05 July 2016
TUAC releases trade union assessment and guidance papers on the OECD “BEPS” package to counter corporate tax avoidance practices
With the release of the final set of measures and recommendations on tackling aggressive corporate tax planning by the OECD in October 2015 as part of the first phase of the 15-point Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) adopted by the G20 in 2013, it is now up to governments to ...
24 June 2016
Outcomes of the OECD Ministerial and Trade Union Forum on the Digital Economy
TUAC as one of the stakeholder groups to the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy organised a Trade Union Forum on “Sustainable & Inclusive Innovation: Quality Jobs and Skills in the Digital Economy” in Cancun, Mexico. Discussions at the Forum amongst over 60 trade union ...
01 June 2016
Priorities & Background Paper for the OECD Digital Economy Ministerial 2016
On 21 June 2016, TUAC as one of the stakeholder groups to the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy ( http://www.oecd.org/internet/ministerial/events/stakeholdersforums/ ) is organising a Trade Union Forum on “Sustainable & Inclusive Innovation: Quality Jobs and Skills in the ...
01 June 2016
Priorities & Background Paper for the OECD Digital Economy Ministerial 2016
On 21 June 2016, TUAC as one of the stakeholder groups to the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy ( http://www.oecd.org/internet/ministerial/events/stakeholdersforums/ ) is organising a Trade Union Forum on “Sustainable & Inclusive Innovation: Quality Jobs and Skills in the ...
11 April 2016
What the Panama Papers mean for the OECD
The release of the « Panama Papers » calls for the strengthening of the OECD Global Forum standards and rating system. But it also has implications for financial reform, trade and investment liberalisation. The « Panama Papers » leaked by the International Consortium of Investigative ...
24 March 2016
2nd Joint OECD-DAC and Trade Union Forum: “Donors and labour movement strategies to implement the UN 2030 Agenda”
Meeting report and joint conclusion now available The 2nd Joint OECD-DAC and Trade Union Forum, organised in Paris by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) and the Trade Union Development Cooperation Network (TUDCN) addressed the ...
19 February 2016
Trade Unions at the OECD-DAC High Level Meeting in Paris, 18-19 February 2016
The trade union movement was recently represented at the High Level Meeting of the DAC (HLM) through the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC). John Evans, General Secretary of TUAC, and Paola Simonetti, Coordinator for the Trade Union Development Cooperation Network (TUDCN), were able ...
18 February 2016
OECD Global Economic Outlook and Interim Economic Outlook 2016: Trade Unions call for a collective policy response to strengthen demand, create jobs and lift
The OECD, in its latest interim economic forecast, released today, expresses strong concern about the situation of the global economy, points to financial instability and calls for a “stronger collective policy response to strengthen demand and employment growth”. The OECD is right to do so: ...
02 February 2016
Labour 20 (L20) Launches in Beijing for China’s Presidency of the G20 in 2016
John Evans, TUAC General Secretary said on unchanged policies the jobs gap continues to rise and by 2019, more than 212 million people will be out of work, up from 201 million in 2014. Almost 74 million young people aged 15 – 24 were looking for work in 2014, with young women disproportionately ...
31 January 2016
Regulatory quality for whom and for what?
The OECD way of defining “good regulation” has traditionally been pro-business, pro-trade. But things could change. Hopefully. In October 2015 the OECD released the first edition of a new publication: the Regulatory Policy Outlook. The report develops at length the good practices that should ...
20 January 2016
A message for the world’s leaders at Davos: Mind deflation, (re)build stronger collective bargaining systems
The IMF released its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update yesterday pointing to persistently weak growth and another downward revision of its projected growth rates for 2016 and 2017 by 0.2 percentage points each year. Despite this, the IMF’s growth trajectory still sees the world economy ...
15 December 2015
2nd Joint OECD-DAC and Trade Union Forum, Paris, 14 December 2015
The 2nd Joint OECD-DAC and Trade Union Forum took place in Paris on Monday 14 December 2015, on the topic “Donors and labour movement strategies to implement the UN 2030 Agenda”. At the September 2015 UN General Assembly, Heads of State adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The ...
