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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights

TA-10-2025-0039 · P10_TA(2025)0039 · PE765.150

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Parliament's resolution on restructuring calls for protecting jobs and workers' rights during green and digital transitions, stressing social dialogue, collective bargaining, and early anticipation of change. It urges the Commission and member states to support reskilling, prevent forced redundancies, and ensure fair treatment, including for subcontracted workers.

Key points

  1. Underlines the European Pillar of Social Rights and calls for an ambitious European industrial policy with investment to deliver quality jobs and meet climate targets.
  2. Welcomes a European Competitiveness Fund and calls for a common investment instrument and reinforced SURE to support short-time work and temporarily laid-off workers.
  3. Calls on the Commission to present a quality jobs roadmap and involve social partners in the clean industrial deal.
  4. Calls for trade agreements to include labour clauses in line with ILO standards.
  5. Urges the Commission to promote collective bargaining in public procurement and exclude non-compliant operators from tenders and EU funding.
  6. Calls for investments in vital sectors to respect workers' rights and strengthen community development.
  7. Invites the Commission to monitor restructuring trends using the European Restructuring Monitor and the EU Fair Transition Observatory.
  8. Stresses that restructuring must respect workers' rights and calls for early anticipation and involvement of workers' representatives.
  9. Calls for support to companies and workers indirectly impacted by restructuring in supply chains.
  10. Urges addressing skills shortages and improving recognition of skills across member states.
  11. Deplores violations of collective bargaining and information rights; calls for safeguards and penalties for non-compliance.
  12. Calls for a framework directive on subcontracting chains and labour intermediaries to ensure decent working conditions and joint liability.

Who is affected

  • Workers and trade unions: entitled to information, consultation, and collective bargaining during restructuring.
  • Companies, especially SMEs: must respect workers' rights and may face exclusion from public tenders and EU funding if non-compliant.
  • Subcontracted workers: to be protected by a proposed framework directive on subcontracting chains.

Figures and deadlines

  • 40 % of European trade unions report having sufficient resources to represent workers effectively.
  • Trade union representatives trained in restructuring negotiations are 50 % more effective in preserving jobs.
  • SURE saved 40 million jobs.

Legal basis: Articles 151 and 153 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union