TUAC - TRADE UNION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE OECD

15/07/2013

• support aggregate demand and employment in view of the serious slowdown in growth;

• put an immediate halt to austerity measures and corresponding cuts in public spending in areas that provide social support and facilitate productive economic activity;

• invest in infrastructure, education and quality public services including in the care economy;

• support the transition to a low-carbon economy;

• counter the erosion of tax bases and profit shifting by multinationals and achieve reform of tax systems, and support this by shifting taxation from employment to environmentally damaging and non-productive activities;

• ensure that revenue is not lost through tax havens by requiring automatic exchange of information and country by country reporting;

• maintain and increase expenditure on active labour market programmes and implement schemes to promote job retention and job sharing during the crisis;

• cooperate with the social partners to scale up apprenticeships and training programmes and put in place a "Jobs Guarantee" for young people;

• reverse the rise in income inequality by strengthening collective bargaining and set robust minimum wages; avoid a further deterioration of gender gaps in employment and income levels;

• improve the provision of affordable finance to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and facilitate their insertion into global value chains, while ensuring that they can provide decent work to their employees;

• support the implementation of a global social protection floor and the ratification of the ILO Conventions on social security;

• establish employment targets or indicators to be used in the G20 Mutual Assessment Process for "Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth";

• commission the G20 Employment Task Force with a permanent mandate to carry out regular monitoring of the implementation of past agreements.