: addressing and preventing poverty from childhood to old age and breaking the cycle of child poverty: strengthening the European Child Guarantee, of 6 May 2026, and the Council Recommendation on Human Capital in the European Union of 9 March 2026. |
| 8 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). | 8 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). |
| 9 COM(2025) 90 final. | 9 COM(2025) 90 final. |
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| (5) The Employment Guidelines are consistent with the revised economic governance framework of the Union, which entered into force on 30 April 2024 (8 ), and with existing Union legislation and Union initiatives. These include inter alia the Commission Communications on the Union of Skills, of 5 March 2025 (9 ), and on the European Union’s Anti-Poverty Strategy: addressing and preventing poverty from childhood to old age, of 6 May 2026, and the Council Recommendation on Human Capital in the European Union of 9 March 2026. | (5) The Employment Guidelines contribute to the full implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the Union headline targets for 2030 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. They are consistent with existing Union legislation and Union initiatives. These include inter alia the Commission Communications on the Union of Skills, of 5 March 2025 (9 ), and on the European Union’s Anti-Poverty Strategy: addressing and preventing poverty from childhood to old age, of 6 May 2026, the Council Recommendation on Human Capital in the European Union of 9 March 2026, and the European Union's Anti-Poverty Strategy of 6 May 2026 |
| 8 Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 on the effective coordination of economic policies and on multilateral budgetary surveillance and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 (OJ L, 2024/1263, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1263/oj). | |
| 9 COM(2025) 90 final. | 9 COM(2025) 90 final. |
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| (5a) Member States should support their native populations and safeguard demographic and social cohesion by prioritising policies that enable their citizens to start and raise families, remain in their local communities, and access stable and quality employment. At the same time, emphasis should be placed on fully mobilising the domestic workforce, reintegrating unemployed persons into the labour market, encouraging young people who have emigrated to return, and creating sustainable employment opportunities for future generations. |
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| (6) The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out twenty principles and rights to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems. They are structured around equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. These principles and rights give strategic direction to the Union. The European Pillar of Social Rights, with its accompanying Social Scoreboard, also constitutes guidance to monitor the employment, skills and social performance of Member States and upward social convergence in the Union, in the European Semester. The Pillar drives reforms and investments at national, regional and local levels, allowing to reconcile the ‘social’ and the ‘market’ in today’s modern economy. | (6) The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out twenty principles and rights intended to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems. They are structured around equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. Those principles and rights provide strategic direction for the Union. The European Pillar of Social Rights, together with the accompanying Social Scoreboard, also provides guidance for monitoring the employment, skills and social performance of the Member States, as well as upward social convergence in the Union, within the framework of the European Semester. The Pillar promotes reforms and investment at national, regional and local level, enabling the ‘social’ and ‘market’ dimensions to be combined in today’s modern economy. Social protection and inclusion also require effective protection of housing and genuine access to justice. In accordance with Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the principle of effectiveness of Union law and, where applicable, Articles 6 and 7 of Directive 93/13/EEC, Member States should ensure that procedural rules and time limits do not make it impossible or excessively difficult for citizens to exercise their rights. In particular, where enforcement proceedings may lead to the loss of a home, effective judicial review should be ensured before irreversible consequences occur, with particular attention to the protection of the primary residence, especially where vulnerable debtors and socially vulnerable groups are concerned. |
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| (6) The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out twenty principles and rights to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems. They are structured around equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. These principles and rights give strategic direction to the Union. The European Pillar of Social Rights, with its accompanying Social Scoreboard, also constitutes guidance to monitor the employment, skills and social performance of Member States and upward social convergence in the Union, in the European Semester. The Pillar drives reforms and investments at national, regional and local levels, allowing to reconcile the ‘social’ and the ‘market’ in today’s modern economy. | (6) The European Pillar of Social Rights acts as the EU’s social shield and compass for fairness in an age of rapid transformations and challenges to protect and empower citizens. It sets out twenty principles and rights to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems. They are structured around equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. These principles and rights give strategic direction to the Union and guide continued action in the employment and social policy field. The European Pillar of Social Rights, with its accompanying Social Scoreboard, also constitutes guidance to monitor the employment, skills and social performance of Member States and upward social convergence in the Union, in the European Semester. The Pillar drives reforms and investments at national, regional and local levels, allowing to reconcile the ‘social’ and the ‘market’ in today’s modern economy. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (6) The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out twenty principles and rights to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems. They are structured around equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. These principles and rights give strategic direction to the Union. The European Pillar of Social Rights, with its accompanying Social Scoreboard, also constitutes guidance to monitor the employment, skills and social performance of Member States and upward social convergence in the Union, in the European Semester. The Pillar drives reforms and investments at national, regional and local levels, allowing to reconcile the ‘social’ and the ‘market’ in today’s modern economy. | (6) The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out twenty principles and rights to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems. They are structured around equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. These principles and rights give strategic direction to the Union, ensuring that the transitions to climate-neutrality, environmental sustainability and digitalization are socially fair and just and preserve territorial cohesion. The European Pillar of Social Rights, with its accompanying Social Scoreboard, also constitutes guidance to monitor the employment, skills and social performance of Member States and upward social convergence in the Union, in the European Semester. The Pillar drives reforms and investments at national, regional and local levels, allowing to reconcile the ‘social’ and the ‘market’ in today’s modern economy, including by promoting the social economy. |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (6) The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out twenty principles and rights to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems. They are structured around equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. These principles and rights give strategic direction to the Union. The European Pillar of Social Rights, with its accompanying Social Scoreboard, also constitutes guidance to monitor the employment, skills and social performance of Member States and upward social convergence in the Union, in the European Semester. The Pillar drives reforms and investments at national, regional and local levels, allowing to reconcile the ‘social’ and the ‘market’ in today’s modern economy. | (6) The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out twenty principles and rights to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems. They are structured around equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion. These principles and rights give strategic direction to the Union. The European Pillar of Social Rights, with its accompanying Social Scoreboard, also constitutes guidance to monitor the employment, skills and social performance of Member States and upward social convergence in the Union, in the European Semester. The Pillar drives reforms and investments at national, regional and local levels, supporting competitive social market economy in today’s modern economy. |
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| (7) On 4 March 2021, the Commission put forward an Action Plan for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. This included ambitious yet realistic Union headline targets for 2030 on employment (at least 78% of the population aged 20-64 should be in employment), skills (at least 60% of all adults should participate in training every year) and poverty reduction (at least 15 million fewer people should be at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including 5 million children) (the ‘Union headline targets for 2030’). It also included complementary sub-targets, as well as a revised Social Scoreboard. The Union headline targets for 2030 were welcomed by the Heads of State or Government at the Porto Social Summit of May 2021 and by the June 2021 European Council. They support, together with the Social Scoreboard, the monitoring of progress towards the implementation of the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights in the European Semester. Against this background, Member States also set ambitious national targets which, taking due account of the starting position of each Member State, constitute an adequate contribution to the achievement of the three Union headline targets for 2030. | (7) On 4 March 2021, the Commission put forward an Action Plan for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. This included Union headline targets for 2030 on employment, skills and poverty reduction. These objectives remain indicative, and their implementation must take full account of the specific economic, social and demographic circumstances of each Member State, as well as their national competences. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (7) On 4 March 2021, the Commission put forward an Action Plan for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. This included ambitious yet realistic Union headline targets for 2030 on employment (at least 78% of the population aged 20-64 should be in employment), skills (at least 60% of all adults should participate in training every year) and poverty reduction (at least 15 million fewer people should be at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including 5 million children) (the ‘Union headline targets for 2030’). It also included complementary sub-targets, as well as a revised Social Scoreboard. The Union headline targets for 2030 were welcomed by the Heads of State or Government at the Porto Social Summit of May 2021 and by the June 2021 European Council. They support, together with the Social Scoreboard, the monitoring of progress towards the implementation of the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights in the European Semester. Against this background, Member States also set ambitious national targets which, taking due account of the starting position of each Member State, constitute an adequate contribution to the achievement of the three Union headline targets for 2030. | (7) On 4 March 2021, the Commission put forward an Action Plan for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights. This included ambitious yet realistic Union headline targets for 2030 on employment (at least 78% of the population aged 20-64 should be in employment), skills (at least 60% of all adults should participate in training every year) and poverty reduction (at least 15 million fewer people should be at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including 5 million children) (the ‘Union headline targets for 2030’). It also included complementary sub-targets, as well as a revised Social Scoreboard. As recognised by the Heads of State or Government at the Porto Social Summit on 8 May 2021, the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights will strengthen the Union’s drive towards a digital, green and fair transition and contribute to achieving upward social and economic convergence and addressing demographic challenges. The Heads of State or Government stressed that the social dimension, social dialogue and the active involvement of social partners are at the core of a highly competitive social market economy. The Union headline targets for 2030 were welcomed by the Heads of State or Government at the Porto Social Summit of May 2021 and by the June 2021 European Council. They support, together with the Social Scoreboard, the monitoring of progress towards the implementation of the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights in the European Semester. Against this background, Member States also set ambitious national targets which, taking due account of the starting position of each Member State, constitute an adequate contribution to the achievement of the three Union headline targets for 2030. |
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| (7a) In July 2026, the Commission adopted a Communication on the European Pillar of Social Rights, renewing its commitment to Social Europe ahead of the Pillar's 10th anniversary in 2027. It confirms the EU’s commitment to implementing the Pillar, takes stock of its progress, and outlines targeted measures to respond to emerging challenges through 3 priority areas for upcoming actions: addressing affordability, reducing inequalities and harnessing AI for the future of work. It highlights that investing in strong education systems, quality jobs, effective social protection and equal opportunities make Europe’s economy and societies more resilient and help to strengthen democracy and support competitiveness. |
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| (8a) Rising frequency and intensity of extreme heat and other climate-related hazards pose growing risks to workers’ health, safety and productivity, particularly for those in outdoor, physically demanding or poorly ventilated indoor occupations. Member States should ensure that occupational safety and health frameworks adequately anticipate, prevent and respond to these risks, in line with the Union's occupational safety and health strategic framework and relevant guidance from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. |
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| (8b) The Union has committed to closing the gender employment, pay and pension gaps as part of the headline targets for 2030 and the Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030. Directives on pay transparency and equal pay for equal work, on work-life balance for parents and carers, and on gender balance on corporate boards provide the legal framework, which Member States should transpose and enforce effectively. Persisting gaps in employment, pay, unpaid care work and pension outcomes between women and men continue to constrain the Union's growth potential, competitiveness and social cohesion, and should be addressed through a consistent, cross-cutting approach across all Employment Guidelines. |
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| (8c) Psychosocial risks, including work-related stress, burnout and workplace harassment, are among the most significant and fastest-growing causes of ill health, reduced productivity and premature labour market exit in the Union. These risks are compounded by intensifying workloads, precarious employment, algorithmic management and the blurring of boundaries between work and private life associated with digitalisation and telework. Member States should ensure that occupational safety and health frameworks adequately anticipate, prevent and address psychosocial risks. |
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| (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should observe national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. | (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should should respect and strengthen national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners, and support fair wages that enable a decent standard of living, sustainable growth and upward socio-economic and territorial convergence. Member States should ensure complete and effective implementation and enforcement of Directive (EU) 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages, as remaining in force following the judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-19/23 and prepare and implement collective-bargaining action plans where required by Article 4 of that Directive. Member States should also ensure complete transposition, effective implementation and enforcement of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, monitor the conformity and effectiveness of national measures, ensure wage transparency and encourage equal-pay action plans. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should observe national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. | (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should respect and strengthen national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners, with a view to providing fair wages that enable a decent standard of living, including in retirement, sustainable growth and upward socio-economic convergence. Such reforms should allow for a broad consideration of socio-economic factors, including improvements in sustainability, competitiveness, innovation, the promotion of quality jobs, decent working conditions, democracy at work, gender equality, prevention and reduction of in-work poverty, quality education, training, and skills, public health, social protection and inclusion, demographic change and the promotion of supplementary pensions, as well as real incomes. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. |
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| (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should observe national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. | (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should respect and strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining at all appropriate levels, support increased collective bargaining coverage and fully respect the autonomy of social partners, trade-union rights and the right to collective action. Social partners, and in particular trade unions representing workers, should be involved from the earliest stages and in a meaningful and timely manner in the preparation, adoption, implementation and evaluation of labour-market and social reforms. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should observe national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. | (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should observe national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. Their implementation should also take into account national, regional and sectoral labour-market conditions, including persistent shortages and surpluses, demographic challenges, braindrain and the specific needs of SMEs. |
Elena Donazzan, Chiara Gemma, Georgiana Teodorescu, Marlena Maląg, Francesco Torselli, Geadis Geadi, Lara Magoni
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| (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should observe national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. | (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms fall primarily within the competence of Member States and should fully observe national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners, without any form of top-down harmonisation of wage-setting mechanisms at Union level. |
