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 Filip Stefanovic and Adnan Habibija. For more information, please contact stefanovic@tuac.org and habibija@tuac.org.
Download (148.16 KB)TUAC Assessment of the Revised Jobs Strategy
The revised OECD Jobs Strategy approved by the 2018 Ministerial Council has the advantage of broadening the OECD approach, provides helpful messages on macro-economic demand side policy, and openly recognizes the value and benefits of labour market institutions such as minimum wages, collective ...
Moving forward – TUAC elects General Secretary, welcomes CUT Chile, challenges OECD thinking on the Future of Work and the Future of the Firm
On 15 December, the TUAC Plenary elected Pierre Habbard as General Secretary for a four-year term. Habbard thanked the Plenary members for their trust and committed to continue strengthening TUAC’s advocacy function towards influencing OECD policy outcomes, but also to deepen the “support ...
TUAC Liaison Committee with the OECD tackles the Future of Work, the Future of the Firm
The Liaison Committee Meeting (LCM) is an opportunity for the TUAC to exchange views with the OECD Council and the Secretariat on key policy issues and OECD initiatives. At the LCM 2017, the discussion centers on today’s and tomorrow’s employment challenges – the Future of Work – and the ...
OECD Future of Work seminar: Concluding speech by Catelene Passchier
On the 11th of December, the OECD organized, in cooperation with the Dutch Delegation to the OECD, a seminar on the future of work and the future of collective bargaining. Read here the concluding speech from Catelene Passchier, chair of the workers’ group in the ILO and special adviser ...
The OECD re-affirms the need for stronger wages but fails to draw the necessary conclusions regarding the bargaining power of workers
The OECD’s key messages from its interim forecast published today is that the economic upturn is gaining momentum and becoming more synchronised across countries. Importantly, the OECD recognises that weak wage dynamics is as one of the major obstacles that is holding back growth and demand. ...
