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 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 ...
Download (822.39 KB)New priorities emerge from the TUAC Roundtable on Trade Union Responses to Covid-19 – De nouvelles priorités émergent d’une table ronde du TUAC
Version française ci-dessous In a first virtual roundtable with trade union members, OECD country representatives and the OECD secretariat, the TUAC brought together perspectives from Korea, Spain, the US and Denmark on the labour and social dimension of the Covid-19 crisis. Social partners and ...
28 April: International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers – Trade unions call for COVID-19 to be treated as occupational disease
(Version française ci-dessous) (Versión en español a continuación) On the occasion of the 28 April International Commemoration Day for the Dead and Injured Workers, the TUAC joins the labour movement´s call for governments and occupational health and safety bodies around the world to ...
G20 – ITUC’s General Secretary, Sharan Burrow’s remarks at the extraordinary G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting
Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, calls on the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers at their meeting on Covid-19 to co-ordinate a global response with G20 support and leadership: on global funding for social protection; on global cooperation and coherence on support to non-essential global ...
Economic Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis – by John Evans
John Evans, former General Secretary of the TUAC, writes about the covid-19 crisis and draws some lessons from the 2008-2009 crisis, including: Countries which preserve jobs and value workers will be the most resilient to this and future shocks Policies and their financing must be socially fair ...