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| (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should observe national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. | (9) The Integrated Guidelines serve as a basis for the country-specific recommendations addressed by the Council to Member States under the European Semester. While the Integrated Guidelines are addressed to Member States and the Union, they should be implemented in partnership with all national, regional and local authorities, closely involving parliaments, as well as social partners and representatives of civil society. Labour market and social reforms should fully respect national practices of social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as the autonomy of social partners. The importance of social dialogue in tackling challenges in the world of work was reaffirmed at the 2024 Val Duchesse Summit and in the Pact for European Social Dialogue signed in March 2025. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (9a) A coherent set of active labour market policies is needed to support labour market transitions, foster access to and participation in the labour market and promote quality employment, also in line with the active inclusion approach and in light of the green and digital transformations, as highlighted inter alia in the 2024 La Hulpe Declaration on the Future of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Adequate working conditions and occupational health and safety, including both the physical and mental health of workers, should be ensured. New technologies and evolving workplaces throughout the Union allow for more flexible working arrangements as well as improved productivity and work-life balance, whilst contributing to the Union’s green commitments, but should not come at the expense of working conditions, occupational health and safety, adequate social protection or established labour and social rights. Member States, in collaboration with the social partners, should ensure that new forms of work organisation translate into quality jobs, healthy and safe workplaces, decent working conditions, and work-life balance, while strengthening the European social model. Climate change and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, floods and other climate-related hazards, such as wildfires, are already affecting working conditions, workers’ health and safety, well-being and productivity. The Union and Member States should therefore ensure that workplaces and working arrangements are adapted to the changing climate, with particular attention to workers exposed to extreme heat and other climate-related occupational risks. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (9b) Discrimination in all its forms should be eliminated, gender equality ensured and the employment of groups that are under-represented in the labour market supported. Equal access and opportunities for all should be ensured and poverty and social exclusion eradicated, with special focus on vulnerable groups, by ensuring an effective functioning of labour markets and adequate and inclusive social protection systems, as set out in the Council Recommendations of 8 November 20191a and of 30 January 20231b. In addition, barriers to inclusive and future-oriented high-quality education and training, lifelong learning and labour-market participation should be removed. Member States should invest in early childhood education and care, in line with the European Child Guarantee and the Recommendation on the ‘Barcelona targets for 2030’. | |
| 1a Council Recommendation of 8 November 2019 on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed (OJ C 387, 15.11.2019, p. 1). | |
| 1b Council Recommendation of 30 January 2023 on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (OJ C 41, 3.2.2023, p. 1). |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (9c) Access to decent, sustainable and affordable housing, including through social housing, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities and social inclusion. Homelessness is the most severe form of poverty and social exclusion, negatively affecting people’s physical and mental health, well-being and quality of life, as well as their access to employment and other economic and social services. Homelessness should be tackled through a 'housing-first' approach, and the Union and the Member States should take the necessary actions to ensure access to decent, sustainable and affordable housing for all. |
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| (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. | (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty, ensure access to adequate and affordable housing, strengthen protection against housing insecurity, forced eviction and homelessness, including through effective protection of the primary residence of individuals and families facing financial hardship, and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. |
| 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). | 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. | (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus, the Social Climate Fund and the European Competitiveness Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. Investment in skills should take account of identified labour-market needs and structural shortages and support high-quality vocational education and training, apprenticeships and effective transitions into employment. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. |
| 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). | 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). |
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| (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. | (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. Resources dedicated to employment, social inclusion, education, housing, training and poverty reduction should remain fully dedicated to their social objectives and should not be diverted to defence or military expenditure. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. |
| 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). | 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). |
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| (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. | (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus, Just Transition Fund and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion particularly for people with disabilities and marginalised groups such as Roma, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. |
| 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). | 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. | (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, eradicate poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, eliminating discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. EU funding should also support measures to adapt workplaces and working conditions to climate-related risks, in particular in sectors and regions most exposed to climate change. For the funding period post-2027, the European Social Fund will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. |
| 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). | 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). |
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| (10) Member States should make full use of available EU funding, in particular the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to foster quality employment and skills, fight against poverty and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes fighting social exclusion, combatting discrimination, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, and promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period post-2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue promoting and strengthening integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. In the context of the overarching decarbonisation objectives of the Union, the Social Climate Fund (10 ) will be key in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users and vulnerable micro-enterprises. | (10) Member States should make full use of available Union funding, particularly through the European Social Fund Plus and the Social Climate Fund, to promote quality employment and skills, combat poverty, and support employment and social reforms and investments. This includes combating social exclusion and discrimination, tackling illegal migration that undermines the quality of employment, ensuring accessibility and inclusion, promoting upskilling and reskilling opportunities for the workforce, lifelong learning, and high-quality education and training for all. For the funding period after 2027, the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) will continue to promote and strengthen integrated efforts in these areas. The Employment Guidelines should inform the programming of the NRPPs. Within the framework of the Union’s overarching decarbonisation objectives, the Social Climate Fund (10) will be crucial in addressing the needs of vulnerable households, vulnerable transport users, and vulnerable micro-enterprises. |
| 10 Regulation (EU) 2023/955 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a Social Climate Fund and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 (OJ L 130, 16.5.2023, p. 1-51). |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| (10a) The European Parliament welcomes the Commission’s proposal for updated employment guidelines for the Member States, in particular its strong focus on job quality, skills and education as well as poverty reduction and social inclusion. The European Parliament, with a view to strengthening democratic decision-making, reiterates its call to be involved in setting the Integrated Guidelines at Union level on an equal footing with Council, in line with its legislative resolutions of 8 July 2015, 19 April 2018, 10 July 2020, 18 October 2022 and 23 October 2024 on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States. |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Angelika Winzig
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| (10a) Stresses that building strong administrative and technical capacity at national, regional and local level is essential for the effective use of EU funds; calls for increased investment in building administrative and technical capacity at local level; underlines the need for well-trained, skilled and efficient staff, supported by effective systems in managing authorities to ensure proper project preparation, compliance, monitoring and evaluation; emphasises that strengthened administrative capacity is a prerequisite for mobilising investment, reducing complexity and supporting growth. |
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| (10a) The Union and the Member States should implement and strengthen the Quality Jobs Roadmap and secure ambitious legislation on telework, the right to disconnect, algorithmic management and artificial intelligence at work, occupational safety and health, subcontracting and enforcement. |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (10b) Emphasises that upskilling and reskilling policies should respond to current and emerging labour-market needs and provide workers with skills that lead to sustainable employment and career progression; stresses that publicly supported training should be of high quality and that its effectiveness should be assessed against clear outcomes, including successful transitions into employment and occupations where labour demand is growing. Stresses that addressing Europe’s labour shortages requires a stronger focus on vocational education and training, apprenticeships and occupation-specific skills; calls on the Member States to increase the attractiveness, quality and labour-market relevance of VET and to strengthen work-based learning and cooperation between companies and training providers, particularly in sectors experiencing persistent labour shortages; |
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| (10c) Emphasises that effective training depends on the availability of teachers and trainers with current knowledge on the sustainable and green economy, energy efficiency and green and digital technologies; highlights that education and training institutions need to enhance the relevance of their training to competitive labour-market needs and equip learners, teachers and trainers with the relevant knowledge and skills; stresses that, in line with the Union of Skills, their role is critical in promoting the right skills and competences for both younger and older generations of workers, including appropriate reskilling and upskilling for persons affected by the green transition; underlines the potential of European Universities Alliances to strengthen cooperation, mobility and links between education, research, innovation and labour-market needs; stresses therefore that the education and training of teachers and trainers should be a top priority in skills response strategies at European, national, regional and local levels. |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (10d) Welcomes the forthcoming Skills Portability Initiative as an opportunity to reduce persistent barriers to labour mobility; calls for simpler, faster and increasingly digital procedures for the recognition and verification of skills and qualifications across the Union, while maintaining high quality and professional standards; stresses that the initiative should deliver practical benefits for workers and employers and reduce unnecessary administrative burdens; stresses that skills and qualifications should remain recognised and usable when workers move between employers, sectors or Member States; calls for greater transparency, comparability and portability of qualifications, professional experience, micro-credentials and skills acquired through formal, non-formal and informal learning, in order to facilitate labour mobility, improve skills matching and strengthen the functioning of the Single Market; |
Gheorghe Falcă, Miriam Lexmann, Niels Geuking, Viktor Weisz, Martine Kemp, Isabelle Le Callennec, Angelika Winzig
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| (10e) Reaffirms that the free movement of workers is a fundamental freedom and an essential component of the Single Market; stresses that fair and effective labour mobility can increase opportunities for workers, help companies access the skills they need and contribute to reducing labour-market imbalances between Member States and regions; Member States should address the risk of persistent brain drain, particularly from regions and Member States facing demographic decline and structural labour shortages, by improving opportunities for skills development, quality employment and career progression. Labour mobility should remain a source of opportunity for workers, while policies should also support the retention and return of talent and avoid reinforcing existing regional and sectoral imbalances. |
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| (11) The Employment Committee and the Social Protection Committee should monitor how the relevant policies are implemented in light of the Employment Guidelines, in line with their respective mandates under the TFEU. These Committees and the Council preparatory bodies involved in the coordination of economic and social policies should work closely together. Policy dialogue between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission should be maintained, in particular as regards the Employment Guidelines. | (11) The Employment Committee and the Social Protection Committee should monitor the implementation of the relevant policies in light of the Employment Guidelines, in accordance with their respective mandates under the TFEU. These Committees, together with the Council’s preparatory bodies involved in the coordination of economic and social policies, should cooperate closely. Policy dialogue between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission should continue, particularly with regard to the Employment Guidelines, with a specific focus on combating youth unemployment and addressing its links to the lack of adequate incentives and the phenomenon of illegal migration. |
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| (12a) The employment guidelines should neither define nor guide Member States’ immigration policies. As highlighted in a 2000 UN report1a, recourse to labour migration from third countries cannot constitute a structural response to labour shortages. Member States should retain full control over their migration policies and be able to prioritise the mobilisation of their labour force, training, the improvement of working conditions, increased productivity and investment in innovation and automation. | |
| 1a Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations? Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat ESA/P/WP.160 21 March 2000 |
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| (12a) Targeted measures should be adopted to support the return and retention of young people in rural, remote, island and border regions, through incentives for employment and entrepreneurship, access to funding, improved infrastructure and enhanced basic services. The aim should be to create sustainable employment opportunities and decent living conditions, enabling young people to choose these regions as places to live and pursue their professional careers. |
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| (12b) The employment guidelines should fully respect the Member States’ competences in tax matters and should not prejudge their choices regarding the taxation of labour or lead to the harmonisation of their tax policies. |
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| (12c) The definition and organisation of national pension systems fall within the competence of the Member States. The employment guidelines should fully respect this competence and must not, directly or indirectly, impose guidelines relating to the retirement age or the extension of working life. |
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| The Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (the ‘Employment Guidelines’), as set out in the Annex, are hereby adopted. The Employment Guidelines shall form part of the Integrated Guidelines. | The Guidelines for the Employment Policies of the Member States (hereinafter: the Employment Guidelines), as set out in the Annex, are hereby approved. The Employment Guidelines form part of the Integrated Guidelines but are not legally binding, in order to fully respect the local specificities of each Member State. |
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| The Member States shall take the Employment Guidelines into account in their employment policies and reform programmes, which shall be reported in accordance with Article 148(3) TFEU. | The Member States shall take the Employment Guidelines into account in their employment policies and reform programmes, with a view to promoting full and quality employment, strengthening workers’ rights and collective bargaining, reducing inequalities and poverty, and ensuring adequate social protection and upward social convergence, which shall be reported in accordance with Article 148(3) TFEU. |
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| Guideline 5: Boosting the demand for labour | Guideline 5: Boosting quality job creation |
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| Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. | Member States should promote a sustainable and highly competitive social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing needs concerning security, defence and strategic autonomy, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. They should ensure investment in public infrastructure and services such as transport, digital, energy, housing, including social and affordable housing, care and education and training facilities particularly for regions with lower employment levels. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented such as young people, women, people with disabilities and Roma. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. | Member States should actively promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. If well anticipated and substantially funded, the transition towards sustainable, renewable and circular economies generates potential to create a significant number of new jobs and to transform existing employment into green and sustainable jobs in many sectors. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, while fully respecting workers’ rights and labour standards, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should actively promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities and generate social welfare, particularly including territories most affected by the digital, green and demographic transitions and people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. |
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| Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. | Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories, including rural, remote and less-developed regions facing persistent gaps in employment opportunities, infrastructure and access to services relative to urban centres. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. |
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| Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. | Member States should promote a sustainable and competitive, work-based social market economy. They should facilitate and support investments with domestic and European added value, and promote innovation-driven growth and productivity growth to foster quality job creation and a competitive education infrastructure, in particular through demographic measures supporting the European workforce, as well as in the context of growing security and defence needs, and in light of the EU and national headline targets for 2030 . Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. |
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| Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. | Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should promote stable employment and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. |
