The European Commission will on Wednesday (21 November) launch a public debate on whether the EU needs new labour laws to define a 'worker' in the EU or minimum rights for workers with non-standard contracts.
EU social policy and employment commissioner Vladimir Spidla is to present a green paper - seen by EUobserver - aimed at starting a four-month long discussion on how the bloc's labour laws should reflect the growing variety of work contracts being used in Europe.
The paper ha...
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