Federazione Autonoma Bancari Italiani
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UNI Europa, Ă–GB and GPA-djp issue declaration on D
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MEP Regner added: ‘I welcome this declaration that, together with UNI Europa’s critical assessment of the Digital Single Market Package, calls on the European Commission to ensure a broader focus in its digital agenda. Digitalisation has the potential to empower European citizens, to foster cohesion and to be inclusive of the needs, rights and ambitions of all Europeans – and the EU must ensure such potentials are realised.’
UNI Europa, ÖGB, and GPA-djp have identified the following principles and considerations that need to be taken into account:
- Digital technology must serve to empower workers and enrich work
- A digital world of work requires high standards for the protection of personal employee data
- Workers’ rights and social protection for all in the digital age
- Education and training systems fit for the digital age
- Reinforcing the European social model in the face of digital change
Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary of UNI Europa said: ‘ÖGB, GPA-djp and UNI Europa are convinced that a digital Europe can be a better Europe – a Europe in which growth brings higher quality jobs and promotes more social justice. But the benefits of digitalisation will not be reaped automatically. Targeted and balanced policies are called for to tap into the economic and social potentials the digital revolution entails.’
The declaration as well as UNI Europa’s critical assessment of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market Package will be launched at tonight’s public panel debate entitled
Digitalisation and its economic and social potentials:
15 September 2015, 18:00h
Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU
30, Avenue de Cortenbergh, 1040 Brussels