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The European Union (EU) is committed to the elimination of forced labour, a denial of rights of which there are 28 million victims globally. In September 2022, the European Commission proposed a Regulation to ban all products made by forced labour from the EU market (COM (2022) 453). This proposal has been criticised for failing to facilitate remedies for forced labour victims, in line with EU and global standards such as the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This Briefing ...

El salario mínimo puede protegerse por medio de convenios colectivos, salarios mínimos legales establecidos por ley, o una combinación de ambos elementos. La Comisión Europea ha propuesto una Directiva dirigida a promover la adecuación de los salarios mínimos legales para contribuir a lograr unas condiciones de vida y de trabajo dignas para los trabajadores europeos. Por primera vez, la Comisión emprende acciones legislativas en materia de protección del salario mínimo, aunque dejará que los Estados ...

The level playing-field (LPF) provisions of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) constitute a key part of the agreement, and are the product of some of the more challenging issues in the negotiations. The LPF provisions seek to safeguard fair competition between the parties. A notable component are the rules on social provisions, labour, environment and climate change, often referred to as the 'trade and sustainable development' (TSD ...

Supply chains are increasingly international, but many of EU's trade partners fail to meet both the labour standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and international human rights norms. EU trade policy is designed to ensure that economic development complies with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, while upholding human rights and high labour standards. WTO rules require members to comply with a set of basic free trading principles, in particular national treatment and most-favoured ...

The report provides an in-depth overview of the social, political and economic urgencies in identifying what we call the ‘new surveillance workplace’. The report assesses the range of technologies that are being introduced to monitor, track and, ultimately, watch workers, and looks at the immense changes they imbue in several arenas. How are institutions responding to the widespread uptake of new tracking technologies in workplaces, from the office, to the contact centre, to the factory? What are ...

The impact assessment (IA) defines clearly the problem and its underlying drivers. The IA considers a wide range of options, and those retained for further assessment appear to be reasonable and/or justified. However, the IA would have benefited from providing greater clarity on those components that were either included in (short-term exposure limit values) or excluded (biological limit values) from the preferred options. The analysis of impacts focuses on their economic and social dimension, mainly ...

Este estudio, encargado por el Departamento Temático de Derechos de los Ciudadanos y Asuntos Constitucionales del Parlamento Europeo a petición de la Comisión JURI, verifica hasta qué punto los Estados miembros apoyan el desarrollo, la adopción y la aplicación de estrategias de responsabilidad social de las empresas (RSE) en la comunidad empresarial, haciendo especial hincapié en los requisitos de diligencia debida. También formula recomendaciones para desarrollar un enfoque global y estructurado ...

Following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) on 1 February 2020, the EU and the UK launched negotiations on a new partnership agreement, to come into effect at the end of the transition period, scheduled for 31 December 2020. The negotiations are intended to address nearly all the domains covered in the Political Declaration negotiated by both parties alongside the Withdrawal Agreement, including trade and economics, fisheries, thematic cooperation, and internal ...

This study, commissioned by the the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Petitions, was prepared to assess the nature and extent of employment precariousness in the framework of EU’s fundamental rights and EU employment law. The analysis focuses on two broad areas, namely atypical forms of employment and franchising. The report identifies a number of ‘protective gaps’ at various levels of regulation and puts forward ...

El dumping y la subvención de las exportaciones procedentes de terceros países constituyen prácticas comerciales desleales que pueden perjudicar al país importador. La legislación de la OMC permite contrarrestar dicho perjuicio mediante la introducción de derechos específicos denominados instrumentos de defensa comercial (IDC). Para que los IDC de la Unión puedan hacer frente a las circunstancias actuales, sobre todo al exceso de capacidad, en el entorno comercial internacional, la Comisión Europea ...