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| Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions as well as growing security and defence needs, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing administrative burden, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. | Member States should promote a sustainable social market economy. They should facilitate and support investment and foster innovation-led growth and productivity growth for quality job creation, notably in the context of the digital, green and demographic transitions, and in light of the Union and national employment headline targets for 2030. Member States should pursue integrated approaches reflecting the specific challenges and development potential of the different regions and territories. To these ends, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, including by reducing unnecessary administrative burden, without lowering labour, social or environmental standards, and in scaling up, and foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self-employment. Member States should promote the development of the social economy, including social enterprises. They should develop and implement related measures and strategies, foster social innovation and encourage business models that create quality job opportunities, particularly including for people that are furthest from the labour market or underrepresented. |
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| Member States should assess employment policies not only on the basis of employment rates and the number of jobs created, but also on their capacity to create and sustain quality employment. Such assessment should draw on indicators covering security of employment, adequate remuneration, collective bargaining coverage, working-time arrangements, occupational safety and health, access to training and career progression, work-life balance and the incidence of in-work poverty. |
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| To strengthen resilience in the face of possible shocks, well-designed short-time work schemes and similar arrangements can, together with targeted training, help workers to remain employed during temporary downturns and companies’ restructuring while facilitating the dynamic reallocation of labour in the economy. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives and upskilling and reskilling measures, developed in close cooperation with social partners, can also support structural transformations by facilitating restructuring processes and the reallocation of labour from declining sectors towards emerging ones. They can therefore help to modernise the economy, including via associated skills development. | To strengthen resilience in the face of possible economic, labour-market and climate-related shocks, well-designed short-time work schemes and similar arrangements can, together with targeted training, help workers to remain employed during temporary downturns. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives and upskilling and reskilling measures, developed in close cooperation with social partners, can also support structural transformations by facilitating restructuring processes and the reallocation of labour from declining sectors towards emerging ones. They can therefore help to modernise the economy, including via associated skills development. Public and Union support, including State aid, should be conditional on credible employment and skills plans, respect for workers' rights and the creation or retention of quality jobs. Employment-protection instruments modelled on SURE and Just Transition funding should be reinforced, and action plans should strengthen collective bargaining where coverage is below 80%.Preventive assistance should finance transferable upskilling and reskilling and job-to-job transitions. Eligibility should be conditional on full compliance with information, consultation and standstill obligations and on the early involvement of workers, their representatives and social partners. |
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| To strengthen resilience in the face of possible shocks, well-designed short-time work schemes and similar arrangements can, together with targeted training, help workers to remain employed during temporary downturns and companies’ restructuring while facilitating the dynamic reallocation of labour in the economy. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives and upskilling and reskilling measures, developed in close cooperation with social partners, can also support structural transformations by facilitating restructuring processes and the reallocation of labour from declining sectors towards emerging ones. They can therefore help to modernise the economy, including via associated skills development. | To strengthen resilience in the face of possible shocks, well-designed short-time work schemes and similar arrangements can, together with targeted training, help workers to remain employed during temporary downturns and companies’ restructuring. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives and upskilling and reskilling measures, developed in close cooperation with social partners, can also support structural transformations while safeguarding employment, wages, working conditions and acquired rights and ensuring the meaningful involvement of workers and their representatives throughout restructuring processes. Such processes should prevent dismissals wherever possible and ensure that transitions from declining sectors towards emerging ones are socially just and supported by adequate income protection and quality training. They can therefore help to modernise the economy, including via associated skills development. |
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| To strengthen resilience in the face of possible shocks, well-designed short-time work schemes and similar arrangements can, together with targeted training, help workers to remain employed during temporary downturns and companies’ restructuring while facilitating the dynamic reallocation of labour in the economy. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives and upskilling and reskilling measures, developed in close cooperation with social partners, can also support structural transformations by facilitating restructuring processes and the reallocation of labour from declining sectors towards emerging ones. They can therefore help to modernise the economy, including via associated skills development. | To strengthen resilience in the face of possible shocks, well-designed short-time work schemes and similar arrangements can, together with targeted training, help workers to remain employed during temporary downturns and companies’ restructuring while facilitating the dynamic reallocation of labour in the economy, in particular to facilitate the employment of young people starting their careers, as well as the training of workers over 50. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives and upskilling and reskilling measures and tax policy instruments , developed in close cooperation with social partners, can also support structural transformations by facilitating restructuring processes and the reallocation of labour from declining sectors towards emerging ones. They can therefore help to modernise the economy, including via associated skills development. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| To strengthen resilience in the face of possible shocks, well-designed short-time work schemes and similar arrangements can, together with targeted training, help workers to remain employed during temporary downturns and companies’ restructuring while facilitating the dynamic reallocation of labour in the economy. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives and upskilling and reskilling measures, developed in close cooperation with social partners, can also support structural transformations by facilitating restructuring processes and the reallocation of labour from declining sectors towards emerging ones. They can therefore help to modernise the economy, including via associated skills development. | To strengthen resilience in the face of possible shocks, well-designed short-time work schemes, such as the SURE programme, and similar arrangements can, together with targeted training, help workers to remain employed during temporary downturns and companies’ restructuring while facilitating the dynamic reallocation of labour in the economy. Well-designed hiring and transition incentives, lifelong learning, VET, and upskilling and reskilling measures, developed in close cooperation with social partners, can also support quality job creation, the green and digital transitions and other structural transformations by facilitating restructuring processes and the reallocation of labour from declining sectors towards emerging ones. They can therefore help to preserve employment and to modernise the economy, including via associated skills development. |
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| Taxation should be shifted away from labour towards other sources more supportive of growth as well as climate and environmental objectives, while encouraging women’s labour market participation, and protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth-enhancing expenditure. A highly competitive and innovative economy, adequate earnings and fair wages and good working conditions should be pursued as key elements for ensuring job quality, which, together with skills development, career progression and job security, create a virtuous cycle of personal empowerment, productivity and economic growth. Member States should promote collective bargaining on wage setting. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have adequate wages by benefitting from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, quality job creation, purchasing power and in-work poverty. | Tax reforms and any shift away from labour taxation should be progressive and redistributive, should not transfer the burden to low-and middle-income households, should reduce wealth inequalities, support the Union’s environmental objectives and the just transition, and secure adequately funded redistributive transfers, quality public services and social protection. Member States should strengthen action against tax avoidance, tax evasion, tax fraud and money laundering. Primary contractors and subcontractors, including their subsidiaries, that engage in unfair competition, for instance by committing tax fraud, participating in criminal activity or not respecting workers’ and trade union rights and the right to collective bargaining, should be excluded from public contracts. Joint taxation schemes, that may discourage secondary earners from participating actively in the labour market should be reformed in order to ensure that national tax policies support gender equality and women’s broader participation in the labour market. A highly competitive and innovative economy, adequate earnings and fair wages and good working conditions should be pursued as key elements for ensuring job quality, which, together with skills development, career progression and job security, create a virtuous cycle of personal empowerment, productivity and sustainable economic growth. Member States should promote collective bargaining on wage setting. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have adequate wages by benefitting from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, quality job creation, purchasing power and in-work poverty. |
Part on contractors and subcontractors is verbatim quote from the EMPL opinion on public procurement EMPL-AD-770193. Joint taxation schemes based on joint EMPL–FEMM report on gender pay and pension gaps A-10-2026-0021. First part on progression and redistribution etc. largely, though not completely, based on previous EMPL positions.
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković
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| Taxation should be shifted away from labour towards other sources more supportive of growth as well as climate and environmental objectives, while encouraging women’s labour market participation, and protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth-enhancing expenditure. A highly competitive and innovative economy, adequate earnings and fair wages and good working conditions should be pursued as key elements for ensuring job quality, which, together with skills development, career progression and job security, create a virtuous cycle of personal empowerment, productivity and economic growth. Member States should promote collective bargaining on wage setting. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have adequate wages by benefitting from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, quality job creation, purchasing power and in-work poverty. | National taxation should be supportive of job creation while ensuring that tax systems are progressive, and in line with climate and environmental objectives, while encouraging women’s labour market participation, and protecting revenue for public investment, in particular quality public services, social protection and sustainable growth-enhancing expenditure. A highly competitive and innovative economy, adequate earnings and fair wages and good working conditions should be pursued as key elements for ensuring job quality, which, together with skills development, career progression and job security, create a virtuous cycle of personal empowerment, productivity and economic growth. Member States should promote collective bargaining on wage setting and ensure an effective involvement of social partners in a transparent and predictable manner, allowing for adequate responsiveness of wages to productivity developments, inflation and the cost of living, and fostering fair wages that enable a decent standard of living, paying particular attention to lower and middle income groups with a view to strengthening upward socio-economic convergence. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have adequate wages by benefitting from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, quality job creation, purchasing power and in-work poverty. |
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| Taxation should be shifted away from labour towards other sources more supportive of growth as well as climate and environmental objectives, while encouraging women’s labour market participation, and protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth-enhancing expenditure. A highly competitive and innovative economy, adequate earnings and fair wages and good working conditions should be pursued as key elements for ensuring job quality, which, together with skills development, career progression and job security, create a virtuous cycle of personal empowerment, productivity and economic growth. Member States should promote collective bargaining on wage setting. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have adequate wages by benefitting from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, quality job creation, purchasing power and in-work poverty. | Taxation should be shifted away from labour towards other sources more supportive of growth as well as climate and environmental objectives, while encouraging women’s labour market participation, and protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth-enhancing expenditure. A highly competitive and innovative economy, adequate earnings and fair wages and good working conditions should be pursued as key elements for ensuring job quality, which, together with skills development, career progression and job security, create a virtuous cycle of personal empowerment, productivity and economic growth. Member States should invest in the care economy, including childcare, long-term care and disability support services, recognising its role both in enabling women's labour market participation and in creating quality jobs, and should address the undervaluation and poor working conditions that characterise many female-dominated care and service sectors. Member States should promote collective bargaining on wage setting. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have adequate wages by benefitting from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, quality job creation, purchasing power, real wage growth relative to the cost of living, and in-work poverty. |
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| Taxation should be shifted away from labour towards other sources more supportive of growth as well as climate and environmental objectives, while encouraging women’s labour market participation, and protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth-enhancing expenditure. A highly competitive and innovative economy, adequate earnings and fair wages and good working conditions should be pursued as key elements for ensuring job quality, which, together with skills development, career progression and job security, create a virtuous cycle of personal empowerment, productivity and economic growth. Member States should promote collective bargaining on wage setting. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have adequate wages by benefitting from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, taking into account their impact on competitiveness, quality job creation, purchasing power and in-work poverty. | Taxation should be shifted away from labour towards other sources more supportive of growth as well as climate and environmental objectives, while encouraging women’s labour market participation, and protecting revenue for adequate social protection and growth-enhancing expenditure. A highly competitive and innovative economy, adequate earnings and fair wages and good working conditions should be pursued as key elements for ensuring job quality, which, together with skills development, career progression and job security, create a virtuous cycle of personal empowerment, productivity and economic growth. Member States should actively promote and strengthen collective bargaining on wage setting, in particular sectoral and cross-sectoral collective bargaining, and promote higher collective bargaining coverage. Respecting national practices and the autonomy of social partners, Member States and social partners should ensure that all workers have fair and adequate wages that provide for a decent standard of living by benefitting from collective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages. Wage developments should strengthen purchasing power, prevent in-work poverty, promote upward wage convergence and ensure that workers receive a fair share of productivity gains. |
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| To prevent the offshoring of companies that have received Union financial support, existing State-aid rules and Union funding programmes should be reviewed and strategic solutions established to maintain and develop the Union's industrial base. This should strengthen European strategic autonomy and a robust European industrial policy. The transition should be accompanied by social and employment measures ensuring a just transition in which no worker or community is left behind. Member States should make public procurement, concessions, State aid and Union funding subject to a binding horizontal social clause throughout contracting and subcontracting chains. Contracting authorities should give adequate weight to quality employment and coverage by genuine applicable collective agreements; awards should not be based on lowest price alone where this depresses wages or working conditions or facilitates social dumping. Operators responsible for serious breaches of labour law, trade-union rights, collective-bargaining rights or tax law, or relying on bogus collective agreements or employer-dominated organisations, should be excluded from public support and procurement. |
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| Member States should ensure that productivity gains arising from digitalisation, automation and the deployment of artificial intelligence are shared fairly and contribute to social progress and upward social convergence by supporting quality employment, workers’ rights, lifelong learning, social protection and high-quality public services. Where technological change reduces labour demand or displaces workers, Member States should, in close cooperation with the social partners, adopt anticipatory measures to preserve employment where possible, ensure adequate income protection, support access to reskilling and upskilling and facilitate transitions to new quality employment. |
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| In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. | In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should anticipate and mitigate the labour market effects of AI-driven automation on task content and job displacement across sectors, including through sectoral social dialogue on the introduction of AI systems, and dedicated transition support and retraining for workers in occupations at high risk of displacement. Member states should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. |
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| In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. | In the context of the digital and competitiveness transitions, demographic crisis, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, cheaper education accessible to as many Europeans as possible, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States in cooperation with businesses enjoying local tax incentives, should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, appropriate solutions and not merely those targeted at replacing existing human labour, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. |
