Statistics and research results show that in recent decades, before the coronavirus pandemic, the EU's labour market witnessed an increase in female employment rates. Women's employment seems to have been more resilient than men's to the economic and financial crisis in 2008. The coronavirus crisis, however, has had a harsher impact on women than on men when it comes to the labour market.

EPRS policy podcast - Recent trends in female employment

Füüsilisest isikust ettevõtjad moodustavad 14% Euroopa Liidu tööjõust. Neid tabas koroonakriis eriti rängalt. Euroopa Liit on neid aidanud mitmel moel.

Mida teeb Euroopa Liit füüsilisest isikust ettevõtjate heaks koroonakriisi ajal?

2008. aasta majandus- ja finantskriisi tagajärjed annavad ikka veel tunda. See on üks põhjus, miks paljudel noortel on tõenäoliselt raske tööd leida ja iseseisvat elu alustada. Euroopa Liit aitab selliseid noori mitmel moel.

Mida teeb Euroopa Liit noorte heaks, kes ei tööta ega õpi?

The constitutive meetings of the European Parliament's standing committees and subcommittees take place in Brussels on 10 July 2019, following the appointment of their members in the plenary sitting of 3-4 July. During the meetings, each committee and subcommittee will elect its respective bureau, made up of a Chair and Vice-Chairs, for a two-and-a-half year mandate. The newly set up committees will then start holding their regular meetings during the week of 22 July.

EMPL - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Since the onset of the economic crisis, the EP has strongly supported the creation of a Youth Guarantee scheme, which was finally adopted in April 2013 as the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI).

The Youth Guarantee is a commitment by all Member States to ensure that all young people under the age of 25 years receive a good quality offer of employment, continued education, apprenticeship, traineeship, within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education.

The Youth Guarantee has become a reality across the EU and has helped to improve the lives of millions of young Europeans.

Youth Employment

Parliament wants all workers to benefit from minimum rights on working conditions, including those on non-traditional contracts.

On 16th April 2019 MEPs approved minimum rights for workers with on-demand, voucher-based or platform jobs, like with Uber or Deliveroo. The new rules include: minimum rights agreed for workers in casual or short-term employment; working conditions that must be made clear to workers on their first day on the job, and probationary periods that may not be longer than six months.

How is the EU fighting youth unemployment? With more than 26 million Europeans out of work, unemployment is one of the biggest issues that Europe is facing today.

#EUelections2019 - Employment

EMPL - Working Group on the European Child Guarantee

EMPL CRPD Network meeting

EMPL - Exchange of views with Alexei Buzu, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Moldova and Marina Morozova, Member of Parliament of the Republic of Moldova

EMPL committee

EMPL LIBE - Trilogue on the project of a directive extending the European Disability Card to Third Country Nationals

EMPL FEMM joint Committee meeting

EMPL - The draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year  2025

EMPL Committee - Revision of European Works Councils Directive

EMPL Committee - Presentation of the Council Presidency’s programme

European Parliamentary Week - EU Economic Governance From a Parliamentary Perspective - EMPL ICM

EMPL - Trilogue on platform work

EMPL - Final trilogue on disability card

EP Plenary session - Nikolaj Villumsen (EMPL A9-0263/2023) - Limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds and diisocyanates

EMPL - Presentation of the Belgian Presidency of the Council

EMPL - FEMM joint Committee meeting

EMPL trilogue on platform work

EMPL - FEMM Trilogue on Equality

EMPL Interparliamentary Committee Meeting on ' The participation of persons with disabilities in the electoral process '

Institutsioonidevaheline eetikaorgan (arutelu)

Laienemiseelsed reformid ja poliitika läbivaatamine (arutelu)

Meetmete raamistik Euroopa nullnetotehnoloogia toodete tootmise ökosüsteemi tugevdamiseks (nullnetotööstuse määrus) (arutelu)

Istungi jätkamine

Istungi juhataja avaldused

Hääletused

Plenary session

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

EMPL

Osaistungjärgu avamine

Hiljutiste Euroopa Ülemkogu kohtumiste järeldused, eelkõige uue Euroopa konkurentsivõime alase kokkuleppe ja ELi strateegilise tegevuskava 2024–2029 kohta (arutelu)

Majanduspoliitika tulemuslik koordineerimine ja mitmepoolne eelarvejärelevalve - Ülemäärase eelarvepuudujäägi menetluse rakendamise kiirendamine ja selgitamine – määruse muutmine - Liikmesriikide eelarveraamistiku nõuded – direktiivi muutmine

Naistevastase vägivalla ja perevägivalla tõkestamine (arutelu)

