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.
TUAC Assessment of the OECD Employment Outlook 2020
Employment Outlook 2020 TUAC Secretariat Assessment Summary In less than three months, the COVID-19 crisis wiped out the employment gains painfully achieved with the slow recovery from the Great Recession of 2008. In the absence of a second wave, current projections hint to a record unemployment ...
OECD calls for extended sick leave for workers exposed to COVID-19
(Version française ci-dessous) A new OECD policy brief concludes that that paid sick leave can be a particularly effective tool during de-confinement. The TUAC agrees and further calls on governments to recognise COVID-19 as an occupational disease and to uphold and extend measures to ...
Crise du Covid 19: cartographie des réponses syndicales et des partenaires sociaux
Dernière mise à jour: 30 Juin 2020 Avec la crise sanitaire causée par la propagation de l’épidémie de Covid 19 et les mesures de confinement prises par la suite, les implications économiques et sur le marché du travail sont graves. Les partenaires sociaux et les syndicats des pays de ...
Covid19 crisis: Mapping out trade union and social partners’ responses
Last updated : 30 June 2020 With the health crisis caused by the epidemic spread of Covid 19 and the subsequent confinement measures taken, the economic and labour market implications are severe. Social partners and trade unions in OECD countries are issuing responses, agreements and calls for ...
Crisis del COVID-19: Respuestas de los sindicatos y los interlocutores sociales
Última actualización: 30 de junio 2020 La crisis sanitaria causada por la propagación epidémica del COVID-19 y las medidas de confinamiento tomadas posteriormente han acarreado graves implicaciones tanto para la economía como para el mercado de trabajo. Los interlocutores sociales y los ...
Download (199.92 KB)Paying the price of failed policies: New OECD report looks at a suffering long-term care sector
(Version française ci-dessous) Nursing homes has been the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic and has suffered not only high mortality rates amongst care receivers but also extremely difficult working conditions for workers. A new OECD report, Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for ...
2020 ITUC Global Rights Index: Several OECD countries amongst the worst for workers / Indice CSI des droits dans le monde 2020: Plusieurs pays de l’OCDE
The ITUC, sister organisation of the TUAC at the international level, publishes today its much awaited annual report on workers’ rights globally. The 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index details the grim situation faced by workers and a breakdown of the social contract. Across the world, governments ...
TUAC Plenary marked by COVID-19 – Calls for strong OECD response/ La plénière du TUAC marquée par COVID-19 – Appels à une réponse forte de
EN (version FR ci-dessous) (versión en español a continuación) On 26 May 2020, the TUAC held its 144th Plenary meeting in the shadow of the COVID-19 crisis. At the meeting, the Plenary discussed the ongoing COVID-19 crisis including its severe impact on economies, employment and workers. Ahead ...
Indicative unemployment forecasts and the importance of collective bargaining in the context of COVID-19 / Prévisions de chômage indicatives et importance de
Indicative unemployment forecasts and the importance of collective bargaining to restore the economy in the context of COVID-19 Paris, 15 May 2020 Key findings The COVID-19 crisis represents an unprecedented threat to the global economy, and the length and impact of containment measures on ...
