This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Massimo Giordano, Senior Partner and Managing Partner for Europe, McKinsey & Company, Marie Christine Padberg, Partner and Global Leader, McKinsey & Company Talent Attraction Europe is often regarded as a land of opportunity. In global research on social mobility – […]Why Europe’s employers can – and should – do more to improve social mobility
March 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Massimo Giordano, Senior Partner and Managing Partner for Europe, McKinsey & Company, Marie Christine Padberg, Partner and Global Leader, McKinsey & Company Talent Attraction Europe is often regarded as a land of opportunity. In global research on social mobility – […]How employers can unlock the potential of the longevity economy
January 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Graham Pearce, Senior Partner, Global Defined Benefit Segment Leader, Mercer, Lin Shi, Project Fellow, Longevity Economy, World Economic Forum, Rich Nuzum, Executive Director, Investments, Global Chief Investment Strategist, Mercer People are living longer than prior generations, and birth rates in most […]Managers are struggling. How can employers help them adapt and survive?
October 13, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Valérie Beaulieu-James, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, The Adecco Group It’s been a turbulent three years for employers. The pandemic has been a uncompromising period of enforced social distancing, deep-cleaning, shutdowns, a new home-working culture, livestream meetings, re-opening, […]Mental health: With ‘end in sight’ for the pandemic, what do employers need to know?
September 20, 2022 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Juliet Masiga, Digital Editor, World Economic Forum The sun is setting on the work-from-home golden hour. The World Health Organization just announced that the ‘end is in sight’ for the pandemic, but employers around the world have been […]Work can be better post-COVID-19. Here’s what employers need to know
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Stephen Ratcliffe, Partner, Employment & Compensation, Baker McKenzie & Julia Wilson, Partner, Employment & Data Protection, Baker McKenzie Returning to a physical workplace post-COVID-19 brings a myriad of legal, employee and public relations complexities for businesses;To ensure successful […]5 rules for making employers and employees trust each other again
January 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Tim Ryan, Senior Partner and Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers US The debate about the future of work has largely focused on jobs – what they will look like, the decline of well-paid jobs for lower skilled workers, and how jobs will […]Draghi tells the EU Parliament his relaxed policies are here to stay
March 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The too slow or non existing pace of wage increases is the main reason for the non revival of inflation in Eurozone. This is what Mario Draghi told the Economic Committee of the European Parliament last Monday. He added that this is why the economic slack in the euro area may be larger than we […]The Commission tries to stop the ‘party’ with the structural funds
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In a long awaited move, the European Commission boosts the role of trade unions, the employers’ organisations and the non-governmental organisations of civil society in allocating and monitoring the spending of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). What is at stake relates to the resources bestowed by the European Union to the European Regional […]The EU Commission does nothing about the food retailing oligopoly
February 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
The theoretically most competitive of all EU markets, namely the large food retailing business, is accused by its suppliers, regrouped in the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) of operating a real oligopoly. Despite this very important development, which poses an issue with ground-breaking repercussions on the way our ‘free competition’ economies operate, the European […]Social Committee teaches Van Rompuy a lesson
January 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
During this months’ European Economic and Social Committee’s plenary session, EU Council president Herman Van Rompuy and EESC members held a very important debate on the current guidelines of the European Council and future efforts to reinforce the social dimension of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Obviously the EESC members wanted to cover the […]