Euroopa puudega isiku kaardi ja Euroopa puudega isiku parkimiskaardi loomine - Euroopa puudega isiku kaart ja Euroopa puudega isiku parkimiskaart liikmesriigis seaduslikult elavatele kolmanda riigi kodanikele (ühine arutelu – puudega isiku kaardid)

Eelmise istungi protokolli kinnitamine

ELi reageering humanitaarabitöötajate, ajakirjanike ja tsiviilelanike korduvale tapmisele Gaza sektoris Iisraeli kaitsejõudude poolt (arutelu)

Venemaa külmutatud varade kasutamine Ukraina võidu ja ülesehitamise toetuseks (arutelu)

Delegeeritud õigusaktid (kodukorra artikli 111 lõige 6) (järelmeetmed)

Parandused (kodukorra artikkel 241)(järelmeetmed)

Katsed taaskehtestada Gruusias välisagentide seadus ning selle piirangud kodanikuühiskonnale (arutelu)

Olukord Haitis (arutelu)

Liidu taganemine energiaharta lepingust (arutelu)

ELi ja Egiptuse vaheline strateegiline ja laiaulatuslik partnerlus ning kokkulepped peamiste kolmandate riikidega (arutelu)

Taimse paljundusmaterjali tootmine ja turustamine - Kultiveerimismaterjali tootmine ja turustamine (ühine arutelu – taimne paljundusmaterjal ja kultiveerimismaterjal)

Lääne-Balkani reformi- ja kasvurahastu loomine (arutelu)

Selgitused hääletuse kohta

Järgmise istungi päevakord

Käesoleva istungi protokolli kinnitamine

Istungjärgu jätkamine

Istungi algus

Eelmiste istungite protokollide kinnitamine

Fraktsioonide koosseis

Parlamendi esimesele lugemisele eelnevad läbirääkimised (kodukorra artikkel 71) (võetavad meetmed)

Delegeeritud õigusaktid (kodukorra artikli 111 lõige 6)

Seadusandliku tavamenetluse kohaselt vastu võetud õigusaktide allkirjastamine (kodukorra artikkel 79)

Tööplaan

Plastigraanulite kao ärahoidmine mikroplastireostuse vähendamiseks (arutelu)

Kaupade parandamist edendavad ühised normid (arutelu)

Sunniviisilise töö tulemusena valminud toodete keelamine liidu turul (arutelu)

Direktiivi 2011/36/EL (milles käsitletakse inimkaubanduse tõkestamist ja sellevastast võitlust ning inimkaubanduse ohvrite kaitset) muutmine (arutelu)

Järgmise istungi päevakorra kinnitamine

Istungi lõpp

Parlamendi koosseis

Volituste kontrollimine

Parlamendi komisjonide ja delegatsioonide koosseis

Parlamendi esimesele lugemisele eelnevad läbirääkimised (kodukorra artikkel 71)

Delegeeritud õigusaktid (kodukorra artikli 111 lõige 6)(järelmeetmed)

Presidendi teadaanne (kirjalikult vastatavate küsimuste tähtaeg (kodukorra artikkel 138))

Venemaa ebademokraatlikud presidendivalimised ja nende ebaseaduslik laiendamine okupeeritud territooriumidele (arutelu)

Uued väited Venemaa sekkumise kohta Euroopa Parlamendi töösse, selle eelseisvatesse valimistesse, ja mõju liidule (arutelu)

Hiina politsei tegevus Euroopas (arutelu)

Käimasolevad ELi lepingu artikli 7 lõike 1 kohased kuulamised seoses Ungariga õigusriigi tugevdamiseks ning selle mõju eelarvele (arutelu)

2022. aasta eelarve täitmisele heakskiidu andmine (arutelu)

Üheminutilised sõnavõtud poliitiliselt olulistel teemadel

Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly - Meeting of the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment, Education, Culture and Civil Society

DEPA

Joint committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and committee on Employment and Social Affairs

LIBE

Istungjärgu avamine

Nõukogu ja komisjoni avaldused – Euroopa Ülemkogu 21. ja 22. märtsi 2024. aasta kohtumise ettevalmistamine (arutelu)

Nõukogu otsus, millega kutsutakse liikmesriike üles ratifitseerima Rahvusvahelise Tööorganisatsiooni 2019. aasta vägivalla ja ahistamise vastu võitlemise konventsiooni (nr 190) (arutelu)

Euroopa meediavabaduse määrus (arutelu)

Tehisintellekti käsitlev õigusakt (arutelu)

Infotund (komisjon) – ELi valitsuste valmisolek võidelda välissekkumise, eelkõige Venemaalt lähtuva sekkumise vastu