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| In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. | In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with current and future labour market needs, particularly in strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, such as VET centres aligned with regional sectors, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech and clean industry development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems and in particular support SMEs to recruit, train and retain qualified workers. |
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| In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. | In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, growing inequalities and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote sustainability, inclusiveness, competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development, including the development and acquisition of skills and competences throughout people's lives. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. | In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote sustainability, competitiveness, productivity, employability, inclusiveness and the development and acquisition of skills and competences, responding to labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy in particular those contributing to the green and digital transitions. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. |
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| In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the growing importance of security and defence, together with the related need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. | In the context of the digital and green transitions, demographic change, and geopolitical shifts, and the need for greater strategic autonomy of the Union, including with regards to technological sovereignty, Member States should promote competitiveness, productivity, employability and human capital development. To this end, they should foster the acquisition of skills and competences in line with labour market needs, focusing on strategic sectors and value chains identified in Union and national industrial policy. They should address skills and labour shortages, including through better and timelier skills intelligence, also in light of the Union and national skills headline targets for 2030. Member States should also modernise and invest in their education and training systems, also in rural and remote areas, and including related infrastructure, to provide high quality, accessible and inclusive education and training, and stimulate increased upskilling and reskilling. This should also ensure that the workforce has the right skills to develop and deploy solutions in view of the fast-changing deep tech development. Member States should work together with social partners, education and training providers, enterprises and other stakeholders to address structural weaknesses in their education and training systems. |
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| Decent working conditions - including fair wages, standard employment contracts, social protection, lifelong learning, occupational safety and health, work-life balance, reasonable working time, workers' representation, democracy at work and collective bargaining - are crucial to attracting and retaining skilled workers. |
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| Particular attention should be paid to addressing the decline in the educational performance of young people, especially in basic skills (literacy, mathematics, science, digital and citizenship skills), including with targeted support for disadvantaged groups. Action is needed to address the challenges faced by the teaching profession, including its attractiveness and working conditions, tackling teacher shortages, and investing in teachers’ and trainers’ digital skills and competences. To lay the foundations for adaptability and resilience throughout life, education and training systems should equip all learners with key competences, such as basic and digital skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, as well as transversal competences, entrepreneurship skills and critical thinking in light of the threat of disinformation. | Particular attention should be paid to addressing the decline in the educational performance of young people, especially in basic skills (literacy, mathematics, science, digital and citizenship skills), including with targeted support for disadvantaged groups. Action is needed to address the challenges faced by the teaching profession, including its attractiveness and working conditions, tackling teacher shortages, and investing in teachers’ and trainers’ digital skills and competences. To lay the foundations for adaptability and resilience throughout life, education and training systems should equip all learners with key competences, such as basic and digital skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, as well as transversal competences, entrepreneurship skills and critical thinking in light of the threat of disinformation. They should also ensure that learners are well informed about the full range of education and career pathways, including by raising awareness from an early stage of vocational education and training (VET) as an attractive and high-quality pathway towards occupations essential to the functioning of their societies and economies. |
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| Particular attention should be paid to addressing the decline in the educational performance of young people, especially in basic skills (literacy, mathematics, science, digital and citizenship skills), including with targeted support for disadvantaged groups. Action is needed to address the challenges faced by the teaching profession, including its attractiveness and working conditions, tackling teacher shortages, and investing in teachers’ and trainers’ digital skills and competences. To lay the foundations for adaptability and resilience throughout life, education and training systems should equip all learners with key competences, such as basic and digital skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, as well as transversal competences, entrepreneurship skills and critical thinking in light of the threat of disinformation. | Particular attention should be paid to addressing the decline in the educational performance of young people, especially in basic skills (literacy, mathematics, science, digital and citizenship skills), including with targeted support for disadvantaged groups as well as by enforcing uniform and fair requirements, inter alia to acquire European culture and high-level language skills . Action is needed to address the challenges faced by the teaching profession, including its attractiveness and working conditions, tackling teacher shortages, and investing in teachers’ and trainers’ digital skills and competences. To lay the foundations for adaptability and resilience throughout life, education and training systems should equip all learners with key competences, such as basic and digital skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, as well as transversal competences, entrepreneurship skills and critical thinking in light of the threat of disinformation. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Particular attention should be paid to addressing the decline in the educational performance of young people, especially in basic skills (literacy, mathematics, science, digital and citizenship skills), including with targeted support for disadvantaged groups. Action is needed to address the challenges faced by the teaching profession, including its attractiveness and working conditions, tackling teacher shortages, and investing in teachers’ and trainers’ digital skills and competences. To lay the foundations for adaptability and resilience throughout life, education and training systems should equip all learners with key competences, such as basic and digital skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, as well as transversal competences, entrepreneurship skills and critical thinking in light of the threat of disinformation. | Particular attention should be paid to addressing any decline in the educational performance of young people, especially in basic skills (literacy, mathematics, science, digital and citizenship skills), including with targeted support for disadvantaged groups. Action is needed to address the challenges faced by the teaching profession, including its attractiveness and working conditions, tackling teacher shortages, and investing in teachers’ and trainers’ digital skills and competences. To lay the foundations for adaptability and resilience throughout life, education and training systems should equip all learners with key competences, such as basic and digital skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, as well as transversal competences, entrepreneurship skills and critical thinking in light of the threat of disinformation. |
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| To enhance employability and quality job creation and transitions, Member States should support working-age adults in accessing training and increase incentives and motivation to seek training, including, where appropriate, through individual learning accounts, reliable training quality assessments and micro-credentials. They should enable everyone to anticipate and better adapt to labour market needs, in particular through continuous upskilling and reskilling and the provision of integrated career guidance and counselling. | To enhance employability and quality job creation and transitions, Member States should support working-age adults in accessing training and increase incentives and motivation to seek training, including, where appropriate, through individual learning accounts, reliable training quality assessments and micro-credentials. They should enable everyone to anticipate and better adapt to labour market needs, in particular through continuous upskilling and reskilling and the provision of integrated career guidance and counselling. Member States should guarantee every worker an individual and enforceable right to high-quality paid training during working time, without loss of pay and free of cost to the worker. The right should be portable across employment and job-to-job transitions and should be supported by a European Skills Guarantee and sectoral plans developed with workers' organisations and trade unions. |
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| To enhance employability and quality job creation and transitions, Member States should support working-age adults in accessing training and increase incentives and motivation to seek training, including, where appropriate, through individual learning accounts, reliable training quality assessments and micro-credentials. They should enable everyone to anticipate and better adapt to labour market needs, in particular through continuous upskilling and reskilling and the provision of integrated career guidance and counselling. | To enhance employability and quality job creation and transitions, Member States should ensure an effective individual right to accessible, high-quality and free lifelong learning, vocational education and training, including the right for workers to undertake training during paid working time and without loss of wages, with particular attention to low-paid workers, workers in precarious employment and workers affected by the green and digital transitions . They should enable everyone to anticipate and better adapt to labour market needs, in particular through continuous upskilling and reskilling and the provision of integrated career guidance and counselling. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| To enhance employability and quality job creation and transitions, Member States should support working-age adults in accessing training and increase incentives and motivation to seek training, including, where appropriate, through individual learning accounts, reliable training quality assessments and micro-credentials. They should enable everyone to anticipate and better adapt to labour market needs, in particular through continuous upskilling and reskilling and the provision of integrated career guidance and counselling. | To enhance employability and quality job creation and transitions, Member States should support working-age adults in accessing training, raise awareness also among employers of the importance of a lifelong-learning-friendly work environment and increase incentives and motivation to seek training, including, where appropriate, through individual learning accounts, reliable training quality assessments and micro-credentials. They should enable everyone to anticipate and better adapt to labour market needs, in particular through continuous upskilling and reskilling and the provision of integrated career guidance and counselling. |
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| Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible and quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. | Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access, through high quality, universal and free education. Children should be provided with access to free or affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through youth employment programs, paid, accessible and quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Quality traineeships should require a written agreement before the traineeship begins, specifying its duration, remuneration, learning objectives, rights and duties and mentoring arrangements. Trainees should receive fair remuneration, social protection and equal treatment in pay and working conditions, together with non-discrimination and reasonable accommodation. Labour inspectorates and workers' representatives should be able to enforce these rights through effective and dissuasive penalties, redress and compensation, with protection against retaliation. Unpaid traineeships and regular employment relationships disguised as traineeships should be prohibited.Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems, while ensuring sufficient in-person teaching and adequate teacher-student ratios at VET institutions. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible, transferable and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. Member states should also recognise and guarantee all European workers’ individual subjective right to lifelong learning, upskilling and reskilling and ensure that all formal qualifications and credentials offer clear pathways for further studies and progression. |
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| Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible and quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. | Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas particularly Roma children. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), promote VET as an equal and valued pathway alongside academic pathways within their education and training systems, support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible, paid and quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with fewer opportunities to engage in learning. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Member States should support the development and strengthening of regional Centres of Vocational Excellence initiatives, including through cooperation between VET providers, enterprises, social partners, public authorities and other relevant stakeholders, as platforms for excellence, innovation, skills development and technology transfer. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. |
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| Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible and quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. | Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible and quality paid traineeships and apprenticeships, providing adequate remuneration, social protection, mentoring and genuine learning content, and should prevent unpaid traineeships and the replacement of regular or entry-level employment with traineeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. |
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| Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible and quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. | Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Member States should take targeted action to close the gender gap in digital and AI skills and in STEM career pathways, from early education through to reskilling programmes. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible, paid and quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible and quality traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. | Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training, including territorial disparities in access. Children should be provided with access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care, in line with the “Barcelona targets” and the European Child Guarantee. Member States should raise overall qualification levels, reduce the number of early leavers from education and training, support equal access to education for children from disadvantaged groups and remote areas. They should also increase the attractiveness, quality and labour market relevance of vocational education and training (VET), support access to and completion of tertiary education, and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates both in VET and in tertiary education, especially women. Top performance and excellence in educational outcomes should also be supported, given their role in fostering the future innovation potential of the Union and competitiveness. Member States should facilitate the transition from education to employment for young people through accessible, quality, and paid traineeships and apprenticeships, as well as counselling services, and increase participation of adults in learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and the least qualified. Member States should upgrade and increase the supply and uptake of flexible initial and continuing VET, and strengthen work-based learning in VET systems. Workers should have the right to attend professional training programmes during working hours at no cost to them. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour market relevance of tertiary education and, where appropriate, research; improve skills intelligence; make skills and qualifications more visible and comparable, including those acquired abroad, and ensure a more consistent use of EU-wide classifications (i.e. ESCO); increase opportunities for validating and recognising skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training, and promote faster recognition of qualifications for Union and third-country nationals, while maintaining quality standards. |
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| Member States should provide unemployed and inactive people with effective, timely, coordinated and tailor-made assistance based on support for job searches, upskilling and reskilling and access to other enabling services, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups. Comprehensive strategies that include in-depth individual assessments of unemployed people and validation of prior work experience should be pursued as soon as possible, at the latest after 18 months of unemployment, with a view to significantly reducing and preventing long-term unemployment. Youth unemployment and the challenge of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) should continue to be addressed through prevention of early leaving from education and training and improvement of the school-to-work transition, alongside the full implementation of the reinforced Youth Guarantee, notably by making an offer within 4 months for young people aged 15-29, to guarantee early intervention. | Member States should provide unemployed and inactive people with effective, timely, coordinated and tailor-made assistance based on support for job searches, upskilling and reskilling and access to other enabling services, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups. Comprehensive strategies that include in-depth individual assessments of unemployed people and validation of prior work experience should be pursued as soon as possible at the beginning of unemployment and at the latest after 12 months of unemployment, with a view to significantly reducing and preventing long-term unemployment. Youth unemployment and the challenge of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) should continue to be addressed through prevention of early leaving from education and training and improvement of the school-to-work transition, alongside the full implementation of the reinforced Youth Guarantee, notably by making an offer within 4 months for young people aged 15-29, to guarantee early intervention, and by providing support for quality youth-employment opportunities. Offers under the reinforced Youth Guarantee should satisfy binding quality criteria on remuneration, employment security, social protection, training content and sustainable career prospects. Union funding should be conditional on Member State compliance and subject to robust monitoring, enforcement and measurement of long-term outcomes. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should provide unemployed and inactive people with effective, timely, coordinated and tailor-made assistance based on support for job searches, upskilling and reskilling and access to other enabling services, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups. Comprehensive strategies that include in-depth individual assessments of unemployed people and validation of prior work experience should be pursued as soon as possible, at the latest after 18 months of unemployment, with a view to significantly reducing and preventing long-term unemployment. Youth unemployment and the challenge of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) should continue to be addressed through prevention of early leaving from education and training and improvement of the school-to-work transition, alongside the full implementation of the reinforced Youth Guarantee, notably by making an offer within 4 months for young people aged 15-29, to guarantee early intervention. | Member States should provide unemployed and inactive people with effective, timely, coordinated and tailor-made assistance based on support for job searches, upskilling and reskilling and access to other enabling services, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups, and people affected by the green and digital transitions. Comprehensive strategies that include in-depth individual assessments of unemployed people and validation of prior work experience should be pursued as soon as possible, at the latest after 18 months of unemployment, with a view to significantly reducing and preventing long-term unemployment. Youth unemployment and the challenge of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) should continue to be addressed through prevention of early leaving from education and training and improvement of the school-to-work transition, alongside the full implementation of the reinforced Youth Guarantee, notably by making an offer within 4 months for young people aged 15-29, to guarantee early intervention. |
