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😵‍💫Social partners @businesseurope.bsky.social & @etuc-ces.bsky.social are miles apart in @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s “quality jobs” consultation.

Agree on revising workplace & display directives
then diverge.

ETUC wants 10+ new laws, no dialogue on them; BusinessEurope wary but open to talks.

👏 Former Swedish commissioner @ylvajohansson.se appointed to lead the EU’s new European Skills High-Level Board

— launched by Commissioner @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social under the ‘Union of Skills’ to boost Europe’s workforce and competitiveness!

⭐@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's staff is launching a new expert group to drive the implementation of the revised European Works Council Directive.

Three focused meetings this spring will help strengthen information, consultation & worker participation across the EU.

#EWC #SocialEurope

♦️@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social promised in November a “new action plan” for the European Pillar of Social Rights.

Roxana now confirms: no new plan — just a review of the 2021 one.

Smart pragmatism or a sign of fading ambition?

Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna outlined the @cy2026eu.bsky.social priorities @eesc.bsky.social 🗣️championing stronger autonomy & strategic resilience as we navigate an increasingly evolving geopolitical world. 🌍🇨🇾

🤔Blow to Mercosur, or just a bump in the road? 🇪🇺⚖️

A narrow majority in the European Parliament has voted to send the EU–Mercosur trade deal to the EU’s top court for a legality check.

A cross‑party move that now throws the landmark agreement into serious uncertainty.

ℹ️ The @eppgroup.bsky.social voted down the explicit call for a Directive on Just Transitions.

The new EP’s unwillingness to call for legislation on #SocialEurope follows its pre-Christmas vote on rules for AI at work.

The ball is now in @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s court.

Next week, the EP votes on a request to @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social to propose a Just Transition Directive on working conditions, inclusion, consultation & health & safety.

Will the EP endorse a clear call for legislation, or again stop short of it, as it did on algo. management?

ℹ️Today, Swedish Minister @ninalarsson.bsky.social unveiled draft law to implement the EU #PayTransparency directive.

Employers will have to share starting salaries, report gender pay gaps or face fines.

+ Stronger rights for workers to challenge discrimination.

www.regeringen.se/contentasset...

Remember @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's mobility package, promised for June?

Commission staff aren’t ready to vouch for it.

Adoption in Q3 is still “on the table”… for now. 👀

🆕Sweden’s official inquiry on implementing the EU #PlatformWork Directive is complete & now in the hands of Minister Britz!

The proposal: a new law to regulate rights & obligations for platform companies, workers, self-employed, & trade unions.

www.regeringen.se/contentasset...

Big changes for fair EU mobility. By 2026 @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social will propose:

✅ European Social Security Pass
✅ Stronger European Labour Authority
✅ Skills portability across borders

Plus address remote work, 3rd country postings, simpler temp. service provision & work ID-cards.

On Feb 12, EU leaders meet at Alden Biesen Castle for a strategic summit on boosting Europe’s competitiveness. “We must unlock the full potential of the single market,” says @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu.

#EUCompetitiveness #SingleMarket

🆕Breaking: MEPs have just demanded new EU rules to protect workers from algorithmic management.

No hiring by algorithms, full transparency on data use, & a ban on tracking emotions & off-duty data.

@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social must respond within 3 months!

At noon today, MEPs vote on a report urging EU legislation on digitalisation, AI & algorithmic management at work, providing input to @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's Quality Jobs Act due by end-2026.

📢 Big news for workers’ rights! The revised EWC Directive (EU 2025/2450) is now official.

✅ Transpose by 1 Jan 2028

✅ Apply all parts by 2 Jan 2029

Full text in all languages 👉

eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2025...

Leaked ⭐EU priorities for 2026:

✅ 28th Regime
🚗 Car Package
💊 Critical Med. Act
🏠 Affordable Housing Plan
⚡ Grids Package
🤝 Fair Labour Mobility Pkg.
💶 MFF sectoral prop.
🛂 Return Regulation
💰 SIU

🚍Omnibus:
📲 Digital & AI
🔐 Cybersec. & Data
🧪 Chemicals
🛡️ Defence

CSDDD/CSRD deal in a nutshell:

📌Capped at 5,000+ employees

📌Penalties up to 3% global turnover

📌Climate transition plans scrapped

📌No harmonised civil liability

📌CSDDD pushed back to 2029

📌CSRD stays at 1,000+ employees

📌3rd country CSRD threshold at €450M turnover

👏 Sverige behåller förstaplatsen i EU:s jämställdhetsindex!

👏 Spot on, @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social!

The #QualityJobsRoadmap is right to emphazise social dialogue!

- Support social dialogue

- Collective agreements = better conditions, flexibility & less burden

- Contractual freedom for social partners is a must

- Respecting national systems

🗳️Just voted in the @eesc.bsky.social for opinions that strengthen a fairer Single Market, recognize nuclear as one of several key fossil-free energy sources, & guard against competition distortions in the EU’s proposed competitiveness fund!

👋 @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social has just launched the 1st-stage consultation on the upcoming Quality Jobs Act.

📢 EU social partners are invited to share their views by 29 Jan 2026 on:

🤖 AI at work
🦺 OSH
🔗 Subcontracting
🌱 Just transition
🛠️ Enforcement
🤝 Role of social partners

Today’s much-anticipated presentation of @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's Quality Jobs Roadmap — after a tough fight to get it on the December agenda — has been pushed back.

It will now be unveiled tomorrow morning (Thursday), alongside the launch of a new consultation.

Stay tuned. 🚀

Recommendation on the European Commission’s compliance with ‘Better Regulation’ rules and other procedural requirements in preparing legislative proposals that it considered to be urgent (983/2025/MAS... The three cases concern how the European Commission applied its ‘Better Regulation’ rules and other procedural requirements when preparing legislative pro...

🗨️ The @ombudsman.europa.eu calls out @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu for rushing the ‘Omnibus I’ reform of the EU’s #CS3D corporate sustainability law.

Urgency is no excuse for bad law-making!

Today @eesc.bsky.social I backed a draft opinion to secure a minimum allocation for capacity-building of social partners in the next European Social Fund, correcting @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s removal of the current ring-fencing for social dialogue! ✊🇪🇺

🤔 @businesseurope.bsky.social champions “contractual freedom” to fight the EU’s 30-day payment term proposal — yet it’s also pushing for a CSRD value-chain cap that limits what big firms can ask of suppliers.

So… how fundamental is that “freedom” really?

#LatePayments #CSRD #omnibus

💸The Commission has just launched a new pension package, drawing inspiration from countries like Sweden, with the aim of increasing automatic enrolment in workplace pensions, reducing fees, and making pension plans simpler and more affordable!

EU budget support for Sweden to help laid-off workers | News | European Parliament The Budgets Committee votes for EU funding to assist 5,800 former employees at electric-vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt AB in Sweden.

👏Europaparlamentets budgetutskott har idag godkänt Sveriges ansökan om EU-stöd till de som drabbats av uppsägningarna på Northvolt!

Sveriges största fackförbund @unionen.bsky.social var tidigt ute & krävde stöd!💚

www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

ℹ️The Council @eu2025dk.bsky.social is set to greenlight its mandate on @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's revised EGF rules on 1 Dec, paving the way for talks with the EP once @liesbetsommen.bsky.social gets a mandate.

Council: earlier support eligibility, no COM self-approval, +scrutiny & €4M cap/case.

🔻The Court of Justice of the EU has upheld the Directive on MinimumWages but annulled parts of Article 5.

The ECJ found that certain provisions on wage adequacy criteria and indexation mechanisms interfered directly with pay, exceeding the EU’s powers under the Treaties!