ELi kliimariski hindamine ning kiireloomuliste meetmete võtmine Euroopa julgeoleku ja vastupidavuse parandamiseks (arutelu)

Kolmandate riikide kodanikele liikmesriigis elamist ja töötamist võimaldava ühtse loa taotlemise ühtne menetlus ning liikmesriigis seaduslikult elavate kolmandatest riikidest pärit töötajate ühised õigused (uuesti sõnastatud) (arutelu)

Äriühingute kestlikkusalase hoolsuskohustuse direktiivi seis (arutelu)

Tuneesiat käsitleva 2023. aasta erimeetme vastuvõtmine (arutelu)

Vajadus kehtestada sanktsioonid Venemaa ja Valgevene toidu- ja põllumajandustoodete impordile ELi ning vajadus tagada ELi põllumajandustootmise stabiilsus (arutelu)

Euroopa piiriülesed ühingud (arutelu)

Sundlitsentsimine kriisiohje eesmärgil ja määruse (EÜ) nr 816/2006 muutmine (arutelu)

Joint committee on Employment and Social Affairs and committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Joint committee on Employment and Social Affairs and committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

FEMM

European Parliamentary Week 2024 - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs - Interparliamentary Committee Meetings

Belgium holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 January to 30 June 2024. Belgium has announced that it will be working to strengthen the European Union and make progress in several areas, such as climate change, economic growth and social cohesion; whilst acting as a neutral mediator to lead the legislative work and seek compromises among the EU Member States. Belgian Ministers present the priorities of the presidency in the EP Committee meetings (EMPL, REGI, TRAN - 23/01).

Presentation of the Belgian Presidency priorities: extracts from the presentation by Belgian Ministers in the EP Committee meetings (EMPL, REGI, TRAN - 23/01)

Elisabetta GUALMINI (S&D, IT), rapporteur, and Dragoș PÎSLARU (Renew, RO), EMPL Committee Chair, hold a press conference on the outcome of the negotiations with the Council on new rules for people working through digital labour platforms. This transcription is a result of an authomatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press conference by Elisabetta GUALMINI (S&D, IT), rapporteur, and Dragoș PÎSLARU (Renew, RO), EMPL Committee Chair on the outcome of the negotiations with the Council on new rules for people working through digital labour platforms

Pilar Alegría Continente (acting Minister of Education and Vocational Training), Joan Subirats Humet (acting Minister for Universities), Yolanda Díaz (second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Economy) and José Luis Escrivá (Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration) present the priorities of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the CULT and EMPL Committees in Brussels. Extracts from the presentation by Spanish Ministers in the EP Committee meetings (EMPL and CULT - 07/09).

Presentation of the EU Council's priorities by Spanish Ministers: extracts from the presentation by Spanish Ministers in the EP Committee meetings (EMPL and CULT - 07/09)

Samira RAFAELA (Renew, NL), Kira Marie PETER-HANSEN (Greens/EFA, DK), Rapporteurs on the pay transparency directive, and by Robert BIEDROŃ (S&D, PL), FEMM Chair and by Dragoş PÎSLARU (Renew, RO), EMPL Chair give a joint press conference in the European Parliament in Brussels, after the votes in the hemicycle. The transcription is the result of an automatic process. Please, check against delivery.

Press conference by Samira RAFAELA (Renew, NL), Kira Marie PETER-HANSEN (Greens/EFA, DK), Rapporteurs on Pay transparency directive Robert BIEDROŃ (S&D, PL), FEMM Chair and by Dragoş PÎSLARU (Renew, RO), EMPL Chair

The Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) Committee hosts a public hearing on the so-called “Uber files”, lobbying and workers’ rights with the intervention of the Uber whistleblower and former Head of Public Policy, Mark MACGANN. Extracts from the hearing.

Uber files, lobbying and workers’ rights: extracts from the Hearing at the EMPL Committee

On the 14th September 2022, Ursula von der LEYEN, EC President, delivers her State of the European Union (SOTEU) speech in the European Parliament. This infoclip illustrates one of the main stake of the coming year: recovery after Covid-19 pandemic through employment, youth and digital.

Infoclip: Recovery: Employment, youth and digital age

Following the last successful trilogue on the Directive "Adequate minimum wages in the EU", the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs votes on the provisional agreement that was reached, aiming to tackle in-work poverty and raise standards of living, foster collective bargaining, and enhance workers' rights to minimum wage protection. Votes and statements by Dennis RADTKE (EPP, DE) and Agnes JONGERIUS (S&D, NL), Rapporteurs.

