Within days of each other, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and BusinessEurope, representatives of European businesses, published their responses to the first stage consultation on ‘Quality Jobs’, opened by the Commission last December(see EUROPE B13766A19).
The ETUC, for its part, mainly argues that improving job quality - not lowering standards - is the “real answer” to challenges facing the European economy.
“Nearly one in five workers in Europe are in low-quality...