Social Agenda Issue 52 - EN

LABOUR LAW Posted workers directive revised ................................................................................... 6 SOCIAL AFFAIRS Pensions – Towards more adequacy............................................................................ 8 EMPLOYMENT Extending the safety net ................................................................................................... 11 SPECIAL FEATURE 2021-2027 – A plus for the European Social Fund.............................................. 14 “We are investing €140 billion in people”.................................................................. 16 ECONOMIC POLICY COORDINATION Social investment breakthrough .................................................................................... 24 OTHER VOICES Erwan, ship building supervisor ...................................................................................... 26 INTERVIEW From Trade to Employment: Joost Korte, Director General, Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission.............................................. 27 Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion come under the remit of European Commissioner Marianne Thyssen. The website of Commissioner Thyssen: ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/ thyssen_en The home page of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion: ec.europa.eu/social The website of the European Social Fund: ec.europa.eu/esf A magazine providing information on European employment and social policies, Social Agenda is published four times a year in English, French and German by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. Editor in chief: Joost Korte, Director-General, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion – European Commission, B-1049 Brussels. Subscription is free on request – please fill in the registration form available at: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main. jsp?catId=740&langId=en Notice: Neither the European Commission, nor any person acting on its behalf, may be held responsible for the use to which information contained in this publication may be put, or for any errors which, despite careful preparation and checking, may appear. © European Union, 2018 Non-commercial reproduction authorised, subject to acknowledgement of the source. For any use or reproduction of photos which are not under European Union copyright, permission must be sought directly from the copyright holder(s). © Cover: Shutterstock, 2018 Inside this issue... 2 / SOC I A L AG E NDA / J U LY 2 0 1 8