Social Agenda Magazine | Number 55 (August 2019)

Extending the safety net

Summary:

Closing the gaps and making sure that all people at work can effectively enjoy the rights they are entitled to, whatever their status, is what Social Agenda 55 is all about. This involves creating new rights, as is the case with the new, groundbreaking work-life balance Directive and the one on working conditions transparency and predictability.

This issue also covers the proposed Recommendation on access to social protection for all (which is still going through the EU decision-making process), the launch of a debate on more efficient law making in social policy, the creation of the European Labour Agency and the International Labour Organisation’s centenary initiative on the future of work.

Contents:

• Social policy
  • More efficient EU decision-making
• Cross-border labour mobility
  • A one-stop shop called ELA
• International
  • A human-centred global future
• Special feature
  • Extending the safety net
  • Gender equality breakthrough
  • New rights for many more workers
  • Social protection for all
• Testimonials
  • Work-life balance in Lithuania and Malta
• Other voices
  • Work-life balance, Part 2 - Liz Gosme, Director, COFACE Families Europe
• Interview
  • At the interface of policy making - Raquel Lucas, head of the Coordination unit, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

• Primary Source

• Alternative Source