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Response to Micro-credentials
18 Mar 2021
The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations find that micro-credentials to certify the outcomes of short courses and other short learning experiences can become a very useable tool in the continuing need to educate and qualify the highly skilled part of the workforce. The need for shorter learning activities is growing because of the rapid changes in the labor market – and the need for mutually recognized tools for validating these activities are equally growing. The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations therefore find the EU initiative in this field positive and welcome the possibility to give feedback.
In Denmark, the professionals have relatively good opportunities for life-long learning through diploma- and masterprogrammes. But as an important supplement to these opportunities, we are still working to build a satisfying supply of more specialized shorter courses aimed to help our members getting their competences up to date in new areas such as climate changes, environment, automation, and digitalization. And short courses are a very important way to secure lifelong learning in new areas – hence The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations find that a commonly recognized tool as micro-credentials will be very welcome.
We will follow the next part of the process with interest. It is very important that the tool will be constructed and implemented in a way that creates transparency and trust towards micro-credentials and thus make it easier to validate the more informal part of competences nationally and across borders.
Read full responseResponse to Collective bargaining agreements for self-employed – scope of application EU competition rules
3 Feb 2021
While standard work remains the dominant form of employment a diversity of new forms of employment is and will be part of a future labour market. New forms of employment entail the potential of outsourcing of employer responsibilities to staff. To ensure a well-functioning labour markets it is important to strike a right balance between flexibility and protection.
Workers in new employment forms often have unclear rights and entitlements in relation for working conditions, minimum pay, health and safety standards, and access to representation. Representation and the provision of a collective voice is particularly important to workers in these new forms of employment. Therefore, the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations supports the European Commissions’ initiative to ensure that EU competition law does not stand in the way of collective bargaining by those who need it to improve working conditions.
As new forms of employment cover a diversity of many different employment relationships with similar challenges and risks, we would like to recommend proceeding with a European regulation covering option 4 “All solo self-employed providing their own labour through digital labour platforms or to professional customers of any size”
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