Reforms / Proposals

Ban on products made with forced labour: Parliament presents its recommendations – 6.2022

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on decent work worldwide for a global just transition and a sustainable recovery – COM(2022) 66 final – Brussels, 23.2.2022

BRIEFING EU Legislation in Progress EPRS – European Parliamentary Research Service – EN Directive on adequate minimum wages – June 2022

M.  Delfino, The Proposal for an EU Directive on adequate Minimum Wages and its impact on Italy, italian Labour Law e-Journal, Issue 1, Vol. 14 (2021), 49 ff.

Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on adequate minimum wages in the European Union – COM(2020) 682 final – Brussels, 28.10.2020

UAE labour law reforms fail to address abuses of workers’ rights – 11.2021

India: Overview of Labour Law Reforms – 2020

European Commission (2017), Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union.

ILO – Request for Proposal – RFP No 01/2016/PHI/15/50M/USA – Assessment of the Labor Law Compliance Officers’ competency standards and training needs requirements on occupational safety and health – July 2016

Commission proposes to improve workers’ rights for seafarers – 2013

Legislative Instruments

DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/1158 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU

European Commission STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT (2017), REFIT Evaluation of the ‘Written Statement Directive’ (Directive 91/533/EEC) – {C(2017) 2611 final} – Brussels, 26.4.2017

DIRECTIVE 2006/54/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast)

Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation

European Social Charter (Revised) Strasbourg, 3.V.1996

Council Directive 91/533/EEC of 14 October 1991 on an employer’s obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship.

Workers’ Representatives Convention, 1971 (No. 135)

ILO – Voluntary Conciliation and Arbitration Recommendation, 1951 (No. 92)

Posting of workers

• 1996/71/EC
• 2014/67/EU
• 2018/957/EU
• D.lgs. 136/2016 mod. D.lgs. 122/2020

Transport workers

• Dir. 1999/63/EC
• Dir. 2009/13/EC
• Dir. 2017/159/EU

Temporary agency work

• Dir. 2008/104/EC
• The Private Employment Agencies ILO Convention, 1997 (No. 181)

Directive on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union

• 2019/1152/EU

ILO Conventions

ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111)

ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100)

ILO Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)

ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87)

ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)