Employment related content 

The effects of the market need to be modified to ensure that income is more evenly distributed. Over the past three decades, hundreds of millions of workers have entered the...

Unsustainable trends put questions of retirement age and pension funding in the spotlight. Last October more than three million people protested on the streets of France...

The world of work has changed. Our view of labour relations has to do the same. The economic crisis has increased unemployment dramatically, to a point where 23 million...

The US could learn some lessons about labour markets from Europe. Add another casualty to the list of victims of the Great Recession: the US conceit that its labour market...

Commission says healthcare sector could face a massive shortage of workers. The European Union could face a shortfall of around one million healthcare workers by 2020,...

The numbers are impressive. In his first ‘state of the Union' address last September, José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, said he wanted...

More so-called green-collar jobs have been created in recent years, but is a ‘green job' new and how green are these new jobs? No self-respecting political leader should...

Why, and how, the EU must upgrade Europeans' computing skills. The ‘European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion' is drawing to a close. This should make us...

Opposition to more time off for parents amid fear of harm to employment National governments will next week dismiss a plan from the European Parliament to extend the basic...

Mobility and education are at the heart of plans to invigorate the EU's economy. The EU has made job creation one of the central priorities of its Europe 2020 strategy,...

The economic crisis has raised the stakes as the EU tries to achieve higher levels of employment. Providing sufficient job opportunities for the EU's workforce and ensuring...

National governments say early-retirement schemes for EU staff are too generous Early-retirement schemes for European Union staff are over-used and over-generous, according...

Agency work provides valuable experience. The ‘Youth on the Move' initiative adopted this week by the European Commission  (“Commission seeks to cut youth...

The effects of making work placements eligible for Erasmus grants. Traditionally limited to periods of study at foreign universities, the EU's Erasmus scheme was expanded to...

Corporate Sales Executive The person in this position will be responsible for meeting individual advertising goals, maintaining and growing existing accounts and actively...

Commission to start debate on reforms. The European Commission is to start a debate on reforms that should be made to Europe's pensions systems. A policy paper calling for...

Sales Executive (maternity cover for 6 months) The person in this position will be responsible for meeting individual advertising goals, maintaining and growing existing...

Concerns about costs hamper efforts to raise mothers' minimum rights. Concerns about costs to businesses and governments are hampering efforts to raise mothers' minimum...

Public- and private-sector employment agencies should work together. The past week has seen a set of figures suggesting that a number of economies are bouncing off the...

Denmarks' employment minister says the crisis has underlined the value of a flexible welfare system. Since the economic crisis hit the world economy, flexicurity has...