[PRESS RELEASE] The World Employment Confederation-Europe launches “Making Europe the best place to work”, the private employment industry’s vision for labour markets for the next five years. As the EU prepares for a new Parliament and Commission to take over, WEC-Europe proposes five areas of focus and a series of concrete policy measures to help European people and companies adapt to changes in the world of work.
On 5 December, the World Employment Confederation-Europe gathered European policymakers and stakeholders in Brussels to discuss how social innovation should guide future EU employment policies and demonstrate how it is already implemented today through concrete examples from six WEC-Europe members. Social innovation is at the core of our 2019-2014 Vision Paper for Europe released alongside the event.
The World Employment Confederation Europe believes that social innovation is the right approach for designing a new European employment strategy and for reinventing ways of working, learning and ensuring social protection to fit the new world of work, writes Bettina Schaller, President of the World Employment Confederation – Europe, for EurActiv.
Continuing on a long-standing tradition of joint discussions and research projects, the World Employment Confederation-Europe and UNI Europa have adopted their work programme for the EU Sectoral Social Dialogue in the temporary agency work sector for the next two years. With social innovation, regulatory challenges and capacity building, the agenda is not short of topics to address.
There is no silver bullet to adapt to the new realities of the world of work but more proactive skills policies, diverse forms of work and increased cooperation between public and private employment services are good steps forward, concluded a debate organised by Trenkwalder and the World Employment Confederation-Europe on 24 October in Vienna. Gathering key Austrian stakeholders, the event discussed employment models of the future and how these trends will affect European labour markets.
