Ive Marx, author at Social Europe

minimum wages,minimum wage,low pay,collective bargaining,social partners,trade unions,directive

Does the minimum-wages directive get it right?

Henri Haapanala, Ive Marx and Zachary Parolin

Are statutory minimum wages or collective-bargaining coverage the answer to low pay? Both, actually.

Revised posted workers directive: throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

The EU needs to acknowledge the vital economic role of posting and differentiate the rules according to its different types.

Europe’s Poor Need More Than Jobs

Ive Marx

More EU citizens work than ever recorded. Twelve million moved into work in just the past four years. That is more than the total population

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