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"This report aims at describing and interpreting how occupational welfare (OW) schemes, especially supplementary pension schemes (SPS) and temporary unemployment (TU) schemes are developing in Belgium and what has been and still is the role of various actors, focusing mainly on social partners and the State. The report shows that the debate on OW has emerged recently in Belgium, mainly focused on supplementary pensions and health insurance provisions. The issue of SPS is a political and financial one. Over the past decade, the government has encouraged employers to introduce pension schemes for their workers in response to the ageing population and the expected difficulties in financing state pensions in the future. Regarding unemployment protection, the TU scheme is a particular form of general statutory unemployment insurance protection. It also has features related to occupational welfare and is limited to workers employed in companies initiating a specific procedure to access the TU scheme. It is not an essential issue in Belgian social dialogue. The results are based on research and reports published since 2003, available administrative and statistical data, and documents made public by the social partners. Relevant collective agreements in the retail and automotive sectors were analysed and interviews with trade unionists carried out."

"La succession de deux importantes crises économiques depuis 2007 a contribué à aggraver la précarité et la pauvreté au sein de l'Union européenne. Tant l'Union européenne que ses États membres s'accordent sur ce constat, tout comme ils s'accordent pour considérer que les systèmes de revenu minimum constituent un outil important pour lutter contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale en garantissant la sécurité des personnes tout en jouant un rôle pertinent dans la redistribution des richesses et la garantie de la solidarité et de la justice sociale."

"The two successive major economic crises since 2007 have contributed to a worsening of poverty and insecurity within the European Union. Both the European Union and its Member States agree that this is the case, just as they agree that minimum income schemes are an important tool for combating poverty and social exclusion, providing a safety net for people whilst playing a relevant role in redistributing wealth and ensuring solidarity and social justice. "

"This is a study of a complex but important concept, working poverty (or in-work poverty), involving individuals both as workers and members of households. It is caused by low pay, but also weak labour force attachment and high needs. The most recently available version of the household survey, EU-SILC, is analyzed to explain factors behind working poverty in different European countries. There has been a growth of jobs in Europe in the last fifteen years, but this has not decreased poverty because of a relative expansion of low quality jobs. Now economic crisis threatens to increase poverty further. But there is quite a diversity of situations within the EU which this book explores. It includes discussion of working poverty in relation to gender, to migration, and policies like tax-credits. Case studies of UK, France, Spain, Sweden and Poland are included and these countries are given special attention in most of the chapters."