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06//09/2010
The development of qualifications is the challenge facing tomorrow’s labour market
In 2008, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) backed the European Commission’s ‘New qualifications, new jobs’ initiative, designed to anticipate and match the needs of the labour market with the needs for professional qualifications. At a conference organised by the ETUC on 2 and 3 September, entitled ‘A trade union version of the New Qualifications, New Jobs initiative’, the point was reiterated that if this initiative is to succeed, there is a need for the proposals for ways out of the crisis to be linked in with the structural transformations of living and production conditions.
01//09/2010
European Works Councils are vital to sound corporate governance
Today’s crisis demonstrates that European Works Councils (EWC) are more necessary than ever for sound corporate governance, in particular to exercise a right of scrutiny over corporate management practices and to prevent abuse.
19//08/2010
ETUC – Brian Bercusson Award: Submit your research project on European Labour Law
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has instituted an award in order to honour the outstanding and most dynamic scientific work and its high relevance for the European trade union movement of the late Labour Law Professor Brian Bercusson: the ETUC – Brian Bercusson Award. With this Award, the ETUC and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) support academic research that deepen understanding of and promote transnational workers’ rights in Europe. The focus on European Labour Law shall raise awareness about new scientific research in academia as well as among practitioners in the European Union in order to encourage scientific, legal and political actions towards the further development, full recognition and better implementation of trade union- and workers’ rights.’
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