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| Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting adequate working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. | Member States should remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting adequate working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. The social economy can play a key role in securing quality jobs for persons with disabilities. The Disability Employment Package under the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, as enhanced by the Commission Communication of 6 May 2026, should be fully implemented in workplaces, with particular attention to reasonable accommodation, retention strategies and discriminatory practices. |
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| Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting adequate working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. | Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting quality working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment which ensures accessibility and reasonable accomodation for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, maintenance of disability allowances while employed, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. |
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| Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting adequate working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. | Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour market participation and address shortages, notably through improving wages and working conditions and removing structural barriers to quality employment. Tax and benefit systems should guarantee adequate income protection and a dignified standard of living and active labour market policies should be effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. |
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| Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting adequate working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. | Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including legally residing foreign workers and their family members, as well as asylum seekers and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting adequate working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting adequate working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. | Member States should aim to remove barriers and disincentives to, and provide incentives for, labour market participation, in particular for low-income earners, second earners (often women), older people, persons with disabilities, and those furthest from the labour market, including people with a migrant background and Roma. Member States should contribute to fostering labour supply and address shortages, notably through promoting adequate working conditions, ensuring that the design of tax and benefit systems encourages labour market participation, and that active labour market policies are effective and accessible, respecting the role and autonomy of social partners. Member States should also support a work environment adapted for persons with disabilities, offering quality non-segregated employment and career progression, including through targeted financial and technical support, information and awareness raising, and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society. |
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| Member States should ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including in relation to career progression, by tackling gender stereotypes, eliminating barriers to leadership access at all levels of decision making, and by tackling workplace violence and harassment. Equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value, and pay transparency should be ensured. The reconciliation of work, family and private life for both women and men should be promoted, in particular through access to affordable, high quality long-term care and early childhood education and care. Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable family-related leave and flexible working arrangements to balance work, family and private life, and promote a balanced use of those entitlements between parents. | Member States should ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including in relation to career progression, by tackling gender stereotypes, eliminating barriers to leadership access at all levels of decision making, including by effectively implementing Directive (EU) 2022/2381 on gender balance among directors of listed companies, and pursuing equivalent measures in the public sector and SMEs and by tackling workplace violence and harassment in line with ILO Convention 190 on violence and harassment in the world of work. Member States should transpose and rigorously enforce Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, including gender pay gap reporting obligations, to ensure equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value. The reconciliation of work, family and private life for both women and men should be promoted, in particular through access to affordable, high quality long-term care and early childhood education and care. Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable family-related leave and flexible working arrangements to balance work, family and private life, and promote a balanced use of those entitlements between parents. |
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| Member States should ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including in relation to career progression, by tackling gender stereotypes, eliminating barriers to leadership access at all levels of decision making, and by tackling workplace violence and harassment. Equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value, and pay transparency should be ensured. The reconciliation of work, family and private life for both women and men should be promoted, in particular through access to affordable, high quality long-term care and early childhood education and care. Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable family-related leave and flexible working arrangements to balance work, family and private life, and promote a balanced use of those entitlements between parents. | Member States should ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including in relation to career progression, by tackling gender stereotypes as well as gender-segregated labour markets and systematic gender gaps in access to relevant education and training, eliminating barriers to leadership access at all levels of decision making, and by tackling workplace violence and harassment. Equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value, and pay transparency should be ensured. The reconciliation of work, family and private life for both women and men should be promoted, in particular through access to affordable, high quality long-term care and early childhood education and care. Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable and paid family-related leave and flexible working arrangements to balance work, family and private life, and promote a balanced use of those entitlements between parents. Member States should introduce gender-neutral job-evaluation methods developed with social partners and supported by Union guidance and pilot projects to correct the undervaluation of work in female-dominated sectors. |
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| Member States should ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including in relation to career progression, by tackling gender stereotypes, eliminating barriers to leadership access at all levels of decision making, and by tackling workplace violence and harassment. Equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value, and pay transparency should be ensured. The reconciliation of work, family and private life for both women and men should be promoted, in particular through access to affordable, high quality long-term care and early childhood education and care. Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable family-related leave and flexible working arrangements to balance work, family and private life, and promote a balanced use of those entitlements between parents. | Member States should ensure gender equality and increased labour market participation of women, including in relation to career progression, by tackling gender stereotypes, eliminating barriers to leadership access at all levels of decision making, ensuring paid maternity and parental leave and by tackling workplace violence and harassment. Equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value, and pay transparency should be ensured. The reconciliation of work, family and private life for both women and men should be promoted, in particular through access to affordable, high quality long-term care and early childhood education and care. Member States should ensure quality working conditions including continuous training for workers in the care sector to ensure the attraction and retention of qualified staff, often women, in view of demographic change and an increasingly aging population Member States should ensure that parents and other people with caring responsibilities have access to suitable family-related leave and flexible working arrangements to balance work, family and private life, and promote a balanced use of those entitlements between parents. |
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| As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. | As a complement to fully tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment, equal treatment, labour and social rights and protection against exploitation. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. Labour-migration instruments, including the EU Talent Pool, should be governed with equal representation of trade unions and employers. Migrant workers should receive accessible complaint tools, legal redress and trade-union contact information. Recruitment of third-country nationals must not be used to weaken collective action or domestic wages and working conditions. |
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| As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. | As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment, equal treatment, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, full labour and social rights, access to collective bargaining and trade-union representation, and effective protection against exploitation, discrimination and abusive recruitment practices. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. |
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| As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. | As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract academic and vocational talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing their fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. They should also ensure that employers recruiting migrant workers take responsibility for providing adequate and affordable housing. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković
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| As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. | As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. Member States should likewise ensure that labour migration does not result in a deterioration of existing working conditions for domestic workers. |
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| As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union via legal migration pathways, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal migration procedures are simple, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions. Member States should further engage in Talent Partnerships to enhance legal migration pathways by launching new mobility schemes and provide for an effective integration policy for workers and their families, encompassing education and training, employment, social protection, health and housing. | As a complementary solution to tapping the potential of the Union domestic workforce, Member States should attract talent and skills from outside the Union, through the employment of workforce employed as guest workers for a fixed term, while guaranteeing fair recruitment and labour and social rights. Member States should ensure that procedures to recognise qualifications of third-country nationals in the context of legal employment procedures are simple, lawful, transparent, time-limited, efficient and facilitate fast access to regulated professions, in particular through the application of artificial intelligence. |
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| Member States should work together with social partners in ensuring fair, transparent and predictable working conditions. To enhance job quality, they should reduce and prevent segmentation in labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should provide both a suitable environment for recruitment and the necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context. At the same time, they should protect labour rights and ensure social protection. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets. A safe and healthy work environment should be ensured, and workplace wellbeing and job autonomy promoted as contributing to job quality. | Member States should work together with social partners in ensuring fair, transparent and predictable working conditions. To enhance job quality, they should reduce and prevent segmentation in labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, including through cooperation between social security and labour inspection authorities, joint cross-border inspections coordinated with the European Labour Authority, and effective sanctions, with particular attention to sectors and workers at higher risk of labour exploitation, including migrant and seasonal workers, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should provide both a suitable environment for recruitment and the necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context. At the same time, they should protect labour rights and ensure social protection. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets, which should be coupled with working-time arrangements that respect rest periods and private life, including a right to disconnect. A safe and healthy work environment should be ensured, and workplace wellbeing and job autonomy promoted as contributing to job quality. Member States should ensure that occupational safety and health frameworks recognise and effectively address the risks of extreme temperatures, including heatwaves and cold spells, through preventive risk assessments, adapted working time arrangements, appropriate protective equipment and facilities, and clear employer obligations to act when thresholds are exceeded, with particular attention to outdoor workers, physically demanding occupations and other higher-risk sectors. Member states should look to expand social protection coverage for workers who lose work and income due to extreme weather events. |
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| Member States should work together with social partners in ensuring fair, transparent and predictable working conditions. To enhance job quality, they should reduce and prevent segmentation in labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should provide both a suitable environment for recruitment and the necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context. At the same time, they should protect labour rights and ensure social protection. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets. A safe and healthy work environment should be ensured, and workplace wellbeing and job autonomy promoted as contributing to job quality. | Member States should work together with social partners in ensuring fair, transparent and predictable working conditions. To enhance job quality, they should reduce and prevent segmentation in labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should guarantee a high level of protection for workers, employment security, fair and predictable working conditions, adequate social protection and effective protection against arbitrary and unfair dismissal. Changes in the economic context and restructuring processes should be managed through social dialogue and collective bargaining, with the meaningful involvement of workers and their representatives. Where employers contemplate decisions likely to lead to significant restructuring, collective redundancies or substantial changes in work organisation or contractual relations, Member States should ensure that workers and their representatives are informed and consulted at a stage when alternatives can still be genuinely considered and before irreversible decisions are implemented. Consultation should be conducted with a view to reaching agreement on measures to prevent or reduce job losses, preserve quality employment and mitigate the social consequences of restructuring. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets. A safe and healthy work environment should be ensured, and workplace wellbeing and job autonomy promoted as contributing to job quality. |
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| Member States should work together with social partners in ensuring fair, transparent and predictable working conditions. To enhance job quality, they should reduce and prevent segmentation in labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should provide both a suitable environment for recruitment and the necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context. At the same time, they should protect labour rights and ensure social protection. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets. A safe and healthy work environment should be ensured, and workplace wellbeing and job autonomy promoted as contributing to job quality. | Member States should work together with social partners in ensuring fair, transparent and predictable working conditions. To enhance job quality, they should reduce and prevent segmentation in labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Member States should reduce involuntary and unpredictable work through guaranteed-hours arrangements and support secure contracts with predictable schedules. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should protect labour rights, provide high social protection and secure employment, enable inclusive recruitment and ensure safe, healthy and well-adapted work environments for all workers, while providing a suitable environment for companies and employers to adapt to change. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets, including for previously excluded groups, but can also blur the boundary between working time and private life. Union legislation should therefore guarantee an effective right to disconnect. A safe and healthy work environment should be ensured, and workplace wellbeing and job autonomy promoted as contributing to job quality. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should work together with social partners in ensuring fair, transparent and predictable working conditions. To enhance job quality, they should reduce and prevent segmentation in labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should provide both a suitable environment for recruitment and the necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context. At the same time, they should protect labour rights and ensure social protection. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets. A safe and healthy work environment should be ensured, and workplace wellbeing and job autonomy promoted as contributing to job quality. | Member States should work together with social partners in ensuring fair, transparent and predictable working conditions. To enhance job quality, they should reduce and prevent segmentation in labour markets, fight undeclared work and bogus self-employment, and foster the transition towards open-ended forms of employment. Employment protection rules, labour law and institutions should provide both a suitable environment for recruitment and the necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context. At the same time, they should protect labour rights and ensure social protection. Promoting the use of flexible working arrangements such as teleworking can contribute to higher employment levels and more inclusive labour markets. Member States should ensure a safe, healthy and climate-resilient work environment, providing workers with adequate protection at work, including measures such as heat protection, ventilation, cooling, access to water, emergency preparedness and other appropriate occupational health and safety measures, in particular in sectors and regions most exposed to climate change, while promoting workplace wellbeing and job autonomy as contributing to job quality. |
