A Historic Union Vote Gets Underway at Amazon. Why the Covid economic crisis has hit poorer nations less deeply than feared. Coronavirus and the European job market: where the pandemic hit the hardest in spring 2020. Online job advertisements make it possible to identify and analyse labour market developments more frequently, faster, and in more detail than conventional sources, such as vacancy surveys.
This decline in job advertisements appears even more dramatic considering that some might have remained online longer than usual after social distancing measures and lockdowns came into effect, as can be seen in the V-shaped time trend (Figure 1). At its start, many employers viewed the pandemic as a temporary disruption and remained positive about longer-term prospects. At the peak of the pandemic in April, online job ads fell by almost 60% compared to one year earlier. 8th IMF Statistical Forum: Measuring the Economics of a Pandemic. Given the travel restrictions related to COVID-19, we have decided that the IMF 8th Statistical Forum will be virtual this year.
Although the conference will be virtual, we hope to continue to offer lively debates, interactions, and other networking opportunities. The organizing committee is equally committed to preparing a successful forum. The paper submissions have been very competitive. Based on the already announced preliminary program and the final selection of papers, a draft agenda will be published by mid-September, taking into account the virtual format. G20 summit, 21-22 November 2020. At a virtual summit hosted by Saudi Arabia, the G20 leaders expressed their strong commitment to coordinated global action, solidarity, and multilateral cooperation.
They committed to working together to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, restore growth and jobs, and build a more inclusive, sustainable and resilient future. Charles Michel, President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, represented the EU at the two-day event. At the end of the summit, the G20 leaders adopted a declaration: G20 Summit. Mariana Mazzucato on New Economic Approaches. Transport and logisitics workers face new challenges and adapt new trade union strategies on JSTOR. International Union Rights is the journal of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, an international organisation founded in 1987 that brings together a global network of expertise on international law, trade union rights, human rights, and industrial relations in order to defend, extend, and raise awareness of trade union rights and their violations worldwide.
IUR focuses on labour law and the rights to form and join trade unions and carries articles dealing with all aspects of the right to carry out trade union activities, as well as all restrictions and impediments to those rights. IUR aims at increasing international awareness and understanding of key issues around the general theme of trade union rights, often with an emphasis on legal issues, and with a strong regard for covering geographic diversity. Editorial: Impacts of Covid-19 on Work and the Challenge for Union Rights on JSTOR. International Union Rights is the journal of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, an international organisation founded in 1987 that brings together a global network of expertise on international law, trade union rights, human rights, and industrial relations in order to defend, extend, and raise awareness of trade union rights and their violations worldwide.
IUR focuses on labour law and the rights to form and join trade unions and carries articles dealing with all aspects of the right to carry out trade union activities, as well as all restrictions and impediments to those rights. IUR aims at increasing international awareness and understanding of key issues around the general theme of trade union rights, often with an emphasis on legal issues, and with a strong regard for covering geographic diversity. Exiting from Lockdowns: Early Evidence from Reopenings in Europe. Author/Editor: Jeffrey R.
Franks ; Bertrand Gruss ; Carlos Mulas-Granados ; Manasa Patnam ; Sebastian Weber Publication Date: October 21, 2020 Electronic Access: Free Download. France : an agreement on the transformation of technical engineering and tertiary skills at Renault, which also provides for 2,500 voluntary departures - Planet Labor. France : an agreement on the transformation of technical engineering and tertiary skills at Renault, which also provides for 2,500 voluntary departures With more than 50% trade union representation, the signature of the CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO trade unions validates Renault’s agreement on workforce reduction and skills transformation in the automaker’s support and engineering functions.
Documents : The European recovery is up in the air — again. 10/11/2020. OECD. Launch Meeting - Zoom. Can Surveillance AI Make the Workplace Safe? 1.
S. Bond, “Apple and Google Build Smartphone Tool to Track COVID-19,” NPR, April 10, 2020, www.npr.org. 2. NEW: Rethinking the 2020s. This report contains insights from Shell’s new Scenarios Sketch “Rethinking the 2020s”.
