Implementation (Principle 5)
Description
a) What Member States and Social Partners can do
Each Member State may define the balance between security and flexibility on its labour market differently. To give effect to the provisions of the Pillar, Member States are nevertheless invited to ensure that their employment and social rules are adapted to the emergence of new forms of work, in addition to transposing and enforcing rules adopted at Union level.
At Union level, social partners are to be consulted in accordance with Article 154 TFEU on possible initiatives envisaged under Article 153 TFEU and may sign agreements which can be implemented at Union level in accordance with Article 155 TFEU upon their request. Social partners may also collect and exchange good practices across the Union. At national level, social partners may support the implementation of this Principle via collective bargaining and through their involvement in the design and implementation of relevant policies.
b) Recent and ongoing initiatives at EU level
Together with the European Pillar of Social Rights, the Commission is launching a first-stage consultation of the social partners on the revision of Directive 91/533/EEC (the Written Statement Directive).(48) As part of this consultation, the social partners will be consulted on whether to amend the Directive more substantially with a view to introducing minimum standards applicable to every employment relationship and prohibiting abuse.
The Commission is also presenting together with the European Pillar of Social Rights a first-stage consultation of the social partners on an initiative concerning "Access to Social Protection"(49), in order to address varying access to social protection by workers in standard employment and people employed on non-standard contracts and in various forms of self-employment. The consultation equally addresses the access to employment services and training and the transferabililty of social protection and training entitlements, in view of facilitating occupational mobility.
In 2017, the Commission will complete a REFIT evaluation of the Directives which give effect to the Social Partner Framework Agreements on fixed-term and part-time work.
Eurofound, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, one of the EU's decentralised agencies, is supporting the work of the Commission, Member States and social partners on working conditions and sustainable work, industrial relations, monitoring structural change and managing restructuring, focusing as well on opportunities and challenges in the digital age.
Each Member State may define the balance between security and flexibility on its labour market differently. To give effect to the provisions of the Pillar, Member States are nevertheless invited to ensure that their employment and social rules are adapted to the emergence of new forms of work, in addition to transposing and enforcing rules adopted at Union level.
At Union level, social partners are to be consulted in accordance with Article 154 TFEU on possible initiatives envisaged under Article 153 TFEU and may sign agreements which can be implemented at Union level in accordance with Article 155 TFEU upon their request. Social partners may also collect and exchange good practices across the Union. At national level, social partners may support the implementation of this Principle via collective bargaining and through their involvement in the design and implementation of relevant policies.
b) Recent and ongoing initiatives at EU level
Together with the European Pillar of Social Rights, the Commission is launching a first-stage consultation of the social partners on the revision of Directive 91/533/EEC (the Written Statement Directive).(48) As part of this consultation, the social partners will be consulted on whether to amend the Directive more substantially with a view to introducing minimum standards applicable to every employment relationship and prohibiting abuse.
The Commission is also presenting together with the European Pillar of Social Rights a first-stage consultation of the social partners on an initiative concerning "Access to Social Protection"(49), in order to address varying access to social protection by workers in standard employment and people employed on non-standard contracts and in various forms of self-employment. The consultation equally addresses the access to employment services and training and the transferabililty of social protection and training entitlements, in view of facilitating occupational mobility.
In 2017, the Commission will complete a REFIT evaluation of the Directives which give effect to the Social Partner Framework Agreements on fixed-term and part-time work.
Eurofound, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, one of the EU's decentralised agencies, is supporting the work of the Commission, Member States and social partners on working conditions and sustainable work, industrial relations, monitoring structural change and managing restructuring, focusing as well on opportunities and challenges in the digital age.
Importance
High
Links
(48) C(2017) 2611.
(49) C(2017) 2610.
(49) C(2017) 2610.