Eurofound:

an overview of activities

Juan Menéndez-Valdés

Director

EP Employment and Social Affairs Committee

4 November 2014

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Your questions to the new

Commissioners

The European Jobs Monitor

• Jobs created and destroyed in terms of

wages

job quality

educational attainment

of workers

in 2015: task content

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Employment

Net job loss during recession

The role of social partners in National Reform

Programmes and the European Semester

• How have regulatory changes affected involvement

and impact of industrial relations actors at national

and EU level?

• Results 2015 4

Social dialogue

• Mapping to what extent social partners are involved in the design and implementation of NRPs

Objective 1

• Analysing the role of social partners in the European Semester

Objective 2

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• Previous trends reinforced:

decentralisation, more scope

for negotiation at company

level.

• CSRs on wage-setting aim at

“marketization”- impact

varies.

• Stronger impact in wage-

setting in Programme

countries and others most hit

by the crisis.

• Average nominal collectively

agreed pay increases

roughly same or lower as

2012.

• Lower inflation rates in some

countries lead to increased

purchasing power.

• In real terms, collectively

agreed pay increased the

most in Slovakia (2.0%) and

Sweden (1.6%) while it

decreased the most in the

United Kingdom (-1.6%).

Wage setting

Pay developments 2013

Wages

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Undeclared work

• Database on measures

to combat undeclared

work since 2007

• EU platform against

undeclared work:

foresees a role for

Eurofound

• 2015 project on

fraudulent forms of

contracting work and

self-employment

• Assessing childcare services

• The impacts of the crisis on access to healthcare

services

• Delivering public services – a greater role for the

private sector ?

• Access to benefits in times of crisis 7

Quality / Access to services

Perceived quality of public services

has a stronger impact on trust in

government than perception of

country’s economic performance.

Youth

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What is Eurofound?

The European Foundation for the

Improvement of Living and Working

Conditions …

• Established in 1975

• Budget of EUR 20.5 m (2014)

• 100 people in Dublin and

Brussels

• Tripartite EU agency

• Member of EU Agencies

Network – Coordinator from

March 2015

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Mission

Eurofound’s Mission

is to provide

knowledge, to key

policy makers, to

assist the

development of

social and work-

related policies

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Four year programme 2013 – 2016

“Better informed policies

for a competitive and fair Europe”

Eurofound will provide high quality, timely and policy relevant knowledge as input to better informed policies in four policy priority areas.

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Increasing labour market

participation and combating

unemployment

Improving working conditions

and making work sustainable

Developing industrial relations to

ensure equitable and productive

solutions

Improving standards of living

and promoting social cohesion

Value of comparative research

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(EWCS)

1990/91; 1995/96; 2000;

2005; 2010; 2015

(EQLS)

2003; 2007/8; 2011/12; 2016

(ECS)

2004; 2009; 2013

Monitoring activities –

European surveys

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Monitoring activities –

Observatories

EU-wide network of correspondents (28 + NO)

collects and analyses national information on industrial relations, working

conditions, employment and restructuring, and social policy.

Monitoring our performance

Eurofound Performance Monitoring System (EPMS)

to monitor and demonstrate the agency’s performance

Some performance indicators:

• Eurofound’s expertise reflected in 230 EU policy documents in

2014, 55 of them key documents initiating or framing policy (up

to October)

• 119 contributions on-request to policy development through

events in 2014 (up to September)

• Programme delivery, budget utilisation 99.5%, carry-overs, use of

staff capacity 97%

Risks assessments, annual audits by IAS

Budget discharge (Council and European Parliament) 15

Eurofound work referenced in EP

reports and resolutions

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Youth

‘Tackling Youth employment’ (2013)

‘Youth Guarantee’ (2013)

Employment and social aspects of

economic governance

‘Employment and Social aspects of the role and operations of the Troika with regard

to euro area programme countries’

(2014)

‘European Semester for economic policy

coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2013’

(2013)

Restructuring

‘Proposal for a regulation on the

European Globalisation

Adjustment Fund 2014-2020’ (2013)

Recommendations to the EC on

‘Information and consultation of

workers, anticipation and management of restructuring’ (2012)

• Occasional

papers on request

• Speakers and

experts for

conferences at

the EP, expert

meetings or

country visits in

your Member

States

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Eurofound Brussels Office

Coordinates Eurofound

contributions to EP hearings

Working Lunches with Members of the Parliament

Organises face-to-face meetings with

Eurofound researchers

Provides updated data for your

reports

How can Eurofound support your work?

For more information, please visit:

www.eurofound.europa.eu

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Thank You!