Advancing fair and decent work for diverse forms of employment

While the labor market transformation has been underway for decades, rapid technological advancements and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, expedited the trend, compelling policy makers around the EU Member States to devise adequate responses.

A comprehensive outlook of diverse forms of work and the road towards ensuring fair and decent working conditions requires input from various stakeholders, such as companies, startups, unions, research institutions, and advocacy groups. To tackle the complexities of the challenges that lie ahead, Reshaping Work facilitated a multistakeholder dialogue tackling four key topic areas of paramount relevance for diverse workers: (1) Access to social protection; (2) Workers’ representation; (3) Algorithmic management and transparency; and (4) Re-skilling, up-skilling, and micro-credentials.

The report presents the outcome of twelve roundtable discussions facilitated by the Reshaping Work Dialogue project, of which Zurich Insurance Group is a key contributor, supported by a systematic literature review of the topic and knowledge of independent experts that partook in writing and reviewing this report.

Reshaping Work is committed to continuing to gather a multitude of stakeholders in order to provide timely and relevant information on topics concerning diverse forms of work by promoting principles of diversity and inclusion.

Article and report were written by: Jovana Karanovic, Jelena Sapic and Zachary Kilhoffer as part of the Reshaping Work project. The primary objective of the project is to create a permanent knowledge interlocutor where parties with the stake in the debate on the future of work can engage in a constructive dialogue, exchange views, negotiate positions, and propose new solutions.

Reshaping Work is a non-profit initiative headquartered in Amsterdam, which brings different stakeholders together to discuss the future of work and ways to shape it. Reshaping Work projects and conferences discuss the most prominent issues in regard to the future of work, the platform economy and digital innovations. The Dialogue Project, of which Zurich Insurance Group is a key contributor, is a collaborative effort that gathers incumbent players, scale ups, start-ups, researcher institutes, trade unions, advocacy groups, and independent experts to discuss issues related to the future of work. To learn more about Reshaping Work please visit www.reshapingwork.net.

Originally published on https://dialogue.reshapingwork.net/reshaping-work-2022-report/

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