scholarly journals Adapt or perish: Recent developments on social protection in the EU under a gig deal of pressure

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ane Aranguiz ◽  
Bartłomiej Bednarowicz
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Recent Position ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Eu

In times of the so-called gig economy, access to an adequate level of social protection should not depend on whether or not a person is working on a standard employment contract. Access to social protection for non-standard forms of labour and self-employment is, as a matter of fact, one of the main themes being discussed at the moment within the debates surrounding the European Pillar of Social Rights. This article aims at assessing the recent initiatives at the EU level that have the objective of ensuring access to social protection for all and both granting and enforcing transparent and predictable working conditions for workers. Accordingly, this contribution first sheds some light on the discussion on non-standard forms of labour and the problematics surrounding the emergence of new forms of labour to later analyse the new EU initiatives, in particular, the proposal for a Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed. It concludes by welcoming the recent position of the EU with regard to such challenges, yet emphasising also the need to do more.

scholarly journals Social Exclusion in Older-Age and the European Pillar of Social Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 421-431
Author(s):  
Maciej Kucharczyk
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Goods And Services

AbstractThe European Pillar of Social Rights is about delivering new and more effective rights for Europeans. It builds upon 20 key principles, structured around three categories: equal opportunities and access to the labour market; fair working conditions; and social protection and inclusion. Directly relevant to older people, the Pillar has the potential to address the multidimensionality of exclusion in later life from a rights-based perspective – for example, by enhancing the rights to quality and affordable health and long-term care, to adequate pensions to live in dignity, to age-friendly working conditions and an inclusive labour market, or to access goods and services. Despite these valuable elements, there remains significant uncertainly around how the Pillar will achieve this and what kind of implemental actions might emerge across member states. This chapter analyses the potential of the European Pillar to address social exclusion of older people in Europe, the challenges that might impede its efforts, and the measures necessary to overcome such challenges.

Article 151 TFEU

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Garben
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Member States ◽  
High Employment

Article 136 EC The Union and the Member States, having in mind fundamental social rights such as those set out in the European Social Charter signed at Turin on 18 October 1961 and in the 1989 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, shall have as their objectives the promotion of employment, improved living and working conditions, so as to make possible their harmonisation while the improvement is being maintained, proper social protection, dialogue between management and labour, the development of human resources with a view to lasting high employment and the combating of exclusion.

Mind the gaps: Universal Credit and self-employment in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-217
Author(s):  
Kevin Caraher ◽  
Enrico Reuter
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Self ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Roll Out

Self-employment in the United Kingdom rose steadily until 2017, as part of wider changes in labour markets towards more flexible and potentially more vulnerable forms of employment. At the same time, welfare reform has continued under the current and previous governments, with a further expansion of conditionality with respect to benefit recipients. The incremental introduction of Universal Credit is likely to intensify the subjection of vulnerable categories of the self-employed to welfare conditionalities and to thus accentuate the ambivalent nature of self-employment. This article analyses the impact of Universal Credit on the self-employed by first discussing elements of precarity faced by the self-employed, and, second, by exploring the consequences of the roll-out of Universal Credit for those self-employed people who are reliant on the social protection system.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT AMONG POLISH AND ROMANIAN IMMIGRANTS IN GERMANY

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek SZARUCKI ◽  
Jan BRZOZOWSKI ◽  
Jelena STANKEVIČIENĖ
Keyword(s):  
German Economy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Romanian Immigrants ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Important Object ◽  
The Eu

This empirical study investigates the determinants of self-employment propensity of Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany. The German economy is an important object of analysis, as it is the most important destination for international migrants in the European Union. In the paper, we use the recently collected M sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine which personal, country of birth-specific socio-economic and cultural factors influence the self-employment propensity of immigrants. The results of binominal logit regression show that the Central European migrants exhibit different self-employment propensity than migrants from former Yugoslavia, Russian and Kazakhstan, Turkey and Italy, with the self-employment aversion especially strong among Romanians. These differences remain substantial even after controlling for social and human capital endowment of the individuals. This study offers important policy recommendations, showing the potential obstacles in encouraging entrepreneurial activity of immigrants. This topic is becoming increasingly important with the current migration crisis in the EU, caused by intensive inflow of asylum-seeking foreigners in 2015.

scholarly journals Regions without borders? Regional governance, migration, and social protection in Africa and Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Deacon ◽  
Lorenzo Fioramonti ◽  
Sonja Nita
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Active Population ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Free Movement Of Workers ◽  
The Eu

In many respects, Europe and Africa (particularly Southern Africa) represent two opposing examples in the study of intra-regional migration and social cohesion. The European Union (EU) has been a global pioneer in allowing freedom of movement and portability of social rights across member states. A centerpiece of the EU integration process has been the progressive establishment of a common market, in which goods, services, capital, and people can move freely. With regard to the la􀄴 er, the concept of free movement originally only targeted the economically active population (in other words, the free movement of workers) but was gradually extended by Treaty amendments to all citizens of the EU. This extension was further strengthened by the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992, which introduced the concept of citizenship in the European Union thereby establishing the fundamental and personal right to move and reside freely within the EU.

scholarly journals Sostenibilidad social en la industria 4.0. Desafío para la UE-2030 = Social sustainability in industry 4.0. Challenge for the EU-2030

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Esperanza Macarena Sierra Benítez
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
The Eu

