Corporate lobbyists push for deregulation while workers pay the price Competitiveness has become the most abused word in Brussels. It is invoked to justify almost anything — except the one thing Europe actually needs: a strong industrial policy to build quality jobs, ...

The forthcoming #QualityJobsAct is a chance to put this vision into practice.

Real competitiveness is built on quality jobs & shared prosperity, not a race to the bottom.

🔗 Read Esther Lynch’s full op-ed.

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European Federation of Building and Woodworkers EFBWW calls for an ambitious Subcontracting Directive to deliver quality jobs in construction

#QualityJobsAct requires quality rules!
🔹 Binding legislation #LimitSubcontracting
🔹 Stronger enforcement
🔹 High OSH standards across the entire internal market

👏 👏👏 “Today’s vote shows there is overwhelming support for a #justtransition & we expect the @ec.europa.eu to include legislation in the #QualityJobsAct", Ludovic Voet of @etuc-ces.bsky.social 🫶✨🙏💪
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Quality jobs – going beyond productivity Catholic engagement in systemic economic transformation.

The @ec.europa.eu #QualityJobs Roadmap notes challenges but lacks real solutions to in-work poverty.

As consultations on the #QualityJobsAct begin, civil society must be fully included to ensure it tackles in-work poverty and puts people & the planet first.
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EU-komissio julkaisi viime viikolla Laadukkaiden työpaikkojen tiekartan sekä työmarkkinaosapuolten ensimmäisen kuulemisen 2026 annettavasta lainsäädäntöaloitteesta #QualityJobsAct . Sisältöä ja muutamia ajatuksia @sttk.fi blogissa #EU #työelämä @finunions.bsky.social

📣 The Quality Jobs Act, which will be presented by the European Commission at the end of next year, is a chance to rebuild Europe’s social contract.✊ #qualityjobsact
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