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| Member States should take effective measures to prevent and sanction abuse arising from successive fixed-term contracts, involuntary part-time work, bogus self-employment and other contractual arrangements used to evade labour and social protection rules. Workers in non-standard forms of employment should enjoy equal treatment in employment conditions and social protection in relation to comparable workers, in accordance with Union and national law. Employment relationships that cover permanent and lasting needs should, as a rule, be based on open-ended employment contracts, without prejudice to the use of fixed-term employment where it is objectively justified. |
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| Furthermore, Member States should ensure that occupational safety and health frameworks explicitly recognise and address psychosocial risks, including work-related stress, burnout, and workplace harassment and violence, through regular risk assessment, prevention measures embedded in workplace organisation, and access to support services for affected workers. |
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| Member States should strengthen policies to prevent occupational accidents and work-related diseases, with the objective of progressively reducing and ultimately eliminating fatal occupational accidents. Prevention policies and workplace risk assessments should cover physical and psychosocial risks, including excessive workload, work-related stress, violence and harassment, and should be designed, implemented and reviewed with the effective participation of workers and their representatives. |
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| Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in platform work and atypical work contracts, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. | Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. The Union and Member States must take concrete measures to ensure that increasing AI-driven automation does not lead to a reduction in labour’s share of income, which would not only increase inequalities but could also weaken aggregate demand, investment and economic growth. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Precarious working conditions must be prevented, including in platform work, atypical work contracts and work mediated through intermediaries, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. To this end, Member States should ensure timely and complete transposition of Directive (EU) 2024/2831 by 2 December 2026 and effective enforcement thereafter, so that persons performing platform work fully enjoy their rights and social benefits. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. |
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| Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in platform work and atypical work contracts, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. | Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, and ensure that the introduction and use of AI and algorithmic management systems in the workplace are transparent, subject to meaningful human oversight and to the prior information and consultation of workers and their representatives and, where appropriate, collective bargaining. Such systems should complement rather than replace human labour and should not undermine workers' rights, lead to work intensification or intrusive surveillance, or result in automated decisions concerning recruitment, remuneration, working conditions, disciplinary measures or dismissal without meaningful human oversight. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in platform work and atypical work contracts, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in platform work and atypical work contracts, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. | Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. It is important to ensure that the workers’ rights in terms of working time, working conditions, mental health at work and work-life balance are respected and equally applied for all workers, regardless the sector, the size of the company or the underlying employment contract. Precarious working conditions must be prevented, including in platform work, or through bogus and other forms of disguised employment and atypical work contracts. It is essential to ensure fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and human accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. |
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| Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in platform work and atypical work contracts, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. | Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical human-centric use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Member States should further adapt education and training pathways to the changing impact of AI across occupations and resulting shifts in occupational demand, including by raising the profile and attractiveness of VET professions that are less susceptible to AI-related disruption. Precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in platform work and atypical work contracts, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. |
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| Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in platform work and atypical work contracts, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. | Member States should support workers and employers in the digital transformation, including via promoting the effective, responsible, inclusive and ethical use of AI tools that boost productivity and complement human labour. To foster a trust-based approach to workplace technology and innovation, Member States should also monitor impacts on the labour market functioning, including recruitment practices, and leverage the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. Precarious working conditions should be prevented, including in platform work and atypical work contracts, by ensuring fairness, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability in the use of algorithms, and by fighting abusive contractual arrangements. Member States should ensure that workers in platform work and other atypical or non-standard forms of employment have effective and portable access to social protection. Access to effective, impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, where applicable, should be ensured in cases of unfair dismissal. |
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| Member States should ensure that workers have access to effective, affordable and timely administrative and judicial procedures for the recovery of unpaid wages, overtime pay and other employment-related claims. Procedural costs, time limits and evidentiary requirements should not render the exercise of those rights impossible or excessively difficult. Decisions recognising workers’ claims should be effectively enforced, and workers should be protected against retaliation for bringing or supporting a claim. |
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| Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. Private employment services also play a role in this respect. | Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should pay particular attention to the gendered dimensions of labour market, including the overrepresentation of women in part-time, low-paid and precarious work, and should ensure that active labour market policies and social dialogue structures actively reach and represent women. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. Private employment services also play a role in this respect. |
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| Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. Private employment services also play a role in this respect. | Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, legally residing foreign workers and their family members, or asylum seekers, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. Private employment services also play a role in this respect. |
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| Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. Private employment services also play a role in this respect. | Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. |
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| Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. Private employment services also play a role in this respect. | Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding. Private employment services also play a role in this respect. | Member States should effectively activate and enable those who can participate in the labour market, especially underrepresented groups, such as women and young people, as well as people in vulnerable situations, such as the lower-skilled, the long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, people with a migrant background, people from Roma communities and older workers. Member States should strengthen the scope and effectiveness of active labour market policies by increasing their availability, outreach and coverage and by better linking them with social services, training and income support for the unemployed. Member States should enhance the capacity of public employment services to provide timely and tailor-made assistance to jobseekers, including through performance-based management and better capacity to use data and digital technology, and by making the best use of Union funding as well as national resources. |
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| Member States should provide the unemployed with adequate unemployment benefits of reasonable duration, in line with their contributions and national eligibility rules. Unemployment benefits should not disincentivise a prompt return to employment and should be accompanied by active labour market policies. | Member States should provide unemployed people with accessible and adequate unemployment benefits that ensure income security and a dignified standard of living for as long as necessary, in accordance with national eligibility rules. Unemployment benefits should be accompanied by effective and adequately funded public employment services, quality training and individualised support enabling unemployed people to find sustainable and quality employment corresponding, as far as possible, to their skills and qualifications. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should provide the unemployed with adequate unemployment benefits of reasonable duration, in line with their contributions and national eligibility rules. Unemployment benefits should not disincentivise a prompt return to employment and should be accompanied by active labour market policies. | Member States should provide the unemployed with adequate unemployment benefits of sufficient duration, in line with their contributions and national eligibility rules and based on the principle of non-discrimination. Unemployment benefits should not disincentivise a prompt return to employment and should be accompanied by active labour market policies. |
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| Member States should provide the unemployed with adequate unemployment benefits of reasonable duration, in line with their contributions and national eligibility rules. Unemployment benefits should not disincentivise a prompt return to employment and should be accompanied by active labour market policies. | Member States should provide the unemployed with adequate unemployment benefits of sufficient duration, in line with their contributions and national eligibility rules and on the basis of non-discrimination. Unemployment benefits should be accompanied by active labour market policies. |
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| The Union and Member states, in close cooperation with social partners, should consider establishing a general EU legal framework ensuring joint and several liability throughout subcontracting chains. They should address practices whereby the main contractor subcontracts all work without performing any work itself; main contractors should perform a defined part of a contract themselves, and public-procurement rules should encourage companies to have sufficient in-house staff to implement the projects awarded to them. Direct employment relationships should be encouraged in high-risk sectors where feasible, justified, proportionate and based on overriding reasons of public interest, such as the protection of workers and their rights. A minimum EU framework should govern labour intermediaries in order to strengthen their accountability, transparency obligations and compliance with minimum requirements and quality standards. Any licensing or registration should be subject to minimum integrity criteria, and labour intermediaries operating in the Union should not charge fees or pass any costs on to workers, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should also strive to create the appropriate conditions for new forms of work, and working methods, delivering on their job creation potential while ensuring that they are compliant with social and labour rights. They should enforce applicable rules in the context of atypical contracts and new forms of work, such as work through digital labour platforms. In this regard, social partners can play an instrumental role and Member States should support them in reaching out to and representing people in atypical and new forms of work. Member States should also strengthen enforcement through adequate capacities and dedicated training for labour inspectorates, concerning the challenges stemming from new forms of work, including the use of digital technologies and AI, such as algorithmic management, workers’ surveillance and telework. | Member States should also strive to create the appropriate conditions for new forms of work, and working methods, delivering on their job creation potential while ensuring compliance with Union and national social and labour rights. They should enforce applicable rules in the context of atypical contracts and new forms of work, such as work through digital labour platforms. In this regard, social partners can play an instrumental role and Member States should support them in reaching out to and representing people in atypical and new forms of work. Member States should also strengthen enforcement, for example through adequate capacities and dedicated training for labour inspectorates, concerning the challenges stemming from new forms of work, including the use of digital technologies and AI, such as algorithmic management, workers’ surveillance and telework. Effective enforcement of workers' rights and labour law are key in the context of digitalisation, and in the use of AI and algorithmic management at the workplace. |
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| Member States should also strive to create the appropriate conditions for new forms of work, and working methods, delivering on their job creation potential while ensuring that they are compliant with social and labour rights. They should enforce applicable rules in the context of atypical contracts and new forms of work, such as work through digital labour platforms. In this regard, social partners can play an instrumental role and Member States should support them in reaching out to and representing people in atypical and new forms of work. Member States should also strengthen enforcement through adequate capacities and dedicated training for labour inspectorates, concerning the challenges stemming from new forms of work, including the use of digital technologies and AI, such as algorithmic management, workers’ surveillance and telework. | Member States should also strive to create the appropriate conditions for new forms of work, and working methods, delivering on their job creation potential while ensuring that they are fully compliant with social and labour rights. They should enforce applicable rules in the context of atypical contracts and new forms of work, such as work through digital labour platforms. In this regard, social partners can play an instrumental role and Member States should support them in reaching out to and representing people in atypical and new forms of work. Member States should also strengthen enforcement through adequate capacities and dedicated training for labour inspectorates, concerning the challenges stemming from new forms of work, including the use of digital technologies and AI, such as algorithmic management, workers’ surveillance and telework on working conditions and OSH particularly occupation psychosocial health and safety. |
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| Member States should strengthen the effective enforcement of labour law by ensuring that labour inspectorates are adequately staffed, sufficiently resourced and operationally equipped to carry out regular, targeted and, where appropriate, unannounced inspections, particularly in sectors with a high incidence of undeclared work, labour exploitation or serious occupational risks. They should ensure that detected infringements are promptly investigated and subject to effective follow-up, including effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions, and that workers have access to safe, accessible and confidential complaint mechanisms and are protected against retaliation for reporting breaches of labour law or cooperating with the competent authorities. |
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| Member States should regularly assess the effectiveness of labour-law enforcement and make publicly available, in an accessible form, data on labour inspections, detected infringements, follow-up measures, sanctions and the recovery of workers’ claims, broken down, where possible, by sector and form of employment. Such assessments should be used to identify enforcement gaps, improve compliance and allocate adequate resources, while ensuring the protection of personal data and the confidentiality of complainants. |
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| Member States should ensure an enabling environment for bipartite and tripartite social dialogue at all levels, including collective bargaining, in the public and private sectors, in accordance with national law and/or practice, after consultation and in close cooperation with social partners, while respecting their autonomy. Member States should involve social partners in a systematic, meaningful and timely manner in the design and implementation of employment, social and, where relevant, economic and other public policies, including in the setting and updating of statutory minimum wages. Member States should promote higher collective bargaining coverage, including by strengthening social partners’ capacity, enable effective collective bargaining at all appropriate levels and encourage coordination between and across those levels. Social partners should be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, fully respecting their autonomy and the right to collective action. Where relevant, and building on existing national practices, Member States should take into account the relevant experience of civil society organisations on employment and social issues. | Member States should ensure an enabling environment for bipartite and tripartite social dialogue at all levels, including collective bargaining, in the public and private sectors, in accordance with national law and/or practice, after consultation and in close cooperation with social partners, while respecting their autonomy. Member States should involve social partners in a systematic, meaningful and timely manner in the design and implementation of employment, social and, where relevant, economic and other public policies, including in the setting and updating of statutory minimum wages. Member States should promote higher collective bargaining coverage, with the aim of achieving a collective bargaining coverage rate of 80%, in line with the objective set out in Directive (EU) 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages, including by strengthening social partners’ capacity, enable effective collective bargaining at all appropriate levels and encourage coordination between and across those levels. Social partners should be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, fully respecting their autonomy and the right to collective action. Where relevant, and building on existing national practices, Member States should take into account the relevant experience of civil society organisations on employment and social issues. |