Resumen: Para 2030, el año en que la Industria 4.0 se establecerá plenamente en la sociedad europea, Europa debe superar grandes desafíos si no quiere perder esa combinación de democracia, derechos sociales y un estado avanzado de bienestar que de alguna manera se ha convertido en su marca registrada. La UE cuenta con dos ámbitos de actuación para afrontar dichos retos: el internacional (acuerdos comerciales, Alianza UE-África, Agenda 2030), y el propio ámbito de la UE (pilar europeo de derechos sociales). Entendemos que es fundamental que los acuerdos comerciales no sólo incluyan cláusulas que aseguren el cumplimiento de unos estándares determinados en materia de medio ambiente y ámbito laboral, sino que así mismo garanticen su efectividad (por ejemplo, mediante la supervisión de la OIT). Igualmente, para asegurar la efectiva aplicación del pilar europeo de derechos sociales, es necesario dotarlo de instrumentos normativos suficientes que garanticen su cumplimiento.Palabras clave: protección social, acuerdos internacionales, pilar europeo de derechos sociales, sostenibilidad social, industria 4.0.Abstract: By 2030, the year in which Industry 4.0 will be fully established in European society, Europe must overcome great challenges if it does not want to lose that combination of democracy, social rights and an advanced state of well-being that somehow has become its trademark. In order to meet these challenges, the EU can count on two lines of action: the international area (trade agreements, EUAfrica Alliance, 2030 Agenda), and the EU itself (European pillar of social rights). We understand that it is essential that trade agreements not only include clauses that ensure compliance with certain standards regarding the environment and work environment, but that also guarantee their effectiveness (for example, through ILO supervision). Likewise, to ensure the effective application of the European pillar of social rights, it is necessary to provide sufficient normative instruments to guarantee its compliance.Keywords: social protection, international agreements, European Pillar of social rights, social sustainability, Industry 4.0.

scholarly journals Impact of the Working Conditions on Health and Selected Job-related Diseases. An International Comparison

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 07025
Author(s):  
Daniela Hrehova ◽  
Pavel Ziaran
Keyword(s):  
Peptic Ulcer ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The Self ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Eu

Research background: The labor markets in the European countries are largely converging under the common platform of the EU legislation. However, the specific labor conditions across the countries still pertain, thus influencing the state of health differently across the countries. Purpose of the article: The article has for objective to reveal the relations between labor conditions (job satisfactions, opportunity to develop, recognition for work, salary adequacy, freedom of decision-making, job stress and social support), on one hand, and the self-perceived state of health, number of chronic diseases and the occurrence of the selected job-related diseases (peptic ulcer, hypertension, heart attack), on the other. The comparison is carried out in the light of the cross-country comparison. Methods: Sample consists of the employed and economically active employees, aged 50+, originating from 16 EU countries, Switzerland and Israel (N = 16 713 participants, females 53%). The data are provided by the EU Share database (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe). We use ranking of countries by means (self-perceived state of health, number of chronic diseases) and the non-parametric regression analysis. Findings & Value added: All analyzed working conditions generate statistically significant relations with the self-perceived state of health at the all countries level. However, at the level of individual countries the patterns differ considerably (what rises methodological concerns on different country samples). As regards the specific diseases, considered as work-related: peptic ulcer is associated with all the working conditions analyzed, hypertension associates with four working factors and heart-attack with three. Findings bring important implications for the HR managers and relevant policy-makers.

scholarly journals Predictability of working conditions as a prerequisite for effective exercise of labor rights: A review of directive (EU) 2019/1152

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1339-1362
Author(s):  
Ljubinka Kovačević
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Law ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Council Directive ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
Employment Rights ◽  
Obligation To Inform ◽  
The Eu

Employee, as a weaker (legally subordinate and economically dependent) party to the employment relationship, needs to be informed about working conditions in a timely and appropriate manner, especially in countries where the employment contract does not have to be concluded in writing. Providing information on working conditions to the employees, therefore, represents an important prerequisite for effective enjoyment of employment rights, because it allows them to properly assess their own employment status, and in the event of a labor dispute, makes it easier to prove the contractual working conditions. This can also contribute to the fairness of the competition on the market, as well as the suppression of undeclared work, because absence of an employer's written notice regarding working conditions can serve as an indicator, to the labor inspection and other relevant authorities, of violation of labor rights in a particular entreprise. Although an employer's obligation to inform workers about working conditions is regulated in detail by the Council Directive 91/533/EEC at the EU level, many workers are denied written notice, due to, amongst other things, the emergence of new forms of employment that are heavily associated with the risk of difficulty in exercising labor rights. Directive (EU) 2019/1152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union, which is applied to the new forms of employment, as well as to bogus self-employment seeks to overcome this risk, and, in addition to expanding the circle of persons who have to be notified, it also establishes the catalog of minimum rights of all workers. Therefore, the article critically discusses the key solutions from the new directive, pointing out the risk that such a wide circle of protected persons may deter employers from establishing employment, as well as from consistent application of relevant (labor law, social law and tax law) regulations.

scholarly journals Social protection for the self-employed in the UK: the disappearing contributions increase

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-251
Author(s):  
Fran Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual State ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
National Insurance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Parental Benefits ◽  
Recent Government

A recent government proposal to increase national insurance contributions for the self-employed in the UK, in return for improved pensions and potentially also parental benefits, was immediately reversed. This article analyses the reasons behind this about-turn, linking them to tensions between the goals of thwarting ‘bogus’ self-employment and increasing tax revenues versus commitment to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare economy. The analysis is set in the context of the singularity of the UK system in relation to much social protection in continental Europe, and wider debates about the roles of individual, state and labour market in providing security.

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