Evaluation Questions 2

If a person is protected by national labour law, he or she has the status of a worker.

Information and consultation are intended to safeguard the particular interests of the employer.

Flexibility should help employers to adapt to economic changes.

Innovative ways of working should be encouraged to ensure high quality working conditions.

Directive (EU) 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union strengthens the rights and social protection of workers in traditional employment relationships, while aiming to maintain the adaptability of the labour market.

The employer is not obliged to treat all persons equally, in the sense that he or she does not have to guarantee fixed-term workers the same employment conditions as permanent workers with permanent contracts.

An employer may treat part-time workers differently for the very reason that the employment is part-time.

Can the parties to an employment contract freely determine the duration of work and benefit from the transition to a certain type of work, full-time or part-time, depending on the needs and situation of the company?

Temporary agency work is where the temporary agency concludes, in accordance with national law, employment contracts or employment relationships with temporary agency workers for the purpose of assigning them to user undertakings to work there on a temporary basis under the supervision and direction of those undertakings.

The European Pillar of Social Rights denies the development of self-employment as contrary to the right to provide adequate protection for all workers.