The New Lens Scenarios and Scenario Sketches are a part of an ongoing process used in Shell for almost 50 years to challenge executives’ perspectives on the future business environment. Scenarios don’t describe what will happen, or what should happen, rather they explore what could happen. We base them on plausible assumptions and quantification, and they are designed to stretch management’s thinking and even to consider events that may only be remotely possible. Las condiciones del rescate de Air Europa complican su compra por Iberia. El Gobierno aprobó ayer el rescate de Air Europa con la inyección de 475 millones de euros.
World Economic Outlook, October 2020: A Long and Difficult Ascent. Cepcovid 19 010. "This game is a good way to raise awareness among the personnel and residents about the risks associated with not respecting hygiene rules." What if we fought the coronavirus with a game? How? Well, by launching an escape game, designed to better integrate infection barriers gestures.
This project, from the Centre Hospitalier EpiCURA, has been specially developed for personnel in care homes. It has received financial support from the Fund for Supportive Care, created by the King Baudouin Foundation at the height of the health crisis. COVID-19 has been a real ordeal for the residents of care homes, isolated from family and friends. Infection barriers are not always spontaneous Dominique Gainvorste manages the nursing department of the Centre Hospitalier EpiCURA, which has over 800 beds across its three sites in the Hainaut region. Booking.com hekelt Europees plan hardere aanpak big tech. Every minority group in the United Kingdom was increasing labor-force participation prepandemic. Revisiting agile teams after an abrupt shift to remote. As organizations adapt to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, their agile teams can be a real source of competitive advantage. Such teams are typically well suited to periods of disruption, given their ability to adapt to fast-changing business priorities, disruptive technology, and digitization.
But the abrupt shift to remote working in response to the coronavirus has challenged the typical approach to managing agile teams. Traditionally, such teams thrive when team members are co-located, with close-knit groups all working in the same place. Co-location allows frequent in-person contact, quickly builds trust, simplifies problem solving, encourages instant communication, and enables fast-paced decision making. The journey to agile: How companies can become faster, more productive, and more responsive. In this episode of the McKinsey Podcast, Simon London speaks with McKinsey senior partners Sherina Ebrahim and Shail Thaker on how companies can use agile practices to transform their organizations. An edited version of their conversation follows.
Diane Brady: Hello, and welcome to the McKinsey Podcast. I’m Diane Brady. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, agility was a hot topic. Some companies came into the crisis with agile practices, and let’s just say that others have had agility thrust upon them. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung - Brussels European Office - High hopes, low expectations – Brussels’ perspective on the future of Europe after COVID-19. The COVID-19 crisis has sent shockwaves through societies and economies, altering the parameters of politics in Europe and beyond.
For Brussels-based stakeholders, prepandemic topics like migration, the rule of law or Brexit still matter. However, they have been overtaken by the more immediate need to identify effective reactions to the global health crisis and its multiple economic, societal and political consequences. Sweden’s hands-off approach to local lockdown. UPPSALA, Sweden — Welcome to local lockdown, Swedish style. Uppsala, a city of 230,000 people about an hour’s drive north of Stockholm, on Tuesday became the first place in Sweden to announce tougher localized guidance aimed at slowing a spike in cases of COVID-19, which authorities say has put hospitals there under pressure. Residents were told to avoid public transport and not to socialize with anyone they don’t live with. On Thursday, signs stuck to bus doors told passengers to board “only if they had to.”
Posters on the sides of rubbish bins said: “The danger is not over.” While this city is hardly unique in announcing new rules this week — a similar tightening of restrictions has occurred across Europe, from Manchester to Brussels to Prague — what makes Uppsala’s approach different is that it is almost wholly voluntary. In Uppsala, there are no officials checking why people are using public transport. Sweden’s national approach this spring received both plaudits and condemnation. New Globalization. The pandemic has ushered in new trade restrictions and calls for new measures to cut dependency on imports.
