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📢 #CollectiveBargaining is the most important tool for ensuring quality jobs, good working conditions, and adequate wages that provide a decent standard of living. Over the past 20 years, however, collective bargaining coverage across the EU has steadily declined.![]()
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⚖️ The EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages requires countries below 80 % coverage to adopt national action plans, yet only 9 of 18 have done so. ![]()
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👉️ Join the ETUI conference next week to assess progress and next steps.![]()
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📆 2 March ⏱️ 18:00 - 20:00 👇 Register📢 ETUI conference: The road to 80% #CollectiveBargaining coverage![]()
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Collective bargaining is key to quality jobs, fair wages, and decent working conditions. However, over the past two decades, collective bargaining coverage across the EU has steadily declined.![]()
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✍️ ⏳️ The EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages requires Member States with coverage below 80% to adopt national action plans. The deadline for the establishment of the action plan was the end of 2025, yet only 9 of the 18 countries have submitted their action plans. ![]()
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🗓️ Three months after the submission deadline, this event will:![]()
✔️ Take stock of recent developments![]()
✔️ Discuss how EU-level measures can better support national implementation![]()
✔️ Explore concrete measures to progressively increase collective bargaining coverage![]()
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📖 The discussion will draw on recent ETUI research, including the report 'Here Comes the Sun', which analyses the implementation and political impact of the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages — the first EU legislation explicitly promoting stronger minimum wage protection and collective bargaining.![]()
🔗 Read the report by ETUI senior researcher, Torsten Müller: etui.org/4J2![]()
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📌 Join the discussion on 2 March 🕛️ 18:00 - 20:00![]()
👉️ Explore the programme and register by 27 February: etui.org/4J6
⚖️ The #CSDDD was conceived to safeguard human rights and the environment from corporate harm. 🇪🇺 Member States now have until July 2028 to transpose the Omnibus I directive into national law. ![]()
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☝ It is essential that governments use this process to strengthen and improve the CSDDD, ensuring that national legislation fulfils the Directive’s original purpose. ![]()
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📣 How can companies better integrate worker-centred approaches to their due diligence processes? ![]()
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🎙️📟Listen to the latest episode of Frankly Speaking – A podcast on Responsible Business, where Benjamin Claeson from Swedwatch, and BGIWF's Babul Akhter discuss why current efforts towards corporate due diligence are failing to adequately protect workers and communities globally, and how stronger engagement with worker-centred approaches can help bridge this gap.![]()
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Podcast 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/75uPxowTkHULvz9deuVmXn?si=BzN8Wjy2T8aRL5zhALNgBw&nd=1&dlsi=32380585753f4dd9 ![]()
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📒 A new Swedwatch report “Overdue Diligence” shows that limited funding for worker and community driven due diligence approaches is undermining efforts to hold companies accountable to human rights and environmental standards. ![]()
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swedwatch.org/themes/funding-to-enable-worker-and-community-driven-due-diligence/![]()
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#Sustainability #CorporateDueDiligence #overduediligence #humanrights #EnvironmentalStandards #garmentindustry #omnibus #enforcement #podcast
Funding to enable worker and community driven due diligence - Swedwatch
swedwatch.org
A new Swedwatch report shows that limited funding for worker and community driven due diligence approaches is undermining efforts to hold companies accountable to human rights and environmental standa...
🇪🇺 Parlamentin työllisyysvaliokunta (EMPL) kokoontuu tällä viikolla.![]()
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📌 Euroopan parlamentin työllisyysvaliokunta (EMPL) järjestää maanantaina 23.2. Euroopan parlamentaarisen viikon yhteydessä kaksi parlamenttienvälistä kokousta. Puheenjohtajina toimivat Li Andersson (EMPL) ja Andreas Kafkalias (Kypros).![]()
👉 15.30-18.30 (CET): Keskustelut kilpailukykyteemasta ja oikeudenmukaisista työmarkkinoista vihreässä ja digitaalisessa siirtymässä.![]()
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📌 Valiokunta kokoontuu keskiviikkona 25.2. klo 9.00-11:00 (CET) käsittelemään muun muassa:![]()
👉 työntekijöiden suojelua syöpädirektiivin kuudennessa tarkistuksessa (CMRD 6)![]()
👉 päätöslauselmaa työperäisten kuolemien vähentämisestä ja Vision Zero -lähestymistavan edistämisestä![]()
👉 Euroopan ohjausjakson työllisyys- ja sosiaaliprioriteetteja (vuosiraportti 2026)![]()
👉️ EU:n monivuotisen rahoituskehyksen 2028–2034 väliraporttia![]()
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🔴 Striimaus käytössä 👇![]()
www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/empl/meetings/webstreaming
