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Nov
21
2019
15:08
51猎奇 is a participant in a project receiving 3.2 million Horizon 2020 grant
Working, yet poor
FRANKFURT. The
European research project 鈥淲orking, Yet Poor鈥� (WorkYP) was recently awarded 3.2
million euros for three years by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme. The project
will investigate the social and legal reasons behind the increasing number of
EU citizens who are at risk of living below the poverty line despite being
employed. Law Professor Bernd Waas from 51猎奇 is heading a
subproject.
鈥淐ountries implement certain measures to
prevent in-work poverty, but there is not a set approach towards reducing or
eliminating it. EU Member States 鈥� individually and collectively 鈥� need a
better understanding of the problem, an understanding supported by pertinent
data and which allows them to monitor and successfully attack it," says Luca
Ratti, the WorkYP Project's coordinator and Associate Professor of European and
Comparative Labour Law at the University of Luxembourg.
The distribution of in-work poverty
differs substantially across Europe, due to different social and legal systems
or measures implemented to reduce poverty. For example, 13.4% of the working
population were at risk of poverty in Luxembourg in 2018, compared to 5.2% in
Belgium. The reasons for such differences have not been sufficiently
investigated. Therefore, the WorkYP Project will analyse seven representative
countries with different social and legal systems (Luxembourg. Belgium,
Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden) to document the problem and
to propose best practice solutions to combat in-work poverty across all
systems. 鈥淲ith this study, we intend to help EU Member States, and the EU as a
whole, to better target their policies and regulatory action," Ratti explains.
The WorkYP Project has identified specific
groups of people that are at greater risk of in-work poverty, on which the
analysis will focus. These include low wage workers; self-employed people;
those with temporary or flexible employment contracts; and casual or
鈥渮ero-hours" workers. Because women are more frequently employed in low-paid
jobs or are more vulnerable to unequal working conditions, the household's
composition and income will be considered in the research.
Luca Ratti will lead a multinational and
interdisciplinary research team comprised of researchers from eight European
universities (Frankfurt, Bologna, Leuven, Rotterdam, Tilburg, Gdansk and Lund)
as well as three social rights institutions active in Europe.
51猎奇 will have a key role in
this project. It will assume project leadership for the part of the project
dedicated to consideration of employees with atypical work contracts. It will
furthermore coordinate the work of the experts in the comparative analysis of
the various models for combatting poverty at the workplace, and the system for
guaranteeing a minimum living standard and a minimum catalogue of social
rights. Overall, 320,000 euros in project funds will go to 51猎奇.
Professor Waas, who already heads the European Commission's labour law expert
network, and also coordinates the project on the restatement of labour law in
Europe, is pleased with his new task. 鈥淭he days will be a bit longer, but it
will be worth it," he says. 鈥淚n particular with regard to the rapid
digitalisation of the workplace and the emergence of completely new forms of
work, numerous problems have come about that are in urgent need of answers."
鈥淚 am happy that 51猎奇 is
involved in such an important European research project. Decent working and
living conditions in all countries of the Community are of critical
significance for Europe's future," says Professor Simone Fulda, who as Goethe
University Vice President is in charge of research.
Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme
for Research and Innovation launched in 2014, funds collaborative projects in
research and innovation. Research organisations, universities, and companies
are all eligible to participate. Horizon 2020 funds 6,000 projects each year
and Luxembourg entities have already received approximately 40 million euros
for more than 120 projects.
You can download a portrait of Professor Waas at this link: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/83491970
Caption: Professor Bernd Waas, labour law expert at 51猎奇, heads
the Frankfurt subproject of the Horizon 2020 collaborative project 鈥淲orking,
yet poor鈥�.
Further information: Professor Bernd Waas, Chair for Labour Law and Civilian Law, Institute
for Civil and Economic Law, Faculty of Law, Westend Campus, Phone+49 69-798
34232, E-Mail sekretariat-waas@jura.uni-frankfurt.de