{"id":3737,"date":"2020-12-14T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2023-08-10T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:33:43","slug":"covid-19-and-the-world-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/covid-19-and-the-world-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 and The World of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_432d3f53\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4 class=\"title\"><em><strong>Covid-19 and the world of work: the impact of a pandemic<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A virus is haunting Europe. And it could strike again. This year\u2019s 20th anniversary issue of our flagship publication\u00a0<em>Benchmarking Working Europe<\/em>\u00a0brings to a growing audience of trade unionists, industrial relations specialists and policymakers a simple warning: beside SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the Covid-19 pandemic and thrown Europe\u2019s economies into a sudden and profound recession, \u2018austerity\u2019 is the other nefarious agent from which workers, and Europe as a whole, need to be protected in the challenging months and years ahead. At this point in time, a new wave of austerity could not only undermine the post-Covid recovery, but it could also fundamentally undermine the European social and economic integration project.<\/p>\n<p>It is essential to note from the outset that there are enough signs to justify some cautious optimism about the future trajectory of the present crisis. Just as the scientific community appears to be on the verge of producing one or more effective and affordable vaccines that could generate widespread immunity against SARS-CoV-2, it is also clear that policymakers, at both national and European levels, are now approaching this challenging juncture in a way that departs from the austerity-driven responses deployed a decade ago, in the aftermath of the previous crisis (Sabato and Mandelli 2021). It is particularly apt for the 20th anniversary issue of Benchmarking, a publication that has allowed the ETUI and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/usf\/international\/\">ETUC<\/a>\u00a0to contribute to key European debates (Daly et al. 2020) on the basis of fact-based analysis, to set out our case for a socially responsive and ecologically sustainable road out of the Covid-19 crisis. In doing so, we will explore some of the key (mis)steps in the way Europe responded to the previous crisis so as to further emphasise the paradigm change that the response to the current crisis necessitates.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full ETUI report on \u201cCOVID-19 and the world of work: the impact of a pandemic\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etui.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-12\/09%20ETU%20BM2020%20FULL.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_large\"><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium with_line width_50 thick_3 style_solid color_primary align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 and the world of work: the impact of a pandemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,69,68],"tags":[],"dossier-special":[],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-special-report","category-special-report","category-working-conditions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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