Are you 50-something and wondering if your better working days are behind you? EU countries are making efforts to keep older people in the workforce, showing that age shouldn’t be a barrier to a long, fulfilling career.
Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
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This year’ European Semester Autumn Package highlights how social partners play a crucial role in shaping policies, with an emphasis on improving job quality.
This year’ European Semester Autumn Package highlights how social partners play a crucial role in shaping policies, with an emphasis on improving job quality.
The latest episode of PESPod – the podcast of the European Network of Public Employment Services (PES Network) – explores how Public Employment Services (PES) can promote fair and ethical recruitment of workers from outside the European Union.
The European Commission has launched the Skills Guarantee to support workers and businesses and tackle labour shortages in strategic and growing sectors.
The European Commission has adopted the 2026 European Semester Autumn Package setting out economic and employment policy priorities to boost competitiveness.
The 2025 Annual Report of the Social Protection Committee reports a general improvement in 2024 in the social situation in the EU, with a reduction of just over 1 million in the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and of 0.5 million for children.
The European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA) has launched a new, user-friendly toolkit to support policymakers, vocational education and training (VET) providers, companies, and public employment services in fostering adult apprenticeships.
On 4-5 November, the EQAVET Network Members and additional stakeholders explored how quality assurance can support the advancement of basic skills in VET through five presentations and two group discussions.
The age of digital everything has swept into the workplace, bringing with it our newest friend-foe: AI, the one we love to hate. Is it here to help us or complicate our working lives?
