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.
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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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
