European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) is a standing committee of the European Parliament. It is responsible for employment policy and all aspects of social policy, including working conditions, workers' rights, social security, social inclusion, social protection, labour mobility, vocational training, social dialogue and health and safety at work.

Responsibilities

The committee is responsible for employment policy and for the coordination of employment policies among the member states. It also deals with working conditions, social policy and social protection, measures to prevent discrimination in employment and the labour market, and the free movement of workers and pensioners.

Its remit includes:

employment policy and the coordination of employment policies among the member states; working conditions, including health and safety at work; social policy, social protection and social inclusion; workers' rights, information and consultation, and participation in company decision-making; vocational training and professional qualifications; the free movement of workers and pensioners; social dialogue and relations with trade unions and employers' organisations; measures to prevent discrimination in the workplace and labour market, except discrimination based on sex; and relations with EU agencies working in employment and social policy, including the European Labour Authority, Eurofound, EU-OSHA and Cedefop.

The committee also scrutinises EU initiatives on minimum wages, platform work, working time, labour mobility, skills, poverty reduction and implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights.

Chairs

The following table lists the chairs of the committee since 2009.

Name Political group Member state Took office Left office Pervenche Berès S&D France 16 July 2009 30 June 2014 Thomas Händel GUE/NGL Germany 7 July 2014 30 June 2019 Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová ECR Slovakia 18 July 2019 18 June 2021 Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová Renew Europe Slovakia 18 June 2021 24 January 2022 Dragoș Pîslaru Renew Europe Romania 24 January 2022 23 July 2024 Li Andersson The Left Finland 23 July 2024 Incumbent

Members

10th Parliament, 2024–2029

The committee currently consists of 59 full members. Its current composition is shown below, with the chair and vice-chairs indicated in italics.

European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Renew Europe Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Poland, Vice-Chair Maravillas Abadía Jover, Spain Pascal Arimont, Belgium Andrzej Buła, Poland David Casa, Malta Henrik Dahl, Denmark Gheorghe Falcă, Romania Niels Geuking, Germany Sérgio Humberto, Portugal Martine Kemp, Luxembourg Miriam Lexmann, Slovakia Eleonora Meleti, Greece Letizia Moratti, Italy Dennis Radtke, Germany Liesbet Sommen, Belgium Romana Tomc, Slovenia Johan Danielsson, Sweden, Vice-Chair Marc Angel, Luxembourg Gabriele Bischoff, Germany Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Lithuania Estelle Ceulemans, Belgium Isilda Gomes, Portugal Alícia Homs Ginel, Spain Marit Maij, Netherlands Idoia Mendia, Spain Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Ireland Raffaele Topo, Italy Marianne Vind, Denmark Georgiana Teodorescu, Romania, Vice-Chair Nikola Bartůšek, Czechia Elena Donazzan, Italy Chiara Gemma, Italy Marlena Maląg, Poland Francesco Torselli, Italy Mariateresa Vivaldini, Italy Grégory Allione, France Elisabetta Gualmini, Italy Hristo Petrov, Bulgaria Jana Toom, Estonia Brigitte van den Berg, Netherlands Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Marie Dauchy, France Mélanie Disdier, France Gerald Hauser, Austria Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Spain Pál Szekeres, Hungary Séverine Werbrouck, France Katrin Langensiepen, Germany, Vice-Chair Maria Ohisalo, Finland Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Denmark Nela Riehl, Germany Li Andersson, Finland, Chair Konstantinos Arvanitis, Greece Leïla Chaibi, France Per Clausen, Denmark João Oliveira, Portugal Petr Bystron, Germany Petar Volgin, Bulgaria Non-Inscrits Branislav Ondruš, Slovakia Jan-Peter Warnke, Germany

Substitute members

The committee's substitute members are listed below.

European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Renew Europe Borys Budka, Poland Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Spain Regina Doherty, Ireland Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Spain Loukas Fourlas, Cyprus Norbert Herhammer, Germany Arba Kokalari, Sweden Isabelle Le Callennec, France Jeroen Lenaers, Netherlands Giusi Princi, Italy Jörgen Warborn, Sweden Viktor Weisz, Hungary Angelika Winzig, Austria Alex Agius Saliba, Malta Vivien Costanzo, Germany Klára Dobrev, Hungary Romana Jerković, Croatia Pierfrancesco Maran, Italy Nora Mebarek, France Evelyn Regner, Austria Birgit Sippel, Germany Cecilia Strada, Italy Galato Alexandraki, Greece Geadis Geadi, Cyprus Lara Magoni, Italy Mario Mantovani, Italy Nicola Procaccini, Italy Kosma Złotowski, Poland Valérie Devaux, France Laurence Farreng, France Martin Hojsík, Slovakia Irena Joveva, Slovenia Eugen Tomac, Romania Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Angéline Furet, France Jaroslav Knot, Czechia Gilles Pennelle, France Gordan Bosanac, Croatia Sara Matthieu, Belgium Benedetta Scuderi, Italy Kim van Sparrentak, Netherlands Özlem Demirel, Germany Kathleen Funchion, Ireland Estrella Galán, Spain Rudi Kennes, Belgium Catarina Martins, Portugal René Aust, Germany Non-Inscrits Ľuboš Blaha, Slovakia Maria Zacharia, Greece

Research support

The committee's work is supported by the research services of the European Parliament. These services provide studies, briefings and other analyses concerning employment, working conditions, social protection, labour mobility, skills, health and safety at work and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights.

Publications prepared for the committee are made available through its online database of supporting analyses and through the European Parliament's Think Tank.

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