Books
Equal pay and gender mainstreaming in the European Employment Strategy
The aims of this book are to discuss and identify the main obstacles to progress in implementing policies to tackle pay gaps, to assess whether gender mainstreaming is an appropriate means of removing these obstacles, as well as to seek to establish the extent to which policy developments designed to achieve equal pay are (or not) the result of the European employment strategy.
Social pacts in Europe - new dynamics
In the economic context of "post-EMU", a new balance needs to be struck. Now that the demands to "join Europe", in other words to fulfil the Maastricht criteria, and the pressure deriving from high unemployment have eased considerably new prospects for social pacts may be opening up in Europe.
Social pacts in Europe
This book contains the main presentations to two workshops organised by the ETUI and the Observatoire Social Européen (OSE) in Brussels.
Focus on European Social Policy: countering Europessimism
This book presents in its first chapter a summary of legislative developments since 1957/58: the amendments to the treaties with reference to the Single European Act, the EU Charter on Fundamental Social Rights, the Social Protocol; but also examples of practical progress such as European Works Councils, the coordination of employment policies and the convergence strategy for social protection.
Manifesto Social Europe
This book focuses on three questions: "Why is there a need for Social Europe"?, "What does Social Europe do"? and "How is Social Europe to be implemented"?
Social developments in the European Union 2001
This third edition of the annual report on European Social Policy looks at two major new policy areas initiated in 2001: on the one hand, the developments concerning the quality of employment, in the broad sense, i.e. encompassing legislative initiatives, social dialogue and the European employment strategy; on the other, the application to new European fields of action of the open method of coordination.
Active strategies for older workers
This book sets out to describe how, in nine EU countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands), social partners and governments have been successful in increasing the employment rates of older workers, or have failed to do so. Different paths have been tried out in different countries, some with more success than others. The book highlights good and bad practices in the field of employment, training, social protection and taxation policies. Current policies are evaluated and proposals are made for further successful action. Amongst major reforms discussed, the book refers to the development of systems of partial, phased, progressive or flexible retirement.
A lifelong strategy for active ageing
This book, the second in a series, discusses a comprehensive set of measures aimed at increasing the employment rate of older workers. The book's six chapters, and smaller sections of comments, deal with the incentives/disincentives debate, employment and training policies in favour of older workers, the issues of work organisation and reorganisation of working time, the availability of social infrastructures and, last but not least, the question of how to change the attitudes of employers, workers and trade unions with a view to keeping older workers in employment.
Social developments in the European Union 2000
This second edition of Social developments in the European Union focuses on four important developments in the European social policy field in 2000.
Social developments in the European Union 2002
Social policy issues and, hence, the definition of a European socio-economic model have been at the heart of political debate ever since the Lisbon summit (2000). Tension is unavoidable: a power struggle between different political models, trends and options is underway ?behind the scenes? in Europe. Discussion revolves around content, of course: what form of employment policy can be pursued jointly, how should the issue of pensions be resolved, what approach should be taken to healthcare or public services, and how can employment and economic policy be better integrated?
