In his political guidelines for his Commission, President Juncker stated he would be a President of social dialogue. He underlined that "the social market economy can only work if there is social dialogue. Social dialogue suffered during the crisis years. Now it must be resumed at national and...

This toolkit is intended to assist public employment services (PES) in designing, implementing and/or reviewing their approach to performance management. It provides concrete guidance and tools for PES to develop key components of performance management (PM) systems from scratch, or to review...

This report presents the results of the study to support the REFIT evaluation of Directive 91/533/EC on an employer's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship - commonly referred to as the Written Statement Directive. The Directive...

The free movement of persons is one of the four fundamental rights of the single market, guaranteed to all European citizens by the Treaties. This includes the right of free movement of workers and the right to work in another Member State. In principle, all EU citizens are free to move and to...

The European Commission, DG EMPL is undertaking the ex post evaluation of the European programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the final evaluation of the European Progress Microfinance Facility (EPMF), which this study feeds into. It assesses EaSI and the EPMF against the...