EU: Parliament’s Employment Committee votes to make access to public procurement conditional on compliance with collective bargaining

On 13 May, MEPs in the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs overwhelmingly approved an opinion on a draft report on public procurement. Although the report, which was drawn up by the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, makes no mention of this, they called for public procurement rules to support the creation of quality jobs and promote collective bargaining and respect for workers’ rights. Although public procurement has already had to...