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Worker Data Rights under the GDPR and Beyond: Enforcement and Legal Mobilisation Across the EU

Just out: our new publication on the implementation and enforcement of worker data rights under the GDPR and beyond, based on insights from experts in 10 EU countries

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Creator: Cecilie Skjold Wackerhausen / peopleimages.com
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  • AI, Algorithms, & Data

The Future of Quality Jobs and workplace AI: Regulation for Innovation

On 11 December FES Future of Work and UNI Europa on quality jobs in Europe took place in Brussels, with a particular focus on AI and algorithmic management.

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Creator: picture alliance / Shotshop | Sergey Nivens
  • Event

Strengthening Collective Bargaining and Increasing Minimum Wages Across Europe: Next Steps to Achieve the Objectives of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive.

Join us in Brussels on 18 November 2025 for a panel debate concerning the future of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive

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  • Digital Europe

The Authoritarian Stack: How Venture Capital and Authoritarian Tech Are Rewiring Democracy

A FES-funded research project led by Prof. Francesca Bria and a team of data scientists, journalists, and policy experts.

  • Publication

Praktikumsangebot

Das Praktikum richtet sich an Studentinnen und Studenten (Bachelor-Abschluss ist Voraussetzung), die sich für Europapolitik, Digital- und Arbeitspolitik interessieren und die Arbeit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in einem internationalen...

  • Event
  • AI, Algorithms, & Data

Sustaining Original Content in the Age of Generative AI

Brussels 14 October 2025 - a panel debate on how to sustain original content in the age of Generative AI

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Creator: picture alliance / CHROMORANGE | Christian Ohde

Latest Publications

Une vie professionnelle en pleine mutation

Sabanova, Inga | Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Décembre 2025

les femmes et l'automatisation sur le marché du travail ; revue de littérature

Changing working lives: women and automation in the labour market

Sabanova, Inga | Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., December 2025

scoping review

Worker data rights under GDPR and beyond

Gaudio, Giovanni ; Nogarede, Justin | Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, December 2025

enforcement and legal mobilisation across the EU

Gender data

Arora, Payal ; Huang, Weijie | Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, January 2025

what is it and why is it important for the future of AI systems?