EU: non-binding measures to provide social protection access to all irrespective of employment status

The European Commission continues to implement its European Social Rights Pillar that aims to ensure the upward convergence of social protection. On 13 March the European Commission presented a ‘social justice package’ that revolves around a legislative proposal aimed at establishing a European Labour Authority (c.f. article No.10601), as well as an initiative to ensure access for all workers and self-employed to social protection.
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The European Commission remarked that currently almost 40% of people employed are either in an atypical employment situation – meaning that they are not working under a full-time, open-ended contract – or self-employed ,and that as a result, it was making a recommendation to the Member States encouraging them to adapt their own social protection systems. The non-binding proposition, that still needs the backing of the EU Council of Ministers, will only encourage Member States to pursue the reco

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