World Employment Confederation-WEC groups

In addition to the standing committees established by its Constitution, the World Employment Confederation set up other groups pertinent to certain topics or interests. All members are free to join the groups they are interested in.

Global Public Affairs Network

The Global Public Affairs Network supports the Head Office in developing global labour market policy positioning and advocacy. It assembles the public affairs specialists from the industry to reflect upon the input to be provided by the World Employment Confederation into policy processes of the OECD, the ILO and other policy-makers and to support the broad global public affairs planning and strategy of the organisation.

Career Management Network

The mission of the Career Management Network is to promote the added value of the industry to a better functioning labour market and to strive for a (regulatory) environment that enables the career management industry to best deliver its services in support of companies, workers and job seekers. Additionally, the group ensures that the interests of the career management industry is reflected in the WEC strategic decisions and activities, as part of their broadening scope.

Communications & Marketing Network

The Communications & Marketing Network supports the Head Office in the development and implementation of the WEC’s communication strategy. The goals of this Network are:

Better align WEC’s communication strategy with members’ needs and own communication activities
Increase members’ engagement by better relaying WEC’s activities internally
Expand WEC’s outreach by promoting WEC materials to members’ own stakeholders
Be a hub to gather best practices from membership that WEC can use to back up its messages

Besides involvement on the overall communications strategy, the Network could also be involved in ad-hoc projects that may arise.

Digitalisation Taskforce

The Digitalisation Taskforce is to develop and recommend strategies to inform and educate WEC members on the impact of new technologies that will impact the HR services industry. Priority topics that have been identified so far are Artificial Intelligence, Blockchains and Platform Work. CyberSecurity might be another topic to be added.

Data Privacy Taskforce

The Data Privacy Taskforce discusses how privacy, the protection of personal data and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be implemented in the employment industry across the world. It shares national best-practices and identifies the need for collective advocacy intervention or cross-border standard-setting.