Digitalisation is transforming business landscapes and the world of work, and redefining the boundaries of production, consumption and distribution. This has created tremendous opportunities, as new products, processes and techniques have emerged, but has also created threats, as new ways of...

Digitalisation is transforming business landscapes and the world of work, and redefining the boundaries of production, consumption and distribution. This has created tremendous opportunities, as new products, processes and techniques have emerged, but has also created threats, as new ways of...

Collective bargaining is a key element of labour relations, as well as a fundamental part of democracy and an essential piece of the European Social Model. Recently, the important role of social dialogue and collective bargaining has been rediscovered at the EU level. The Directive on Adequate...

Collective bargaining is a key element of labour relations, as well as a fundamental part of democracy and an essential piece of the European Social Model. Recently, the important role of social dialogue and collective bargaining has been rediscovered at the EU level. The Directive on Adequate...

Twenty-one months into deep recession a new and untried Coalition government chose deficit reduction and welfare-to-work as its main priorities, confronting the UK's numerically weakened trade union movement in its public sector heartlands over pensions, pay and jobs. The employers, more...

This is a summary of a report on the socio-economic situation in the United Kingdom after the crisis of 2008-09. It focuses on the evolution of labour relations including the role of central government (although the UK lacks social partnership arrangements of the kind seen in many other EU states).

The transition from a linear to a circular economic model is an essential contribution to the EU's efforts to develop a sustainable, low carbon, resource efficient, resilient and competitive economy. To accelerate the transition, the European Commission included in its 2015 EU Action Plan for...