scholarly journals The EU social pillar

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schoukens ◽  
Alberto Barrio ◽  
Saskia Montebovi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Standard Employment Relationship ◽  
The Eu

With atypical work gaining popularity, platform work seems to combine all the elements which, by deviating significantly from the standard employment relationship, challenge social security systems. After an overview of the features of the standard employment relationship and the different ways in which non-standard forms of work diverge from them, the article focuses on the nature of platform work. It then analyses how platform work is regulated in five European social security systems (i.e. Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium), and how this regulation may fare when analysed under the lens of the recent European Commission’s proposal for a Council Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed. The article concludes by highlighting the need for further adaptation of social security systems to the specific features of platform work, and by noting the risks of a regulatory approach towards this new form of work being dominated by the exclusion of low-paid work from the scope of labour-related social insurance schemes.

Digitalisation and social security in the EU. The case of platform work: from work protection to income protection?

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-451
Author(s):  
Paul Schoukens
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
Precarious Situation ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Specific Working

Platform workers face problems in accessing effective social protection schemes. Furthermore, these workers are not always in a position to build up robust social protection rights even in case they can participate in the schemes. Compared to standard workers, they work in a precarious situation. The small tasks they perform, their geographical mobility and their low earnings are issues that create problems for social security systems’ ability to accommodate these workers. In this contribution, attention to the specific working conditions of platform workers is given; starting from the concept of standard work and a discussion of the way platform work deviates from that performed by standard workers (the original basis used to design traditional social protection schemes). In a second part of this paper, the various challenges that platform work create for social protection schemes are enunciated. In the third part of the contribution, the recent EU Recommendation on access to social protection is used as a yardstick to discuss what kind of answers should be given to accommodate platform workers in social protection schemes. In the final part, conclusions around three elements that are characteristic of platform work, yet not sufficiently addressed in national social protection schemes, nor in the EU Recommendation, are developed. These observations help to establish findings on the future outlook of social protection schemes, which should be inclusive and accommodative for all (new) types of work.

scholarly journals Adapting social protection to the needs of multiple jobholders in Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 102425892199103
Author(s):  
Lukas Jerg ◽  
Jacqueline O’Reilly ◽  
Karin Schulze Buschoff
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Employment System ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Platform Economy ◽  
Different Levels

Working in two or more jobs at the same time creates special needs in terms of social security that differ from those of standard dependent employees or the self-employed. To investigate how well social security systems adapt to multiple jobholders we examine three case studies of countries with different levels and trends in multiple jobholding: Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany. We review recent trends and policies to address social protection gaps for multiple jobholders in these countries prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the extent to which the emergence of the ‘platform economy’ can exacerbate multiple jobholding. We conclude that attempts to resolve the gaps in social security protection reflect distinctive characteristics of each employment system.

scholarly journals The Problem of Social Protection in Albania

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Arlinda Shkreli Axhemi ◽  
Gert Dragoshi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Social Insurance System ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
The Social

The aim of this paper is to analyze the social protection system in Albania during the last two decades. It highlights some of the problems and issues which are closely associated with elements of social security, as a phenomenon that focuses on finding solutions or solving the problems in social security systems in Albania. Of great importance are the changes in the social security legislation in recent years, which led to a new structure of the social insurance market in Albanian society. Also discussed are the types of benefits offered by our social insurance system. Our country occupies a special place in relation to the problems it has encountered with social protection and the social security law.

Creating perspectives, negotiating social Europe

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Jacobi ◽  
Judith Kirton-Darling
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Wage System ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Social Europe

In this introduction to the eight reports on different sectoral dialogues, the coordinators of this issue provide an inventory of the different forms of social dialogue in the EU. It is argued that trade unions have hitherto made insufficient use of the opportunities offered by social dialogue but that the sectoral social dialogue offers a forum for unions to cooperate with employers to develop policies to safeguard Europeanised industries. Two fields of action are identified as being particularly suitable for Europe-wide campaigning: common rules for the European labour market, including a European minimum wage system, and a ‘citizens insurance’ to sustain social security systems.

scholarly journals The changing concept of work

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schoukens ◽  
Alberto Barrio
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Recent Developments

In most countries, a standard (or core) model of employment relationship (i.e. full-time work under an open-ended employment contract) typically receives the greatest labour and social security protection, with divergent work arrangements receiving less protection in correlation to the magnitude of the differences between the former and the latter. However, recent developments concerning non-standard forms of work may question this dynamic. In this article, we examine the nature and current evolution of the standard employment relationship, then analyse how other forms of work deviate from this standard. In order to do so, we draw on the conclusions of the numerous studies recently published by scholars and international organisations in the wake of the growing public debate on the ‘new world of work’. Afterwards, we analyse the situation of non-standard workers under certain social security systems, in order to determine how those systems have approached the divergent character of these forms of work. This leads us to identify the main challenges that social security systems experience when faced with non-standard forms of work. The article concludes by addressing the need to adapt the basic principles of social security to the atypical features of non-standard work.

scholarly journals INGRESO MÍNIMO VITAL Y NACIONALES BRITÁNICOS EN ESPAÑA EN TIEMPOS DEL BREXIT.

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-76
Author(s):  
Thais Guerrero Padrón
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

As from 1 January 2021, after the end of the transitional period imposed by the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, the UK will be for all purposes a third State and its nationals considered as “foreigners”. The change of status of the UK raises interesting questions regarding the social security rights of EU citizens and UK nationals. This paper deals with the possibility of access to the Minimum Living Income benefit for British nationals residing in Spain, either under the Spanish immigration laws or within the framework of the EU Regulations on the Coordination of Social Security systems. As a core issue, the identification of the Minimum Life Income benefit with the special non-contributory benefits of Article 70 of Regulation 883/2004 is argued. To this respect, the lack of inclusion of the Spanish benefit in Annex X can be considered as a serious oversight, possibly rectifiable by regulation and very necessary to avoid the conflict that this lack of clarification could generate

scholarly journals Digital Single Market and coordination of social security systems – interoperability solutions at the service of social protection

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Sophie Perez Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
High Quality

One of the fundamental pillars to the full achievement of the Digital Single Market is the development of eGovernment/e-administration. As a key priority of the current moment of the European integration process, the implementation of the Digital Single Market has the potential to lay down the foundations for a public administration capable of providing crossborder mobility in the Single Market of the Union by means of high quality, interoperable and digital public services. To exemplify the characteristics outlined for the configuration of a public administration of the Digital Single Market, we will seek to give concrete form to the model that is emerging in a specific area of EU law which has critical importance for the European integration process – the coordination of social security systems. Its consideration allows us to test the implementation of the Digital Single Market in the public sector through digital, interoperable, and high-quality cross-border public administration.

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