A turning point: Why the CJEU’s minimum wages ruling matters
By upholding the Minimum Wages Directive, the CJEU has set a clear signal: fair wages and strong collective bargaining are central to Europe’s social future. The judgment empowers governments to lift wage floors and tackle in-work poverty with renewed confidence.
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Mental health in times of COVID-19 – how to best address it?
We herewith invite you to a CESI@home meeting on Friday March 26th 2020 from 2.00pm-3.30pm
CESI Talks – The EU and workers with Monika Kiss, Policy Analyst at the European Parliament
Call for tender “Digitalising public services: Making it work for citizens, business and workers”
CESI Talks – The EU and workers in times of Covid19 with Radan Kanev, Member of the European Parliament (EPP, BG)
International Women’s Day: Kirsten Lühmann calls for EU measures on pay transparency and violence against women
CESI welcomes this week’s social proposals of the European Commission
This week, the European Commission put flesh to its employment, social affairs and gender equality agenda, submitting proposals to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights, to reduce gender pay gaps, to improve on the rights and opportunites of the disabled, to strengthen effective active support to employment, and to prolong the ‘escape clause’ of the Stability and Growth Pact.
CESI@home on proper and transparent decision-making in the field of EU defence policy
CESI’s European Defence Round-Table (EDRT), hosted by MEP Lukas Mandl, met again on the 3rd of March 2021 for the second time to exchange on the current state of the European Defence Union (EDU) during COVID19.
DiWork – Digitalising public services: Making it work for citizens, business and workers
‘Seize’ the European Pillar of Social Rights! | Editorial of the Secretary-General Klaus Heeger
CESI Talks – EU und Arbeitnehmer in Zeiten von Covid19 mit Damian Boeselager, MEP (Greens/EFA in the European Parliament, DE)
Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat eindrucksvoll (und schmerzhaft) gezeigt, wie entscheidend und unverzichtbar öffentliche Dienste sind und wie dringend ihre weitere Verbesserung durch eine stärkere europäische Präsenz notwendig ist.
European Day for a Work-Free Sunday: Put synchronised free time back on the agenda
Upcoming on March 17: CESI@noon on ‘Mobile working in a post-pandemic world of work
Multi-sectoral project on “the role of social partners in preventing third-party violence and harassment at work”
CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger: Supportive action by the EU to reduce VAT gaps must involve tax administration personnel
CESI Talks – The EU and workers in times of Covid19 with Dimitrios Papadimoulis, European Parliament Vice-President
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.
CESI urges EC to make 3rd party violence against public sector personnel a priority
As the European Commission consults on possible priorities for the next EU strategic framework on health and safety at work for the years 2021-2027, CESI calls to make the challenge of increasing third party violence against officials and public sector employees a particular area of action for the EU and the Member States during the next years.
CESI@home meeting addresses the future of healthcare: Tackling the understaffing in the health sector
Precarious work in Ireland’s public sector
Government of Ireland's PhD scholar, Ashling Seely, writes this piece within the framework of CESI's EU co-funded project "Precarious work: empowering trade unions to address new challenges".
#NoPrecariousWork - Precarious work: empowering trade unions to address new challenges
On 19th of February 2021 the final conference of CESI’s EU co-funded project “Precarious work: empowering trade unions to address new challenges” took place online. While the event was moderated by Pierre Baussand, Chief of Eurofound’s Brussels Liaison Office, Joost Korte, Director-General DG EMPL, and Klaus Heeger, Secretary-General of the CESI, delivered the keynote addresses.
The future of the European Defence Union in the context of multiple crisis: What are the new coordinates post Covid 19?
CESI Talks – EU und Arbeitnehmer in Zeiten von Covid19 mit Dennis Radtke, Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments (EVP, DE)
Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat eindrucksvoll (und schmerzhaft) gezeigt, wie entscheidend und unverzichtbar öffentliche Dienste sind und wie dringend ihre weitere Verbesserung durch eine stärkere europäische Präsenz notwendig ist.
CESI Webinar – EU directives on precarious work: what are the loopholes? – Sophie Robin-Olivier
CESI Talks – L’UE e i lavoratori al tempo del Covid19 con Brando Benifei, Deputato al Parlamento europeo (S&D, IT)
#CESItalks è una serie di discussioni con eurodeputati e funzionari/esperti del PE sulle priorità politiche e legislative del Parlamento Europeo in materia di occupazione, ambiente e trasformazione digitale.
Closing conference “Precarious work: empowering trade unions to address new challenges
CESI Talks – EU und Arbeitnehmer in Zeiten von Covid19 mit Lukas Mandl, Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments (EVP, AT)
Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat eindrucksvoll (und schmerzhaft) gezeigt, wie entscheidend und unverzichtbar öffentliche Dienste sind und wie dringend ihre weitere Verbesserung durch eine stärkere europäische Präsenz notwendig ist.
European Policy Centre (EPC) study makes the case for greater support of public services and its personnel
The European Policy Centre (EPC) has published a new study on ‘Well-performing public services for a fair and resilient European society’. Bringing forward evidence from the areas of administration, healthcare, education and public order and safety, the study showcases the importance of reinforced support and investments in public services and its personnel – needed urgently already before the Covid pandemic and even more so now as the socio-economic fallout of the Corona crisis unfolds.
CESI Talks – L’UE e i lavoratori al tempo del Covid19 con Gianluca Sgueo, analista politico al Parlamento europeo
La pandemia di Covid-19 ha dimostrato in modo impressionante (e doloroso) quanto siano decisivi ed essenziali i servizi pubblici e quanto sia urgente migliorarli ulteriormente attraverso una dimensione europea più forte.
Changing forms of precarious work and trade union responses in the post- Covid-19 times, Marta Kahancova
CESI Talks – The EU and workers in times of Covid19 with Alex Agius Saliba, MEP (S&D, MT)
CESI on collective bargaining for the self-employed
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.
After the Congress in December: CESI Presidium constitutes CESI’s work structures for 2021-2024
CESI calls on EC to table proposal for directive on right to be disconnected
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.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021
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.
CESI@home on “EU responses to counter-terrorism: Are we tackling the challenges?”
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.
Financial self-reliance of women in the care sector in the Netherlands
CESI's member organisation CNV Connectief shares its knowledge and policy solutions to improve the financial independence of women in the care sector.
Reducing precarious work: some lessons from the Covid pandemic, Prof Jill Rubery
Prof Jill Rubery, Director of the Work and Equalities Institute of the University of Manchester, writes this article within the framework of the EU funded project "Precarious work: empowering trade unions to address new challenges".
