To address the challenges that the structural shifts currently reshaping the world of work are creating, labour markets need to evolve to ensure that they remain open, inclusive and sustainable.
As labour markets enablers, the World Employment Confederation-Europe and its members believe that they have a leadership role to play in building such future proof labour markets.
The private employment industry believes in “social innovation” as the way forward. Social innovation is defined as the implementation of new solutions for working, learning and social protection for the benefit of workers, employers and society in general. The World Employment Confederation’s Members have developed a map detailing the goals and conditions of social innovation, suggesting some examples of potential actions, identifying which stakeholders our industry should work with as well as outlining the benefits and risks for our sector.
Furthermore, the World Employment Confederation adopted a Manifesto entitled “No Future of Work without Social Innovation”, developing five sets of recommendations and clear calls for action:
Based on this Manifesto, the World Employment Confederation-Europe developed its own vision “Making Europe the best place to work!”. The 2019 European elections and a new European Commission taking office present a unique opportunity for European decision-makers to embrace social innovation and enable sustainable and inclusive labour markets.
The World Employment Confederation-Europe recommends the following policy actions to be implemented:
Social Innovation is the core theme of the 2019-2020 work programme of the EU Sectoral Social Dialogue for the Agency Work sector. Check out our Social Dialogue page to find out more about the research project that the World Employment Confederation-Europe and UNI Europa are conducting jointly.
