On 13 – 14 June the Executive Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation accepted its response to the first stage consultation of the EU social partners on addressing the challenges of access to social protection for people in a-typical forms of employment that was launched by the European Commission in April as part of its project for a European Pillar of Social Rights (c.f. article No. 10177).
The ETUC’s response officially signed off by its Executive Committee in the week of 12 June welcomes the initiative but underlines that “It must be clear that reforming welfare systems to make them fairer and more inclusive cannot in fact be separated from a comprehensive approach, which must have the issue of ‘quality work’ at its core,” and points to the fact that beyond developing new forms of employment, the deterioration in the overall quality of employment and in worse wage policies also “have disastrous repercussions on social protection adequacy, coverage and sustainability.”
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