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| Member States should ensure an enabling environment for bipartite and tripartite social dialogue at all levels, including collective bargaining, in the public and private sectors, in accordance with national law and/or practice, after consultation and in close cooperation with social partners, while respecting their autonomy. Member States should involve social partners in a systematic, meaningful and timely manner in the design and implementation of employment, social and, where relevant, economic and other public policies, including in the setting and updating of statutory minimum wages. Member States should promote higher collective bargaining coverage, including by strengthening social partners’ capacity, enable effective collective bargaining at all appropriate levels and encourage coordination between and across those levels. Social partners should be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, fully respecting their autonomy and the right to collective action. Where relevant, and building on existing national practices, Member States should take into account the relevant experience of civil society organisations on employment and social issues. | Member States should ensure an enabling environment for bipartite and tripartite social dialogue at all levels, including collective bargaining, in the public and private sectors, in accordance with national law and/or practice, after consultation and in close cooperation with social partners, while respecting their autonomy. Member States should involve social partners in a systematic, meaningful and timely manner in the design and implementation of employment, social and, where relevant, economic and other public policies, including in the setting and updating of statutory minimum wages. Member States should promote higher collective bargaining coverage, including by strengthening social partners’ capacity, enable effective collective bargaining at all appropriate levels and encourage coordination between and across those levels. Social partners should be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, fully respecting their autonomy and the right to collective action. Where relevant, and building on existing national practices, Member States should take into account the relevant experience of civil society organisations on employment and social issues, given their first-hand knowledge of how services and systems operate in practise on the ground. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should ensure an enabling environment for bipartite and tripartite social dialogue at all levels, including collective bargaining, in the public and private sectors, in accordance with national law and/or practice, after consultation and in close cooperation with social partners, while respecting their autonomy. Member States should involve social partners in a systematic, meaningful and timely manner in the design and implementation of employment, social and, where relevant, economic and other public policies, including in the setting and updating of statutory minimum wages. Member States should promote higher collective bargaining coverage, including by strengthening social partners’ capacity, enable effective collective bargaining at all appropriate levels and encourage coordination between and across those levels. Social partners should be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, fully respecting their autonomy and the right to collective action. Where relevant, and building on existing national practices, Member States should take into account the relevant experience of civil society organisations on employment and social issues. | Member States should foster democracy at work and ensure an enabling environment for bipartite and tripartite social dialogue at all levels, including collective bargaining, in the public and private sectors, in accordance with national law and/or practice, after consultation and in close cooperation with social partners, while respecting their autonomy. Member States should involve social partners in a systematic, meaningful and timely manner in the design and implementation of employment, social and, where relevant, economic and other public policies, including in the setting and updating of statutory minimum wages. Member States should promote higher collective bargaining coverage, including by strengthening social partners’ capacity, enable effective collective bargaining at all appropriate levels and encourage coordination between and across those levels. Social partners should be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, fully respecting their autonomy and the right to collective action. Where relevant, and building on existing national practices, Member States should take into account the relevant experience of civil society organisations on employment and social issues. |
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| Before adopting major labour-market reforms, Member States should assess their likely effects on employment levels and job quality, working conditions, collective bargaining, occupational safety and health, equality and the risk of in-work poverty. Social partners, with particular regard to trade unions and workers’ representatives, should be meaningfully involved in such assessments. Following implementation, the actual effects of the reforms should be reviewed and corrective measures should be taken where adverse consequences for workers are identified. |
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| Member States should modernise their social protection systems to provide adequate, effective, efficient and sustainable social protection for all, throughout all stages of life, fit to the needs of an ageing population. They should foster social inclusion and upward social mobility, support intergenerational fairness and a fair balancing of support across age groups, incentivise labour market participation, fight poverty and social exclusion and address inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems, assessing the distributional impact of policies, while tackling discrimination in all its forms. Complementing universal approaches with targeted ones can improve the effectiveness of social protection systems. Member States should enhance the transparency and uptake of social protection benefits, including through the ethical and safe deployment of digital tools, and paying due attention to the digital divide. Particular attention should be paid to vulnerable households that are most affected by the green and digital transitions, and by uneven impacts of climate change and increases in the cost of living, including housing and energy costs. Member States should take steps to close gaps in access to social protection for workers and the self-employed, as an integral component of ensuring job quality. | Member States should modernise their social protection systems to provide adequate, effective, efficient and sustainable social protection for all, throughout all stages of life, fit to the needs of an ageing population. They should foster social inclusion and upward social mobility, support intergenerational fairness and a fair balancing of support across age groups, incentivise labour market participation, fight poverty and social exclusion and address inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems, assessing the distributional impact of policies, while tackling discrimination in all its forms. Complementing universal approaches with targeted ones can improve the effectiveness of social protection systems. Member States should enhance the transparency and uptake of social protection benefits, including through the ethical and safe deployment of digital tools, and paying due attention to the digital divide. Particular attention should be paid to vulnerable households and workers that are most affected by the green and digital transitions, and by uneven impacts of climate change and increases in the cost of living, including housing and energy costs. Member States should take steps to close gaps in access to social protection for workers, including workers in platform and other atypical or non-standard forms of work, and the self-employed, as an integral component of ensuring job quality. |
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| Member States should modernise their social protection systems to provide adequate, effective, efficient and sustainable social protection for all, throughout all stages of life, fit to the needs of an ageing population. They should foster social inclusion and upward social mobility, support intergenerational fairness and a fair balancing of support across age groups, incentivise labour market participation, fight poverty and social exclusion and address inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems, assessing the distributional impact of policies, while tackling discrimination in all its forms. Complementing universal approaches with targeted ones can improve the effectiveness of social protection systems. Member States should enhance the transparency and uptake of social protection benefits, including through the ethical and safe deployment of digital tools, and paying due attention to the digital divide. Particular attention should be paid to vulnerable households that are most affected by the green and digital transitions, and by uneven impacts of climate change and increases in the cost of living, including housing and energy costs. Member States should take steps to close gaps in access to social protection for workers and the self-employed, as an integral component of ensuring job quality. | Member States should modernise their social protection systems to provide adequate, accessible, effective, efficient and sustainable social protection for all, throughout all stages of life, fit to the needs of an ageing population. They should foster social inclusion and upward social mobility, support intergenerational fairness and a fair balancing of support across age groups, incentivise labour market participation, fight poverty and social exclusion particularly child and in-work poverty and address inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems, assessing the distributional impact of policies, while tackling discrimination in all its forms. Complementing universal approaches with targeted ones can improve the effectiveness of social protection systems. Member States should enhance the transparency and uptake of social protection benefits, including through the ethical and safe deployment of digital tools, and paying due attention to the digital divide. Particular attention should be paid to vulnerable households that are most affected by the green and digital transitions, and by uneven impacts of climate change and increases in the cost of living, including housing, transport and energy costs. Member States should take steps to close gaps in access to social protection for workers and the self-employed, as an integral component of ensuring job quality. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should modernise their social protection systems to provide adequate, effective, efficient and sustainable social protection for all, throughout all stages of life, fit to the needs of an ageing population. They should foster social inclusion and upward social mobility, support intergenerational fairness and a fair balancing of support across age groups, incentivise labour market participation, fight poverty and social exclusion and address inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems, assessing the distributional impact of policies, while tackling discrimination in all its forms. Complementing universal approaches with targeted ones can improve the effectiveness of social protection systems. Member States should enhance the transparency and uptake of social protection benefits, including through the ethical and safe deployment of digital tools, and paying due attention to the digital divide. Particular attention should be paid to vulnerable households that are most affected by the green and digital transitions, and by uneven impacts of climate change and increases in the cost of living, including housing and energy costs. Member States should take steps to close gaps in access to social protection for workers and the self-employed, as an integral component of ensuring job quality. | Member States should modernise their social protection systems to provide adequate, effective, efficient and sustainable social protection for all, throughout all stages of life, fit to the needs of an ageing population. They should foster social inclusion and upward social mobility, support intergenerational fairness and a fair balancing of support across age groups, incentivise labour market participation, fight poverty and social exclusion and address inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems, assessing the distributional impact of policies, while tackling discrimination in all its forms. Complementing universal approaches with targeted ones can improve the effectiveness of social protection systems. Member States should enhance the transparency and uptake of social protection benefits, including through the ethical and safe deployment of digital tools, and paying due attention to the digital divide. Particular support should be provided to vulnerable households that are most affected by the green and digital transitions, and by uneven impacts of climate change and increases in the cost of living, including housing and energy costs. Member States should take steps to close gaps in access to social protection for workers and the self-employed, as an integral component of ensuring job quality. |
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| Member States should promote inclusive labour markets open to all by putting in place effective measures to eliminate every form of discrimination and ensure equal opportunities, particularly for groups underrepresented in the labour market and with due attention to regional and territorial dimensions. They should ensure equal treatment in employment, social protection, healthcare, early childhood education and care, respite care, long-term care, education and access to goods and services, including housing, regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. |
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| Member States should ensure that employment constitutes an effective route out of poverty. They should monitor and reduce in-work poverty, with particular attention to workers in low-paid, part-time, temporary or otherwise precarious employment, through adequate wages, wider collective bargaining coverage, effective enforcement of labour law, access to adequate social protection and tax and benefit systems that support a decent standard of living. |
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| Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, in a life cycle perspective from childhood to old age, in line with the Union and national poverty reduction headline targets for 2030. Member States are encouraged to ensure anti-poverty policy frameworks. With a view to further preventing and addressing poverty, discrimination and stigma, difficulties to afford basic needs, such as food, energy, a home and other basic goods, and the lack of access to quality services, should be tackled. Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion (adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services) to meet individual needs. Social protection and inclusion systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by supporting and encouraging people to participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services of good quality. The availability of affordable, accessible and quality services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities, including by alleviating food and material deprivation. To break the cycle of disadvantage, child poverty and social exclusion should be especially addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, including through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee. | Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty, including in-work poverty, and social exclusion, in a life cycle perspective from childhood to old age, in line with the Union and national poverty reduction headline targets for 2030 with the aim of eradicating poverty by 2035 through time-bound milestones. Member States should have effective anti-poverty policy frameworks and address decreasing social mobility and intergenerational and multi-dimensional challenges. With a view to further preventing and addressing poverty, discrimination and stigma, difficulties to afford basic needs, such as food, energy, a home and other basic goods, and the lack of access to quality services, should be tackled. Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion (adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services) to meet individual needs. Social protection and inclusion systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by supporting and encouraging people to participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services of good quality. The availability of affordable, accessible, universal and quality services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities, including by alleviating food and material deprivation. To break the cycle of disadvantage, child poverty and social exclusion should be especially addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, including through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee. |
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| Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, in a life cycle perspective from childhood to old age, in line with the Union and national poverty reduction headline targets for 2030. Member States are encouraged to ensure anti-poverty policy frameworks. With a view to further preventing and addressing poverty, discrimination and stigma, difficulties to afford basic needs, such as food, energy, a home and other basic goods, and the lack of access to quality services, should be tackled. Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion (adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services) to meet individual needs. Social protection and inclusion systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by supporting and encouraging people to participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services of good quality. The availability of affordable, accessible and quality services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities, including by alleviating food and material deprivation. To break the cycle of disadvantage, child poverty and social exclusion should be especially addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, including through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee. | Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, in a life cycle perspective from childhood to old age, in line with the Union and national poverty reduction headline targets for 2030. Member States are encouraged to ensure anti-poverty policy frameworks. With a view to further preventing and addressing poverty, discrimination and stigma, difficulties to afford basic needs, such as food, energy, a home and other basic goods, and the lack of access to quality services, should be tackled. Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion (adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services) to meet individual needs. Social protection and inclusion systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by supporting and encouraging people to participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services of good quality. The availability of affordable, accessible and quality services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities, including by alleviating food and material deprivation. To break the cycle of disadvantage, child poverty and social exclusion should be especially addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, including through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee, with particular attention to single-parent households, the large majority of which are headed by women, and to the compounded risks faced by women in old age, migrant women and women with disabilities.. |
