Expand the affordable housing stock, namely the social housing stock, through renovations, rent control measures and adequate investment in social and affordable housing. Provide substantial support to social and solidarity economy actors through funding and privileged access to public procurement, in the light of their essential role in ensuring access to affordable housing. The European Affordable Housing Plan should ambitiously fulfil these objectives.
Building on the Directive and the Golden Rule, the Quality Jobs Roadmap and Act should spearhead the development of strategies and measures supporting just transitions in sensitive industrial sectors, such as retraining opportunities during paid working hours, the creation of fair labour practices, including sustainable supply chains in the construction sector and limiting subcontracting in […]
The Just Transition Directive or the Quality Jobs Act should include a ‘Quality Job Golden Rule’ with which all EU transition policies and any form of public support at national and EU levels must comply. This rule should set out a series of obligations, such as the guarantee of wages adjusted to changing living costs, […]
As part of the announced Quality Jobs Roadmap, the Commission should propose a Directive for a Just Transition in the world of work through the anticipation and management of change. This Directive should require companies, Member States, and local authorities to take concerted measures ensuring quality jobs in industrial transitions, and to integrate them into […]
