Social Europe articles on the economy

Digitalisation is a key issue in public services. Workers must have a role, via their unions, to maximise its benefits and minimise its risks.

Impossible hours carved out by apps have often been presented as if self-determined ‘flexibility’ on the part of workers.

Cross-border social dialogue could pave the way to international regulation of a key feature of the 21st-century world of work.

Unless the platform economy becomes embedded in social norms about decent work, it threatens to rewrite society in its own image.

Action is needed at European level to ensure workers enjoy democracy at work, particularly in the context of digitalisation.

The potential benefits of new technologies for workplace health and safety are being vitiated by a profit-focused approach.