Benchmarking working Europe 2015
European Trade Union Institute, Brussels ; European Trade Union Confederation, Brussels
ETUI - Brussels
2015
78 p.
collective bargaining ; comparison ; economic recession ; economic recovery ; labour law ; labour market ; macroeconomics ; occupational safety and health ; social policy ; social protection ; statistics ; trade union document ; workers participation
Business economics
English
Bibliogr.
978-2-87452-334-2
03.04-16138
" Published every year, the report analyses the state of working Europe explaining with the aid of statistics and graphs the main trends in terms of Europe's macro-economic situation, its labour market development, the situation of wages and collective bargaining, and worker participation.
The focus of this year's Benchmarking report is on the lessons learned – or not learned – from eight years of economic crisis and austerity policy. The findings point to policy failures and to the need to redefine alternatives in order to get Europe back on a sustainable growth path. The deterioration of the labour market and social situation in the EU, along with the appointment of a new Commission last autumn, have led to some renewed policy initiatives that seek to restore growth as a means of addressing the situation. The most notable of these initiatives is the Annual Growth Survey with its three pillars: the Investment Plan, fiscal responsibility and structural reforms. "
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