Olivier De Schutter

Olivier De Schutter is United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. A law professor at Université catholique de Louvain and Sciences Po, he was previously special rapporteur on the right to food and a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Olivier De Schutter

Social protection: enhancing benefit take-up

Olivier De Schutter 11th September 2023

Europe’s social-protection schemes are full of holes, affecting the most vulnerable most—but they can be fixed.

To end poverty, invest in children

Olivier De Schutter 20th October 2021

The author presents a report today to the UN General Assembly on the persistence of poverty, following dialogues with people in poverty around the world.

The Global Fund for Social Protection: an idea whose time has come

Olivier De Schutter 17th November 2020

The pandemic has highlighted the fragility of social protection, especially in the developing world. A new global fund is needed—and it’s affordable.

The future of remote work

The 12 chapters collected in this volume provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the impact and the future trajectories of remote work, from the nexus between the location from where work is performed and how it is performed to how remote locations may affect the way work is managed and organised, as well as the applicability of existing legislation. Additional questions concern remote work’s environmental and social impact and the rapidly changing nature of the relationship between work and life.

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Eurofound Talks: does Europe have the skills it needs for a changing economy?

In this episode of the Eurofound Talks podcast, Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound’s research manager, Tina Weber, its senior research manager, Gijs van Houten, and Giovanni Russo, senior expert at CEDEFOP (The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training), about Europe’s skills challenges and what can be done to help workers and businesses adapt to future skills demands.

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The summer issue of the Progressive Post magazine by FEPS is out!

The Special Coverage of this new edition is dedicated to the importance of biodiversity, not only as a good in itself but also for the very existence of humankind. We need a paradigm change in the mostly utilitarian relation humans have with nature.

In this issue, we also look at the hazards of unregulated artificial intelligence, explore the shortcomings of the EU's approach to migration and asylum management, and analyse the social downside of the EU's current ethnically-focused Roma policy.

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WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2022 / 2023

With real wages falling by 4 per cent in 2022, workers in the European Union suffered an unprecedented loss in purchasing power. The reason for this was the rapid increase in consumer prices, behind which nominal wage growth fell significantly. Meanwhile, inflation is no longer driven by energy import prices, but by domestic factors. The increased profit margins of companies are a major reason for persistent inflation. In this difficult environment, trade unions are faced with the challenge of securing real wages—and companies have the responsibility of making their contribution to returning to the path of political stability by reducing excess profits.

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Social protection: enhancing benefit take-up

To end poverty, invest in children

The Global Fund for Social Protection: an idea whose time has come

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