Adequate minimum wages in the European Union: extracts from the votes and statements by Dennis RADTKE (EPP, DE) and Agnes JONGERIUS (S&D, NL), Rapporteurs

Ahead of each new rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union (every 6 months), the ministers of the holding country present their priorities in a series of meetings with parliamentary committees related to their political area. The committees of ENVI (Environnment, Public Health and Food Safety), AGRI (Agricultural and Rural) and EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) welcome the Czech Republic’s ministers, including Anna HUBÁČKOVÁ, Minister for the Environment, Zdeněk NEKULA, Minister of Agriculture and Marian JUREČKA, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

Presentation of the EU Council's priorities by Czech Ministers: extracts from the presentation by Czech Ministers in the EP Committee meetings (ENVI, AGRI and EMPL)

An extraordinary joint meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs takes place to discuss the risk of illegal adoption of Ukrainian children from institutional care. The EP Coordinator on Children's Rights VP Ewa Kopacz addresses the MEPs on the legal and social policy aspects of adoption and the need to ensure international and European legal norms. Extract with Theoni KOUFONIKOLAKOU, Aaron GREENBERG, Anna KRAWCZAK, Katarina IVANKOVIC KNEZEVIC

The risk of illegal adoption concerning Ukrainian children from institutional care fleeing from war: extracts from the exchange of views - JURI and EMPL Committees

MEPs have identified among their priorities for next year’s budget the recovery, health, youth and climate action, and addressing the consequences of the invasion of Ukraine. MEPs say they want the 2023 EU budget to be a “future-oriented budget that matches the Union’s political priorities of ensuring a stronger Health Union, making a success of the green and digital transitions, and fostering a fair, inclusive, sustainable and resilient recovery, including increased support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Opening statements by Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ (Renew, RO), rapporteur, Johannes HAHN, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration, Dragoş PÎSLARU (Renew, RO), EMPL; Christian EHLER (EPP, DE), ITRE; Vlad GHEORGHE (Renew, RO), TRAN; Andrea CAROPPO (EPP, IT), AGRI; Morten LØKKEGAARD (Renew, DK), CULT; and by Monika VANA (Greens/EFA, AT), FEMM.

Guidelines for the 2023 budget – Section III: opening statements by Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ (Renew, RO), rapporteur, Johannes HAHN, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration

A delegation of members of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament (EMPL) visited Roma villages in Slovakia. This infoclip illustrates Romani districts with precarious buildings and dwellings in Košice (Luník IX), Drienovec and Dobšiná.

Infoclip: Situation of Roma people

In 2020, the Commission published a proposal for a directive to improve the adequacy for fair minimum wages in the EU. It is meant to not only protect workers in the EU, but also help to close the gender pay gap, strengthen incentives to work and create a level playing field in the Single Market. Dennis RADTKE (EPP, DE), and Agnes JONGERIUS (S&D, NL), co-rapporteurs, talk to the press, following Parliament’s employment committee votes on an Adequate minimum wages in the EU. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press conference by Dennis RADTKE (EPP, DE), and Agnes JONGERIUS (S&D, NL), co-rapporteurs on the directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union

The European Parliament hold the second European Gender Equality Week from 25 to 28 October. Several parliamentary committees and delegations organise sessions addressing gender equality issues in their policy areas. Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality explain the gender equality issues in the various policy areas.

Gender equality week: statement by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), FEMM Committee Chair - atmosphere shots of the EP Committees

MEPs discuss and vote the protection of workers from asbestos during a meeting of the EP Committee on Employment and Social Affairs in the European Parliament in Brussels. Statement by Nikolaj VILLUMSEN (The Left, DK), rapporteur

Vote on Protecting workers from asbestos: statement by Nikolaj VILLUMSEN (The Left, DK), rapporteur

Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP, DE), Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control (BUDG), and Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ (EPP, CZ), Vice-Chair of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL), give a press conference on illegal payment of agro-subsidies in Slovakia during the plenary session (13-16 September 2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Press conference by Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP, DE), Chair of BUDG and Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ (EPP, CZ), Vice-Chair of EMPL, on illegal payment of agro-subsidies in Slovakia

During the plenary session (13-16 September 2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs debate on the fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development. (Second part of the debate)

Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development: MEPs debate (Part 2/2)

During the plenary session (13-16 September 2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs participate in the debate on the fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development: closing statement by Nicolas SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs.

Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development: closing statement by Nicolas SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs

During the plenary session (13-16 September 2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs participate in the debate on the fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development: opening statements by Sylvie BRUNET (Renew, FR), Marianne VIND (S&D, DK) rapporteurs and by Nicolas SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs.

Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digitalization: opening statements by Sylvie BRUNET (Renew, FR), Marianne VIND (S&D, DK) rapporteurs and Nicolas SCHMIT, EU Commissioner

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