The fight against in-work poverty: between national laws and EU law
In-work poverty is a challenge for the European Union (EU) and, more generally, for the stability and well-being of societies in EU Member States. The quality of employment and the fight against poverty are interdependent issues that feature prominently in the Europe 2020 strategy, the Sustainable D...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/rdctss, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale
2024
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | In-work poverty is a challenge for the European Union (EU) and, more generally, for the stability and well-being of societies in EU Member States. The quality of employment and the fight against poverty are interdependent issues that feature prominently in the Europe 2020 strategy, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the social commitments announced by the EU at the Porto Summit in 2021 and 2023. This study proposes to analyse from a legal point of view the many issues raised by the emerging phenomenon of in-work poverty and to open up avenues of research in national and EU law. The study draws on the results of three years’ work by a consortium of European universities and research centres brought together under the Working, Yet Poor (« WorkYP ») project, funded by the EU’s Horizon2020 programme for the years 2020-2023, analysing the legal systems of seven European countries (Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Sweden). The project placed at the heart of the analysis certain groups of workers, characterized by their (particularly) vulnerable position (« VUP » - Vulnerable and Under-represented Persons). By adopting this analytical perspective, the study aims to examine the risk of in-work poverty that these groups may face and the obstacles to their protection. This should make it possible to devise possible ways to combat in-work poverty from a multilevel regulatory perspective. |
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