‘Be sustainable or be irrelevant’: Green week begins with call for food revolution. Gig economy in Spain: Spain’s Labor Inspectorate forces Amazon to give 4,000 false freelancers work contracts. Spain’s Labor Inspectorate has forced Amazon to give contracts to 4,056 delivery drivers that the online retail giant had working in Madrid and Barcelona as false freelancers, according to sources familiar with the investigation and from the UGT labor union. The Recovery Needs Development Aid by Kevin Rudd. Although it may be tempting for governments to use the current crisis as an excuse to cut foreign development spending, they should be doing exactly the opposite. The more support that developing and emerging economies have to weather the storm, the faster the global recovery will be.
De (financiële) impact van corona op uw job. Er zijn geen indicaties dat kantoren broeihaarden zijn van coronabesmettingen. Maar door met z’n allen meer thuis te werken vermijden we overvolle treinen, bussen en metro’s met pendelaars die van en naar het werk reizen. Wat betekent meer thuiswerken financieel voor u? En wat als u niet kunt thuiswerken? New US jobless claims rise to almost 900,000. Roadmap toward a common framework for measuring the digital economy. Van Overtveldt letter to Clauss Oct 13. Glo core post covid eme white paper. COVID-19 is increasing multiple kinds of inequality. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose - UCL – University College London. Regulating uncertainty: variable work schedules and zero-hour work in EU employment policy.
This policy brief considers what is the scope for addressing the challenges linked to irregular work schedules in EU social and employment policy. It first describes EU competence in the areas of work and employment conditions in order to assess what the EU institutions can de jure do to address irregular work schedules. It then evaluates what the EU can de facto do based on the current direction and agenda of its employment policy. France: fathers to be entitled to 28 days paternity leave - Planet Labor. Work for Others, not Yourself: Globalization, Protectionism and Europe’s Quest for Strategic Autonomy.
Protectionism and mercantilism are yet again at the centre of global economic policy. “America First” is the guiding ethos in a good part of US international economic policy. Beijing is taking a larger stake in China’s economy and hand out privileges to domestic firms. Documents : Consult, avoid, compensate: redundancy in the Covid crisis. The Debt Pandemic – IMF F&D. Ian Goldin on Rethinking Global Resilience – IMF F&D. Joining forces across the EU to tackle undeclared work - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion. #EU4FairWork: highlights from the Week of Action - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion. Publications catalogue - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion. Employment and Social Developments in Europe review: why social fairness and solidarity are more important than ever - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion.
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Ef20059en. EU governments, parliament edge closer to deal on recovery plan. KK0120356ENN. Vestager: Gatekeeper platforms shouldn’t control Europe’s online marketplaces. Le Maire hits out at Apple’s market dominance in EU. Great Britain: PM Boris Johnson urges workers to recommence remote working - Planet Labor. Beyond Growth: Towards a New Economic Approach. The labor market doesn’t have a ‘skills gap’—it has an opportunity gap. #globalgreendeals - Programm. Rethinking EU institutions’ rules of procedure after COVID-19 - Egmont Institute. Reforming the World Trade Organization: Prospects for Transatlantic Cooperation and the Global Trade System.
Salary Abuses Facing Migrant Workers Ahead of Qatar’s FIFA World Cup 2022. Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. The concept of ‘worker’ in EU law: status quo and potential for change. Ensuring fair short-time work - a European overview. Essential but unprotected: highly mobile workers in the EU during the Covid-19 pandemic. Google is offering its teams a three-day weekend so they can recover fully - Planet Labor.
EU: European Trade Union Confederation preparing several actions before year-end to defend and guarantee the respect of workers' information and consultation rights - Planet Labor. A radical prescription to make work fit for the future. COVID-19: BACK TO THE WORKPLACE - Adapting workplaces and protecting workers - Safety and health at work. Reinventing business models in a pandemic: Necessity is the mother of invention. Reinventing business models in a pandemic: Necessity is the mother of invention. Future of Manufacturing Report. Lagos's poor lament Covid fallout: 'we don't see the virus, we see suffering'
Covid-19 to send almost all G20 countries into a recession - Economist Intelligence Unit. Labour market outlook western europe. Employment Outlook 2019 Highlight EN. : EU leaders reach recovery deal after marathon summit. 'The future of the European project is at stake': EU in crosshairs of coronavirus pandemic. The existential threat to small business from the coronavirus. How Covid-19 will change the world. MGI The future of work in Europe discussion paper.