Back to Work: Increasing Employment amidst Skills and Labour Shortages

Skills and labour shortages are a topic of growing predominance and concern for employers and policymakers across Europe. They risk hampering economic growth and job creation while also limiting labour market participation.

As we got back to work after the summer break, the World Employment Confederation-Europe invited EU stakeholders to get together and gear up for the second half of the mandate of the current European Commission.

On 21 September, we heard from Joost Korte, Director General of DG Employment and Social Affairs at the European Commission, who addressed the current and upcoming EU employment and social affairs agenda. Our Managing Director Denis Pennel presented labour market analysis and policy recommendations recently developed by the private employment services industry in its Strategic Issue Paper “Making better matches. How the private employment services industry helps to reduce labour and skills shortages in Europe.”