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| Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, in a life cycle perspective from childhood to old age, in line with the Union and national poverty reduction headline targets for 2030. Member States are encouraged to ensure anti-poverty policy frameworks. With a view to further preventing and addressing poverty, discrimination and stigma, difficulties to afford basic needs, such as food, energy, a home and other basic goods, and the lack of access to quality services, should be tackled. Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion (adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services) to meet individual needs. Social protection and inclusion systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by supporting and encouraging people to participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services of good quality. The availability of affordable, accessible and quality services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities, including by alleviating food and material deprivation. To break the cycle of disadvantage, child poverty and social exclusion should be especially addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, including through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee. | Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, in a life cycle perspective from childhood to old age, in line with the Union and national poverty reduction headline targets for 2030. Member States should ensure anti-poverty policy frameworks in line with the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy. With a view to further preventing and addressing poverty, discrimination and stigma, difficulties to afford basic needs, such as food, energy, a home and other basic goods, and the lack of access to quality services, should be tackled. Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion (adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services) to meet individual needs. Social protection and inclusion systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by supporting and encouraging people to participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services of good quality. The availability of affordable, accessible and quality services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities, including by alleviating food and material deprivation. To break the cycle of disadvantage, child poverty and social exclusion should be especially addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, including through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, in a life cycle perspective from childhood to old age, in line with the Union and national poverty reduction headline targets for 2030. Member States are encouraged to ensure anti-poverty policy frameworks. With a view to further preventing and addressing poverty, discrimination and stigma, difficulties to afford basic needs, such as food, energy, a home and other basic goods, and the lack of access to quality services, should be tackled. Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion (adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services) to meet individual needs. Social protection and inclusion systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by supporting and encouraging people to participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services of good quality. The availability of affordable, accessible and quality services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities, including by alleviating food and material deprivation. To break the cycle of disadvantage, child poverty and social exclusion should be especially addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, including through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee. | Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, in a life cycle perspective from childhood to old age, in line with the Union and national poverty reduction headline targets for 2030. Member States are encouraged to ensure anti-poverty policy frameworks. With a view to further preventing and addressing poverty, discrimination and stigma, difficulties to afford basic needs, such as food, energy, a home and other basic goods, and the lack of access to quality services, should be tackled. Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion (adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services) to meet individual needs. Social protection and inclusion systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by supporting and encouraging people in working age to participate in the labour market and society, including through targeted provision of social services. Member States should ensure that everyone has access to essential services of good quality. The availability of affordable, accessible and quality services, such as early childhood education and care, out-of-school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care, is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities, including by alleviating food and material deprivation. To break the cycle of disadvantage, child poverty and social exclusion should be especially addressed by comprehensive and integrated measures, including through the full implementation of the European Child Guarantee. |
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| Member States should recognise that the lack of affordable, adequate and secure housing can impede access to employment, labour mobility and the retention of workers, particularly in areas facing high housing costs or shortages of essential workers. Employment, housing and social policies should therefore be developed in a coordinated manner to reduce housing-related barriers to work, prevent housing insecurity and strengthen social, economic and territorial cohesion. |
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| Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs. | Member States should recognise access to adequate, affordable and sustainable housing as a universal human right and affordable housing as a public service. Member States should ensure access to adequate Member States should also ensure access to adequate, affordable and sustainable housing, including public, cooperative, not-for-profit and social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. Publicly supported housing investment should be conditional on fair labour practices and trade-union involvement. In addition to supply-side issues, Member States must also take measures to limit wealth-driven housing financialisation and speculative landlord behaviour, including short-term, rentals, displacement, no-fault evictions, harassment, under-maintenance and “renovictions”, that have been identified as significant contributors to Europe’s housing affordability crisis and increasing socio-spatial inequality. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs. |
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| Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs. | Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. Member States should accelerate planning and permitting procedures, reduce unnecessary regulatory barriers to new housing construction and renovation, make better use of vacant and underused land and buildings and ease subletting of properties in order to increase housing supply. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. This should also include mortgage guarantees and rental aid schemes targeted at young people and first-time buyers to make accessing a home financially possible. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account in the provision of affordable and social housing particularly as regards new builds and renovation of existing housing stock. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled through the Housing First principle, specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs. |
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| Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs. | Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including primarily access to homeownership, as well as access to social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services and at the same time enable and support Member States to provide funding and opportunities for acquiring their first home. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable as well as social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs and is in the interest of working young people having their first child |
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| Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs. | Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households, workers disproportionately affected them and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, particularly by implementing housing first -principle, ensuring that support meets real needs. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should, where appropriate, make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs. | Member States should also ensure access to affordable and sustainable housing, including social housing. Mobilising private and public investments for affordable and social housing, in a context where other supply bottlenecks are also addressed, will be key to achieve progress. In addition, Member States should provide well targeted housing assistance and other support measures, for people in need or in a vulnerable situation. Social economy housing providers, innovative financing models and targeted measures to mobilise vacant housing can be building blocks towards sustainable and inclusive housing solutions. Energy and transport poverty, as well as resilience to health risks and disasters, including those triggered by climate change and environmental degradation, should be addressed with targeted support measures for low-income households and disadvantaged groups. Member States should make effective use of Union funding to invest in affordable and social housing, student housing, housing renovation and accompanying services. The specific needs of persons with disabilities, including accessibility, should be taken into account. Homelessness and housing exclusion should be tackled specifically by boosting the supply of affordable and social housing, prevention measures and promoting an inclusive, people-centred housing-led and integrated approach, ensuring that support meets real needs. |
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| Member States should ensure that the loss of a primary residence through enforcement proceedings is a measure of last resort. Where such proceedings may result in the sale by auction of, or eviction from, a primary residence, individuals and families should have access, before any irreversible consequences arise, to effective and timely judicial review capable of suspending the proceedings and examining the lawfulness and proportionality of the enforcement, including, where applicable, the existence of potentially unfair contractual terms. Particular protection should be afforded to vulnerable debtors and households facing financial hardship, including through accessible debt-restructuring procedures and appropriate social support aimed at preserving their primary residence. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| In a context of increasing longevity and other demographic changes, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed. Pension systems should ensure equal opportunities for women and men to acquire pension rights, including through providing pension credits for care breaks and enhancing saving in broad and inclusive supplementary schemes. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap and measures that extend working lives, such as facilitating active ageing and the labour market participation of older adults to increase the effective retirement age. Member States should promote transparency of pension rights, including through pension tracking services. | In a context of increasing longevity and other demographic changes, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed. Pension systems should ensure equal opportunities for women and men to acquire pension rights, including through providing pension credits for care breaks and enhancing saving in broad and inclusive supplementary schemes. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap and to promote active and healthy ageing to ensure that workers can actually remain in employment until they reach the statutory retirement age. At the same time, workers who wish to remain active after they have reached the retirement age should have the possibility to do so. Member States should promote transparency of pension rights, including through pension tracking services. Member States should establish a constructive dialogue with social partners and other relevant stakeholders, and allow for an appropriate phasing in of the reforms. |
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| In a context of increasing longevity and other demographic changes, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed. Pension systems should ensure equal opportunities for women and men to acquire pension rights, including through providing pension credits for care breaks and enhancing saving in broad and inclusive supplementary schemes. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap and measures that extend working lives, such as facilitating active ageing and the labour market participation of older adults to increase the effective retirement age. Member States should promote transparency of pension rights, including through pension tracking services. | In a context of increasing longevity and other demographic changes, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed. Pension systems should ensure equal opportunities for women and men to acquire pension rights, including through providing pension credits for care breaks. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap and guarantee adequate, accessible and sustainable pensions that enable all workers to retire in dignity, without raising statutory or effective retirement ages. Member States should safeguard the right to retirement and ensure that pension systems take due account of differences in working conditions, arduous and hazardous occupations, inequalities in healthy life expectancy and periods spent outside the labour market due to care responsibilities. Member States should promote transparency of pension rights, including through pension tracking services. |
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| In a context of increasing longevity and other demographic changes, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed. Pension systems should ensure equal opportunities for women and men to acquire pension rights, including through providing pension credits for care breaks and enhancing saving in broad and inclusive supplementary schemes. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap and measures that extend working lives, such as facilitating active ageing and the labour market participation of older adults to increase the effective retirement age. Member States should promote transparency of pension rights, including through pension tracking services. | In a context of increasing longevity and other demographic changes, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed, ensuring decent retirement incomes. Adequate public statutory pensions should remain the cornerstone of old-age income and poverty prevention. Pension systems and labour-market practices should ensure equal opportunities for women and men to acquire pension rights, including through providing pension credits for care breaks. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap. Workers wishing to remain active in the labour market after retirement age should be able to do so voluntarily and flexibly. Part-time and non-standard workers should have equitable access to supplementary pension schemes.Member States should promote transparency of pension rights, including through pension tracking services. |
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| In a context of increasing longevity and other demographic changes, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed. Pension systems should ensure equal opportunities for women and men to acquire pension rights, including through providing pension credits for care breaks and enhancing saving in broad and inclusive supplementary schemes. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap and measures that extend working lives, such as facilitating active ageing and the labour market participation of older adults to increase the effective retirement age. Member States should promote transparency of pension rights, including through pension tracking services. | In a context of increasing longevity and other demographic changes, Member States should secure the adequacy and sustainability of pension systems for workers and the self-employed through a balanced mix of the three pension pillars while safeguarding first pillar pensions. . Pension systems should ensure equal opportunities for women and men to acquire pension rights, including through providing pension credits for care breaks and enhancing saving in broad and inclusive supplementary schemes. Pension reforms should be supported by policies that aim to reduce the gender pension gap and measures that extend working lives, such as facilitating active ageing and the labour market participation of older adults to increase the effective retirement age. Member States should promote transparency of pension rights, including through pension tracking services. |
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| Member States should ensure timely access to affordable preventive and curative healthcare, while safeguarding sustainability in the long term. In the context of an increasing demand for long-term care, also linked to demographic change, gaps in adequacy and availability of services, workforce shortages and poor working conditions should be addressed through comprehensive and integrated measures. Furthermore, Member States should work towards developing care models that are person-centred, ensure smooth transition between different care pathways (e.g. from hospital to home and/or residential care) and address health and long-term care needs in an integrated manner. | Member States should ensure timely access to affordable preventive and curative healthcare, while safeguarding sustainability in the long term. In the context of an increasing demand for long-term care, also linked to demographic change, gaps in adequacy and availability of services, workforce shortages, poor working conditions and frequently inadequate remuneration of carers should be addressed through comprehensive and integrated measures. Furthermore, Member States should work towards developing care models that are person-centred, ensure smooth transition between different care pathways (e.g. from hospital to home and/or residential care) and address health and long-term care needs in an integrated manner. Member states should ensure that unpaid and informal carers also have access to social protection, pension credits, adequate remuneration or compensation, minimum respite periods, financial support and enabling services. Care workers, including migrant and domestic workers, should have declared employment, fair pay, collective-bargaining rights, safe staffing, career progression and protection against burnout, violence and harassment. Public investment should expand affordable, universal and community-based care and reduce dependence on unpaid care. |
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| Member States should ensure timely access to affordable preventive and curative healthcare, while safeguarding sustainability in the long term. In the context of an increasing demand for long-term care, also linked to demographic change, gaps in adequacy and availability of services, workforce shortages and poor working conditions should be addressed through comprehensive and integrated measures. Furthermore, Member States should work towards developing care models that are person-centred, ensure smooth transition between different care pathways (e.g. from hospital to home and/or residential care) and address health and long-term care needs in an integrated manner. | Member States should ensure timely access to affordable preventive and curative healthcare, including mental health services, while safeguarding sustainability in the long term. In the context of an increasing demand for long-term care, also linked to demographic change, gaps in adequacy and availability of services, workforce shortages and poor working conditions should be addressed through comprehensive and integrated measures. Furthermore, Member States should work towards developing care models that are person-centred, ensure smooth transition between different care pathways (e.g. from hospital to home and/or residential care) and address health and long-term care needs in an integrated manner. |
Klára Dobrev, Estelle Ceulemans, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alicia Homs Ginel, Idoia Mendia, Romana Jerković, Marc Angel
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| Member States should ensure timely access to affordable preventive and curative healthcare, while safeguarding sustainability in the long term. In the context of an increasing demand for long-term care, also linked to demographic change, gaps in adequacy and availability of services, workforce shortages and poor working conditions should be addressed through comprehensive and integrated measures. Furthermore, Member States should work towards developing care models that are person-centred, ensure smooth transition between different care pathways (e.g. from hospital to home and/or residential care) and address health and long-term care needs in an integrated manner. | Member States should ensure timely access to affordable preventive and curative quality healthcare, while safeguarding sustainability in the long term. In the context of an increasing demand for long-term care, also linked to demographic change, gaps in adequacy and availability of services, labour shortages and poor working conditions should be addressed through comprehensive and integrated measures. Furthermore, Member States should work towards developing care models that are person-centred, ensure smooth transition between different care pathways (e.g. from hospital to home and/or residential care) and address health and long-term care needs in an integrated manner. |
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@misc{epw-text-empl-am-792013,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{AMENDMENTS 1 - 178 - Draft report Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States}},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-09-02},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/EMPL-AM-792013}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/EMPL-AM-792013},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId EMPL-AM-792013. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}