In-work poverty
Edited by Andrea Lassandari, Ester Villa, Carlo Zoli
Publisher: G. Giappichelli Editore – Torino
Date: October, 2022
This special issue of the Italian peer-reviewed journal ‘Variazioni su temi di diritto del lavoro’, dedicated to In-work poverty in Italy, collects some essays in Italian of our partners from the Research Group of the University of Bologna.
Authors: Christina Hiessl, Elena Gramano, Gerrard Boot, Itaru Nishimura, Hideki S. Tanaka, Yota Yamamoto, Aelim Yun
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Date: December, 2022
Our partner Christina Hiessl, from KU Leuven, has coordinated this Special Issue that explores the necessity and availability of income protection measures for the self-employed, focusing on how the regulation and the debate about their conditions evolved during the COVID-19 crisis. The situation in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands is represented, together with Japan and Korea.
It was published as Vol. 38 (2022) Issue 4 of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
Edited by Luca Ratti and Antonio Garcia-Muñoz
Date: September, 2022
In work-poverty is a complex reality and many drivers have an influence in its formation. The role of law in regulating the labour market is just one factor among many others, but nonetheless remains important for it has an influence on the working conditions of the working poor.
This second part of the Special Issue on in-work poverty in the EU addresses two highly topical issues of EU law that are pivotal in the analysis of in-work poverty: on the one hand, the regulation of platform work at EU level and, on the other hand, the difficult question of collective bargaining for the self-employed in the EU.
Publisher: EAPN Date: 2019
EAPN has decided to share knowledge and give visibility to promising practices that have been able to address positively the crucial issue of in-work poverty. This is a compendium collecting promising practices around tackling in-work poverty, whether they are policy, projects or campaigns. The rationale behind this work is to draw from experience of people directly involved in these processes to offer an overview of what seems to be working in the fight against in-work poverty. This compendium will complement our ongoing policy work in the framework of the European Semester, including on the delivery on the Europe 2020 Strategy poverty- and other social targets, and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Authors: Ramon Peña Casas, Dalila Ghailani, Slavina Spasova, Bart Vanherke Publisher: European Commission Date: May 2019
Getting people into quality jobs is key to achieving the European Union’s ambition of fostering upward convergence in living standards across all Member States. However, while working is generally considered as the best way to avoid poverty, this is not sufficient for almost one out of ten European workers. This report produced by the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) shows that addressing in-work poverty remains a key challenge— in spite of the wide array of existing policies and policy reforms underway. Beyond the damaging consequences for European societies, in-work poverty signals a fundamental social unfairness: working is not a guarantee for avoiding poverty.
Authors: Claudio Lucifora, Valentina Ferraris Date: 2014 Presentazione al CNEL, 1 luglio 2014
Copyrighted articles of doctrine
Bednarowicz B., The tale of transparent and predictable working conditions intertwined with work-life balance: Assessing the impact of the new social policy directives on decent working conditions and social protection, European Journal of Social Security, 2020, Vol. 22, 4, pp. 421–433.
Precarious employment is often associated with job insecurity and limited corollary entitlements to income support. More specifically, what makes the jobs precarious are factors such as in-work poverty and low pay, insufficient labour law and social security protection, high levels of stress and health problems, limited career development and training options or low levels of collective rights. Precarious workers engaged in atypical forms of employment such as casual work, zero-hours contracts or platform-mediated work are particularly prone to experiencing precarious working conditions and often consequently, in-work poverty and thus social exclusion. A question therefore emerges as to the adequate response at EU level to combat precarious employment and provide for decent jobs with fair working conditions including protection against discrimination and also access to adequate social protection. Against this background, this article takes stock of the two first legally binding roll-out initiatives from the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), namely Directive (EU) 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union and Directive (EU) 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers, to assess their impact on decent working and employment conditions, and social protection, while also exploring in greater detail their coverage and potential limitations.
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