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On 11 March 2024, employment and social affairs ministers from the EU Member States endorsed the agreement reached with the European Parliament in February 2024 on the platform work directive. The directive introduces the presumption of employment – to be applied following national rules – as well as the first EU rules to regulate algorithmic management in the workplace. Platform work is an umbrella concept covering a heterogeneous group of economic activities completed through a digital platform ...

The question of whether the 34 decentralised European Union (EU) Agencies and EPPO are adequately equipped with human and financial resources is a recurring discussion in the different budget and discharge procedures addressing the work of the Agencies. A common issue voiced is that extensions of an agency’s mandate are not matched by a corresponding increase in available funding and human resources. In a special report on the future of EU agencies from 2020, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) ...

Platform work is on the rise, with hundreds of digital platforms active in the EU and millions of workers earning some income by working for them. A proposed EU directive seeks to set criteria to determine whether platform workers are self-employed or employees, which is key for improving their working conditions and social rights. In addition, it would set the first EU rules on the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace. With their positions agreed, the European Parliament and the Council ...

This study examines the management of Contract Agents in seven decentralised Agencies of the European Union: ECHA, EEA, EIGE, ENISA, ESMA, Eurofound and Europol. It evaluates the evolution of Contract Agents as part of the workforce, and presents findings on processes related to personnel budgeting, recruitment and retention, salary and remuneration, and advancement prospects for contract staff. This document was prepared by the Policy Department at the request of the Committee on Budgetary Control ...

Briefkastenfirmen sind Unternehmen, die keine oder nur eine minimale wirtschaftliche Tätigkeit ausüben. Sie können zwar mitunter nützlichen kommerziellen Funktionen dienen, können aber auch zu Zwecken der aggressiven Steuerplanung oder Steuerhinterziehung missbraucht werden. Mit dem „Unshell“-Vorschlag der Kommission soll verhindert werden, dass Briefkastenfirmen in der EU in den Genuss von Steuervergünstigungen kommen. Das Parlament wird während seiner Januar-I-Tagung 2023 über einen diesbezüglichen ...

Die Globalisierung und Veränderungen bei der Art, wie multinationale Unternehmen organisiert sind, haben zur Folge, dass strategische Entscheidungen mit Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitnehmer immer häufiger in einem anderen Land getroffen werden. Die Europäischen Betriebsräte sollen sicherstellen, dass die Stimme der Arbeitnehmer bei der länderübergreifenden Beschlussfassung gehört wird, doch es wurden Schwachstellen in den bestehenden EU-Vorschriften festgestellt. Da die Kommission nicht beabsichtigt ...

Die Mitgliedstaaten werden mit mehreren Rechtsinstrumenten der EU in ihren Bemühungen unterstützt, sicherzustellen, dass die Arbeitnehmer über die Entscheidungsprozesse am Arbeitsplatz informiert und daran beteiligt werden. Während die Europäischen Betriebsräte die Arbeitsbeziehungen erheblich erleichtern, haben sich die Vorschriften der EU über die Vertretung von Arbeitnehmern als schwer verständlich erwiesen, wobei ihre Struktur mitunter widersprüchlich ist. Der Ausschuss für Beschäftigung und ...

This Briefing forms part of an EPRS series which offers a synthesis of the pre-legislative state-of-play and advance consultation on a range of key European Commission priorities during the latter’s five-year term in office. It seeks to summarise the state of affairs in the relevant policy field, examine how existing policy is working on the ground, and identify best practice and ideas for the future on the part of governmental organisations at all levels of European system of multilevel governance ...

While the Eurosystem has considerably improved its operational transparency in the last few years, it is still lagging the Federal Reserve System (Fed), especially in terms of the information it provides on operating costs and staff numbers, for which it provides very scarce data. In addition, the available information is scattered throughout different publications, rather than being presented in a user-friendly fashion. Compared to the Fed, the Eurosystem seems to have higher staff numbers and operational ...

The workshop aimed to address topics concerning fully and partially self-financed agencies related to both BUDG and CONT committees’ competences. With regards of the agencies' resources, the workshop looked into the principles of fee setting, and 5% cut and the redeployment pool vs. the need to provide timely services to industry, which is paying for them. From the point of oversight, items for discussion included the question of discharge procedure for fully self-financed agencies, provisions ...