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The OECD International Migration Outlook 2025, published this week, provides important data on migrant workers but misses crucial opportunities to address labour exploitation and discrimination, TUAC finds. This is particularly concerning given the report’s estimation of a 34% initial earnings ...

The OECD 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report published yesterday sheds light on important trends as well as significant gaps in corporate practices related to sustainability and compliance with environmental and social standards. TUAC challenged companies and policymakers to strengthen corporate ...

Trade unions engaged with policymakers on the unequal distribution of trade benefits at the OECD workshop on trade and jobs, held on 15th October. TUAC representatives called for stronger protections for workers during the event, which explored the critical relationship between trade policies, ...

Trade unions welcome the French National Contact Point’s (NCP) critical assessment of Shein’s business practices, demonstrating how the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises can serve as a powerful tool for initiating dialogue and supporting holding corporations to account. The ...

While many countries across the OECD are seeking to bolster competitiveness and productivity by simplifying regulations and cutting so-called “red tape”, TUAC warns against the risks of a new wave of outright deregulation which will lower protections for workers, increase inequality and ...

TUAC welcomes the groundbreaking amendments to South Korea’s Trade Union and Labour Relations Adjustment Act (TULRAA), which significantly expand workers’ rights and employer accountability across supply chains. Trade unions fought for over two decades to secure these reforms that ...

Trade unions welcome the OECD’s new report “To Have and Have Not – How to Bridge the Gap in Opportunities”, but warn governments that equal opportunities are not enough to tackle today’s high levels of inequality, and that the report’s framing risks understating the role of systemic ...

The OECD’s latest Interim Economic Outlook, published today, fails to address the urgent needs of workers facing a “double squeeze” from sluggish growth and restrictive monetary policy. Despite the OECD projecting slightly improved global growth for 2025 (revised to 3.2% from ...

The OECD’s latest report on gender equality reveals that significant workplace inequalities endure across OECD and EU countries, with TUAC highlighting critical policy gaps in addressing systemic wage disparities affecting women workers. In 2023, the median full-time working woman earned 11% ...

Governments are undermining their own revenue generation through contradictory tax policies, trade unions warn in response to the OECD’s Tax Policy Reforms 2025 report. The OECD report shows encouraging signs that more countries raised corporate tax rates than cut them for the second ...

Trade unions are calling for increased education investment, strengthened teaching profession support, and expanded support for learners following today’s publication of the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2025, which exposed mounting workforce pressures and persistent educational ...

L20 members met in George, South Africa, on 28-29 July, under the theme: “Fostering Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability through a New Social Contract”. Trade union leaders from G20 countries and beyond, discussed trade union priorities to advance industrial policy and a Just Transition; the ...