On 3 October 2022, The International Organisation of Employers (IOE) and the World Employment Confederation (WEC) released a new report on Diverse forms of work in the platform economy.
It outlines the regulatory context, benefits and challenges of platform work, providing detailed insights and information on how it has become an enduring feature of labour markets.
The new Strategic Issue Paper from the World Employment Confederation (WEC) -Europe, released last August, focuses on the main factors behind the current labour shortages, a growing phenomenon and concern for employers and policymakers across Europe.
It follows the Global Labour Shortage Briefing, published by WEC in the second quarter of 2022, that stressed how job vacancy rates continue to rise in 2022, and in many countries, the numbers are the highest that they have ever been.
The last edition of the Staffing Executive Regulatory Outlook (SERO) presents the result of a survey to executives of staffing national federations around the world on the probability and potential impact of regulatory changes in the industry within the next six months.
In India, Italy and Mexico, the provisions are that regulation changes for staffing industry will have an overall strong and positive impact on the sector, while Belgium, Norway, Germany and Sweden are expected to have the most negative impact.
The World Employment Conference 2022 took place on 31st May in Brussels.
Participants got the opportunity to exchange opinion about the gap between workers' and employers' expectations, which was the announced main theme of the conference.