Joint statement: How to make quality jobs for everyone?

The EU must advance a Quality Jobs Roadmap that ensures fair wages, good conditions, and fair transitions for all workers, especially those with support needs. It should reflect the realities of every worker, fostering lifelong learning and social fairness as foundations of Europe’s labour market. 

Despite rising participation, inequalities persist: Poor quality jobs remain common for low-qualified workers. One-third of adults with low education face poverty or social exclusion. Over 50 million people, mainly women, older persons, migrants, and persons with disabilities, remain excluded due to structural barriers. 

Building on its input to the recent EU public consultation, RREUSE, together with other EU networks, calls for a Quality Jobs Roadmap that ensures inclusive labour markets and fair conditions for all. The open letter launched by ENSIE calls for the followings: 

• Support inclusive labour markets with targeted pathways and reasonable accommodation. 
• Recognise the social economy and work integration enterprises as drivers of inclusion. 
• Strengthen cooperation across social economy, training providers, and employment services. 
• Ensure civil society and workers with support needs are equal partners in designing and monitoring. 
• Promote democracy at work through dialogue, collective bargaining, and cooperative models. 
• Set standards for quality jobs: supportive environments, upskilling, career prospects, fair conditions, and accessibility.  
• Improve pay for low-skilled workers, ensuring equity and full implementation of EU wage and income directives.