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 (209.10 KB)OECD finds that centralised or coordinated collective bargaining strengthens labour markets
The 2017 Employment Outlook the OECD published today concludes that centralised and coordinated collective bargaining systems is one of the only two labour market institutions that work to keep unemployment under control when the economy is hit by a shock. In doing so, the OECD confirms trade union ...
HAS THE OECD JOINED THE CAMPAIGN FOR HIGHER WAGES?
HAS THE OECD JOINED THE CAMPAIGN FOR HIGHER WAGES? Trade unions tend to see wages not as a factor of competitiveness but as engine that drives demand, growth and jobs. The OECD Economic Outlook published today at the start of the Ministerial Council meeting supports this view. It confirms the link ...
GOING FOR GROWTH AND INCLUSIVENESS?
“Going for Growth” is one of the flagship publications of the OECD Economics Department. It contains a country specific list of “what-to- reform” in order to improve employment and productivity performance. The novelty in the 2017 version of this report, released on the 17th of March, is ...
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 ...
