Quality Jobs Roadmap: let’s get the discussion right |
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| At yesterday’s high-level exchange with European Commission Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu, our Deputy Director General, Thérèse de Liedekerke, joined fellow social partners to discuss the future EU’s Quality Jobs Roadmap. |
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| ”For BusinessEurope, it starts with facilitating innovation and driving productivity growth by fostering a competitive business environment that retains companies and attracts new industries. To create quality jobs, employers need to secure the competitiveness of their company”, she underlined. De Liedekerke also presented the main messages of our newly published policy orientation note ”Quality jobs: let’s get the discussion right!”. Job quality is a complex concept and the roadmap has to be about putting in place the conditions that will allow companies to create quality jobs in Europe. |
It cannot be about trying to define “quality jobs” at EU level. One of the key points is the importance of a stable and predictable legal and economic environment with simple rules. Digitalisation can reduce administrative burdens and make compliance easier. Finally, social dialogue has a key role to play in helping to create the conditions for quality job creation and social partners must be free to decide when, how, on which topics and at what level to negotiate.
You can read our full set of proposals for the Quality Jobs Roadmap here. |
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EFNI Spring: Future of work, work of the future |
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| On 15–16 April, our member the Polish Confederation Lewiatan hosted a special edition of the European Forum for New Ideas (EFNI) in Warsaw, focusing on the priorities of Poland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union. Our Director for Social Affairs, Maxime Cerutti, joined the roundtable “Dialogue as an effective change management tool”. He underlined the importance of trust between social partners as a foundation for restoring competitiveness and managing transitions effectively. Cerutti stressed that timely restructuring decisions – supported by strong employment, skills and social policies – are key to keeping companies viable, protecting jobs and unlocking new opportunities. He also underlined the importance of equipping workers with future-ready skills to ensure that change benefits everyone. |
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“If we can't restore growth, then all the ambitions in the green, digital, and especially the geopolitical areas will be purely academic. Europe must improve its negotiating position by having a strong economic foundation”. |
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