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On 23-24 January 2019, the TUAC presented its recommendations to the OECD on how to tax digital activities. The efforts towards more coordination at global level are highly needed. Multinationals should be taxed on their global profit based on rules that are Simple, Anti arbitrage, Fair, and ...

Last week the OECD hosted the second annual Private Finance for Sustainable Development Week (PF4SD Week). The week brought together stakeholders from the public and private sector, trade unions and civil society to discuss new approaches in using private finance to reach the Sustainable ...

The recent OECD Economic Outlook contains a special chapter stressing the fact that gains in productivity have not been broadly shared with workers in the majority of OECD countries over the last two decades. The OECD also discusses the implications for public policy. While it is interesting to ...

The major outcome the G20 Leaders’ Meeting in Buenos Aires (30 Nov – 1 Dec) is the very existence of a final declaration (“Building consensus for fair and sustainable development”). Considering trade tensions and disagreements on the climate agenda between G20 countries as well as ...

On Monday 3 December 2018, the OECD presented its 2018 Pensions Outlook. The overall message of the outlook is that pension reforms in the OECD over the last decade have left pension systems more financially sustainable. Yet, that has come at a cost for workers and working families, as the OECD ...

The TUAC holds its annual Liaison Committee with the OECD on 10 December. The discussions are based on a discussion paper on “Growth & Accountability Today, Just Transitions Tomorrow” – which can be downloaded in English, French & Spanish here. The debate held with OECD ...

The TUAC holds its annual Liaison Committee with the OECD on 10 December. The discussions are based on a discussion paper on “Growth & Accountability Today, Just Transitions Tomorrow” – which can be downloaded in English, French & Spanish here. The debate held with OECD ...

  The new Jobs Strategy launched today has the advantage of broadening the OECD’s approach. Its focus is no longer only on quantity, but also on the quality of jobs and on more equal outcomes. Besides providing helpful messages on macro-economic demand-side policy, the OECD now explicitly ...

On 29-30 November 2018, the TUAC took part in the OECD Global Forum on Competition and made a case for breaking up the dominant positions of online platforms. As monopsonies, online platforms have adverse effect on workers’ rights, and therefore consumers’ wealth. The TUAC made some ...

The Labour 20 Statement to the G20 sets out policy recommendations for leaders to take action to reduce inequality, raise minimum wages and strengthen collective bargaining and to make the digital economy work for all. The roadmap for the G20 has been set by the G20 Labour Ministers ...

On the 150th anniversary of the TUC and the 70th anniversary of the TUAC, a joint conference was organised in London on the 12th of November. Under the overarching theme of drawing the lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis, speakers and participants discussed some of the big international economic ...

In its new edition of the Economic Outlook, the OECD is expecting a “soft landing” of the global economy as the latter is believed to already have reached its limits to expand much further. However, the OECD does not exclude a “sharper-than-expected-slowdown” resulting from the combined ...