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05 December 2018

Launch of the new Jobs Strategy: Good on objectives, ambiguous on policy

  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 ...

30 November 2018

How can competition contribute to fairer societies? TUAC raises the alarm bell on market concentration of online platforms

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 ...

30 November 2018

G20 Summit Buenos Aires: Co-ordinated action for global growth with decent jobs and wages needed to rebuild trust in G20

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 ...

23 November 2018

Lessons From the Crisis: Joint TUAC TUC Anniversary Conference

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 ...

21 November 2018

OECD Economic Outlook: Revival of pre cisis concepts ?

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 ...

21 November 2018

TUAC comments on integrity in state-owned enterprises and privatisations

At a recent meeting of the OECD Working Party on State Ownership and Privatisation Practices (14 November 2018), the TUAC submitted written comments on on-going OECD work on anti-corrution and integrity for state-owned enterprises and on privatisation.   The TUAC supports the OECD work on ...

13 November 2018

Bringing Social Inclusion at the Heart of the OECD Work

On the occasion of the 40th session of the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee on 7 and 8 November 2018, the TUAC called upon the OECD to focus on social inclusion and just transitions in the run-up to a Regional Policy Ministerial in Spring 2019 which among others aims at defining broad ...

02 November 2018

TUAC calls for a sustainable trade and investment agenda at the OECD/ Appel du TUAC à l’OCDE pour un agenda durable sur le commerce et

TUAC welcomes the opportunity to participate into the discussions of the “OECD investment week” (22-23 october). While international trade opening and foreign investment offer opportunities for growth and for job creation, there are a number of well-known downside risks if policies, both ...

02 November 2018

TUAC calls for enhancing the corporate governance agenda at the OECD/ Appel du TUAC à l’OCDE pour un agenda renforcé sur la gouvernance

On 16 october 2018, the TUAC held consultations with the OECD Committee on Corporate Governance and took part in a committee roundtable on compay group structures, together with the business counterpart the BIAC. The TUAC shared the following submission, the key policy messages being: Current ...

26 October 2018

OECD Focus on the Future of Work – TUAC Recommendations

To help frame the upcoming OECD “narrative” on the Future of Work (FoW) and the ongoing Going Digital Horizontal Project, the TUAC has developed a set of policy recommendations. They build on inputs from TUAC affiliates, the revised OECD Jobs Strategy, core ILO standards and OECD work on ...

04 October 2018

National strategies on work 4.0 & the role of trade unions – EESC Study

To help frame the upcoming OECD “narrative” on the Future of Work (FoW) and the ongoing Going Digital Horizontal Project, the TUAC has developed a set of policy recommendations. They build on inputs from TUAC affiliates, the revised OECD Jobs Strategy, core ILO standards and OECD work on ...

04 October 2018

National strategies on work 4.0 & the role of trade unions – EESC Study

To help frame the upcoming OECD “narrative” on the Future of Work (FoW) and the ongoing Going Digital Horizontal Project, the TUAC has developed a set of policy recommendations. They build on inputs from TUAC affiliates, the revised OECD Jobs Strategy, core ILO standards and OECD work on ...