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.
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 ...
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 ...
Shaky jobs and economic insecurity: new OECD report
A new OECD report “On shaky grounds? Income Instability and Economic Insecurity in Europe” shows that one in six households suffer highly unstable income flows and do not have sufficient funds to stave off poverty for three months. ...
OECD finds better jobs give as much life satisfaction as increasing national income by a quarter
A new OECD report published today, ‘How to make societies thrive?’, describes how job instability and poor working conditions can lead to increased fatigue, risk of burnout or depression and declining mental health. It finds that people at risk of mental health problems are 3 times more likely ...
Latin America and the Caribbean Ministers recognise need for social dialogue for a Just Transition and coherent labour market policies
The Latin America and the Caribbean Ministerial Summit on Environmental Sustainability Economic Resilience, Green and Just Transition has adopted an Action Plan recognising the need for “coherent labour market policies, relying on effective social dialogue, to facilitate a just transition into ...
Secure Jobs & Better Pay in Australia
Q. What is the Australian Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act 2022? Michele O’Neil: A new Labor Government was elected in May 2022, with a mandate from voters to strengthen rights for workers. The Act was the first major piece of industrial relations reform by the new Government after 9 years of attacks ...
OECD puts spotlight on low pay and poor working conditions in long-term care
The OECD has today published a report on long-term care workforce, highlighting low pay and poor working conditions, and makes a number of recommendations to reduce staff shortages and high staff turnover in the sector. The ‘Beyond Applause’ report finds that across OECD countries Care workers ...
Economic Policy for a Just Transition – TUAC statement for the annual OECD Ministerial Council Meeting 2023
Economic Policy for a Just Transition – TUAC statement for the annual OECD Ministerial Council Meeting 2023 ...
G7 Summit: under pressure to deliver on wages, collective bargaining and social protection
Japan hosts the G7 Summit of the Leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA and the EU – on 19-21 May in Hiroshima with ‘economic resilience and security’ high on the agenda. Leaders will meet in times of high geopolitical uncertainty and in global economic slowdown, and rising ...
11 out of 38 OECD countries have ratified NEITHER of the two fundamental conventions on health and safety at work
ILO Conventions 155 and 187 are classified as fundamental conventions – meaning that they are considered fundamental principles and basic rights, like the elimination of child and forced labour. Despite their importance, neither convention has been ratified by 11 OECD countries! No G7 country – ...
