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Labour market policy

Ensuring employment opportunities for all with fair wages and decent working conditions are key trade union principles. The OECD makes policy recommendations and publishes studies that influence labour market policies including working conditions and wages, the retirement age, and workers’ rights.

Through our engagement with the OECD’s Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee and its working parties, as well as the OECD’s Action Programme for Local Employment and Economic Development, TUAC is working to ensure that these recommendations and studies support and promote job quality, fair wages and strong labour market institutions and social dialogue, including collective bargaining and trade union representation.

TUAC’s work in this area is led by Ronald Janssen and Filip Stefanovic. For more information, please contact janssen@tuac.org and stefanovic@tuac.org.

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13 November 2024

Trade unions call for public investment and fiscal policies to support steel sector recovery

TUAC, IndustriALL Global Union and industriAll Europe expressed their profound concern about the cumulative loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the steel sector and related industries, globally, and many more currently on the line. The trade union representatives attending the OECD Steel Committee ...

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31 October 2024

Job retention: social dialogue and reformed short-time work helped Spain weather COVID

A new publication from the OECD highlights that the labour market in Spain showed substantially more resilience during the COVID-19 crisis compared to the global financial crisis. Whereas unemployment in the earlier crisis skyrocketed by 18 percentage points, it only increased modestly by 3 ...

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23 October 2024

Unions step up their engagement with work of the OECD in Latin America

TUAC and national union centres significantly stepped up their engagement with the work of the OECD in Latin America this week. The OECD is increasingly involved in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the most unequal regions in the world. Almost one in three people in Latin America live in ...

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05 June 2024

The OECD’s Productivity Review of Spain: Continued support for social dialogue and worker representation is necessary to revive broadly shared productivity

In a new publication, jointly released today with Spain’s Second Vice-President and Minister of Labour and Social Economy Yolanda Díaz Pérez, the OECD takes a closer look at the twin challenges that Spain is confronting: how to revive productivity growth and ensure that it is broadly shared? ...

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24 April 2024

Unions urge G7 to deliver on wage growth

Trade unions call on G7 Labour and Employment Ministers to deliver the “sustainable growth and real wage growth” which G7 Leaders committed to at last year’s G7 summit. In a joint statement by unions from G7 countries pointing out that real wages “in almost all G7 countries remain below ...

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23 January 2024

Over 40 governments commit to address healthcare workforce shortages by improving working conditions

Ministers and government representatives from over 40 countries committed at an OECD Health Ministerial meeting in Paris today to “address health workforce shortages by concerted action to train, retain, and improve the working conditions of health and care workers”. Trade unions will be asking ...

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13 December 2023

Early retirement for arduous work: OECD needs to do reality check

In its new report Pensions at a glance 2023, the OECD strongly advocates  limiting  workers’ rights to early retirement for arduous work. The report argues that “being unable to continue working in the same occupation […] should not imply permanently retiring from the labour market” and ...