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

Een op de zeven Europeanen werkt als zelfstandige en is daarmee bijzonder zwaar getroffen door het coronavirus. De EU biedt deze mensen op verschillende manieren een helpende hand.

Dit is wat Europa tijdens de coronacrisis doet voor zelfstandigen

Het spook van de crisis van 2008 waart nog altijd rond. Heel wat jongeren hebben nog altijd moeite om werk te vinden en zelfstandig te worden. Hierbij drie voorbeelden van wat Europa voor hen doet.

Dit doet Europa voor jongeren die niet werken en geen opleiding volgen

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 '

Interinstitutioneel Orgaan voor ethische normen (debat)

Hervormingen en beleidsevaluaties vóór de uitbreiding (debat)

Kader van maatregelen ter versterking van het Europese ecosysteem voor de productie van nettonultechnologieproducten (verordening voor een nettonulindustrie) (debat)

Hervatting van de vergadering

Verklaringen van de Voorzitter

Stemmingen

Plenary session

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

EMPL

Opening van de vergadering

Conclusies van de recente vergaderingen van de Europese Raad, met name inzake een nieuwe Europese deal voor concurrentievermogen en de strategische agenda van de EU 2024-2029 (debat)

Doeltreffende coördinatie van het economisch beleid en het multilaterale begrotingstoezicht - Bespoediging en verduidelijking van de tenuitvoerlegging van de procedure bij buitensporige tekorten – wijzigingsverordening - Voorschriften voor de begrotingskaders van de lidstaten – wijzigingsrichtlijn

Bestrijding van geweld tegen vrouwen en huiselijk geweld (debat)

Europese gehandicaptenkaart en Europese parkeerkaart voor personen met een handicap - Europese gehandicaptenkaart en Europese parkeerkaart voor personen met een handicap voor onderdanen van derde landen die legaal in een lidstaat verblijven  (gezamenlijk debat - Gehandicaptenkaarten)

Goedkeuring van de notulen van de vorige vergadering

Reactie van de EU op het herhaalde doden van humanitaire hulpverleners, journalisten en burgers door de Israëlische verdedigingstroepen in de Gazastrook (debat)

Het gebruik van de bevroren Russische tegoeden ter ondersteuning van de overwinning en wederopbouw van Oekraïne (debat)

Gedelegeerde handelingen (artikel 111, lid 6, van het Reglement) (volgende stappen)

Rectificaties (artikel 241 van het Reglement)(opvolging)

Nieuwe pogingen om een wet op buitenlandse agenten in te voeren in Georgië en de hieruit voortvloeiende beperkingen voor het maatschappelijk middenveld (debat)

Situatie in Haïti (debat)

Terugtrekking van de Unie uit het Verdrag inzake het Energiehandvest (debat)

Strategisch en breed partnerschap tussen de EU en Egypte en akkoorden met essentiële derde landen (debat)

Productie en in de handel brengen van plantaardig teeltmateriaal - Productie en in de handel brengen van bosbouwkundig teeltmateriaal (gezamenlijk debat - Plantaardig en bosbouwkundig teeltmateriaal)

Oprichting van de hervormings- en groeifaciliteit voor de Westelijke Balkan (debat)

Stemverklaringen

Agenda van de volgende vergadering

Goedkeuring van de notulen van deze vergadering

Hervatting van de zitting

Goedkeuring van de notulen van de vorige vergaderingen

Samenstelling fracties

Onderhandelingen voorafgaand aan de eerste lezing van het Parlement (artikel 71 van het Reglement) (volgende stappen)

Gedelegeerde handelingen (artikel 111, lid 6, van het Reglement)

Ondertekening van volgens de gewone wetgevingsprocedure vastgestelde handelingen (artikel 79 van het Reglement)

Regeling van de werkzaamheden

Voorkomen van het verlies van kunststofpellets om de vervuiling door microplastics te verminderen (debat)

Gemeenschappelijke regels ter bevordering van de reparatie van goederen (debat)

Verbod op met dwangarbeid vervaardigde producten op de markt van de Unie (debat)

Wijziging van Richtlijn 2011/36/EU inzake de voorkoming en bestrijding van mensenhandel en de bescherming van slachtoffers daarvan (debat)

Agenda voor de volgende vergadering

Sluiting van de vergadering

Samenstelling Parlement

Onderzoek geloofsbrieven

Samenstelling commissies en delegaties

Onderhandelingen voorafgaand aan de eerste lezing van het Parlement (artikel 71 van het Reglement)

Gedelegeerde handelingen (artikel 111, lid 6, van het Reglement)(opvolging)

Mededeling van de Voorzitter (uiterste termijn voor vragen met verzoek om schriftelijk antwoord (artikel 138 van het Reglement))

De ondemocratische presidentsverkiezingen in Rusland en de onrechtmatige uitbreiding daarvan naar de bezette gebieden (debat)

Nieuwe beschuldigingen van Russische inmenging in het Europees Parlement en in de komende Europese verkiezingen en de gevolgen daarvan voor de Unie (debat)

Chinese politieactiviteiten in Europa (debat)

Lopende hoorzittingen in het kader van artikel 7, lid 1, VEU over Hongarije om de rechtstaat te versterken en de budgettaire gevolgen daarvan (debat)

Kwijting 2022 (debat)

Spreektijd van één minuut over kwesties van politiek belang

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

Opening van de zitting

Verklaringen van de Raad en de Commissie – Voorbereiding van de bijeenkomst van de Europese Raad van 21 en 22 maart 2024 (debat)

Besluit van de Raad waarbij de lidstaten wordt verzocht het Verdrag betreffende geweld en intimidatie, 2019 (nr. 190), van de Internationale Arbeidsorganisatie te bekrachtigen (debat)

Verordening mediavrijheid (debat)

De wet op de artificiële intelligentie (debat)

Vragenuur (Commissie) – De mate waarin de regeringen in de EU voorbereid zijn om buitenlandse inmenging, onder meer door Rusland, tegen te gaan

Risicobeoordeling van het klimaat in de EU – Dringende maatregelen die moeten worden genomen om de veiligheid en veerkracht in Europa te versterken (debat)

Eén enkele aanvraagprocedure voor een gecombineerde vergunning voor onderdanen van derde landen om te verblijven en te werken op het grondgebied van een lidstaat, alsmede een gemeenschappelijk pakket rechten voor werknemers uit derde landen die legaal in een lidstaat verblijven (herschikking) (debat)

De richtlijn inzake passende zorgvuldigheid in het bedrijfsleven op het gebied van duurzaamheid: stand van zaken (debat)

Goedkeuring van de bijzondere maatregel ten behoeve van Tunesië voor 2023 (debat)

De noodzaak om sancties op te leggen in verband met de invoer van Russische en Belarussische voedings- en landbouwproducten in de EU en om de stabiliteit van de landbouwproductie van de EU te waarborgen (debat)

Europese grensoverschrijdende verenigingen (debat)

Verlening van dwanglicenties voor crisisbeheersing en wijziging van Verordening (EG) nr. 816/2006 (debat)

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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