How has Covid-19 been affecting precarious work and trade unions? How to face its challenges? Read all about it in this article written by Marta Kahancova, Central European Labour Studies Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia, for the #noprecariouswork project.
The Covid-19 pandemic has impressively (and painfully) demonstrated how decisive and essential public services are and how urgently their further improvement through a stronger European dimension is needed.
Following the Congress in December last year, CESI’s Presidium met today to constitute CESI’s horizontal commissions and sectoral expert commissions – the members’ committees that advise and inform CESI’s European-level advocacy work. After a meeting of CESI’s Programme Commission yesterday on possible work priorities for 2021, CESI is now ready to further pursue and implement its annual activity programme for the year ahead.
CESI published a new position on the conciliation of EU competition law with the right to collective bargaining for the self-employed. In the position, which is part of a response to a consultation which the European Commission is currently undertaking, CESI calls on the European Commission clarify how those in precarious solo-employment may benefit from a right to collective bargaining, and hence higher and adequate wages, without interfering with EU competition law, which currently may forbid this right on the grounds that this would constitute an illegal cartel-forming.
Today, CESI kicked off the year with a meeting of its Programme Commission to discuss the organisation’s main horizontal and sectoral work priorities and key activities for the year ahead.
Written within the framework of the project “Precarious work: empowering trade unions to address new challenges”, Ines Wagner, Institute of Social Research in Oslo, Norway, differentiates in this piece access to social security protection in the different welfare systems in Europe.
On January 21st, the European Parliament published a legislative initiative report, urging the European Commission to table a legislative proposal on a right to disconnect.
On January 27th, people around the world pay their respect to the victims of Holocaust and come together to say no to racism, anti-semitism and hate.
As the year 2020 saw, yet again, a series terrorist attacks, on January 22 a CESI@home online event edition addressed concerns about the security of European citizens and the place of police personnel in safeguaring security.
