Eurofound produce revealing report on the job structure during the crisis
10/10/2011
Eurofound - the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions - produced a report "Shifts in the job structure in Europe during the Great Recession" which basically found that:
- employment continued to grow in top-paying jobs, largely in knowledge-intensive services and business services.
- sharp losses in medium-paying jobs in construction and manufacturing led to a shrinking of employment in the middle of the wage spectrum.
- More jobs were lost to men than to women and employment levels of older workers grew while those of younger workers declined
The exectuive summary is available here in 26 languages
The full report is available here.
For more secure employment, against precarious work
The EMF Collective Bargaining Policy Conference 2009 launched the 2nd Common Demand:
“For more secure employment, against precarious work”,
which will be included in the collective bargaining demands of all its 75 affiliated trade unions and in future collective bargaining rounds throughout Europe over the next four years.
