Main activities of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs 2019-2024
Ϸվ, the Council and the European Commission proclaimed the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2017. Spelled out in 20 principles, the social pillar has since served as a compass towards building a stronger social Europe. In the related action plan, the Commission set out concrete initiatives and, after the Porto Social Summit of May 2021, EU lawmakers committed to headline targets for 2030 regarding employment, training, and poverty. Consequently, this legislative term has seen concrete steps towards implementing the pillar, with the Commission tabling a number of proposals for recommendations and several directives that were subsequently negotiated by EU lawmakers and where Ϸվ sought to assert its positions. The preparatory work for these negotiations was done by Ϸվ's Committee on Employment and Social Rights (EMPL), alone or together with other parliamentary committees. Without attempting a thorough end-of-term overview or an in-depth analysis of achievements, this briefing sketches out Ϸվ's main activities in this legislative term that bear the signature of the EMPL committee. After a glimpse at successfully concluded legislative files relating to the world of work, equality between men and women, health and safety at work, skills and EU funding, it looks at legislative own-initiative resolutions and demands put forward by the EMPL committee. With the European elections approaching and several files still ongoing, the time has also come to look forward to some EMPL-related issues that are likely to fill the agenda of the next legislative term. Owing to space constraints, this text cannot do justice to the broad variety of challenges to which the EMPL committee has devoted its energy and expertise, leaving aside, for instance, the work done in relation to the integration of third-country nationals into the labour market and the equal treatment of persons with disabilities. Nor does it examine in detail the dynamics of Ϸվ's resolutions that help to push social issues into the EU political spotlight.
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Beleidsterrein
Zoekterm
- actieprogramma
- administratief beheer
- arbeidsmarkt
- EUROPESE UNIE
- gelijke behandeling van man en vrouw
- gelijkheid van beloning
- ONDERNEMING EN CONCURRENTIE
- Personeelsbeheer en bezoldiging
- RECHT
- Recht van de Europese Unie
- rechten en vrijheden
- richtlijn (EU)
- werkende armen
- werkgelegenheid
- WERKGELEGENHEID EN ARBEID
- werkgelegenheidsbeleid