Thomas
@setomwork.bsky.social
International Secretary for EU Affairs @unionen.bsky.social
Sweden’s largest trade union and the largest white-collar union in the world.
Member of the @eesc.bsky.social
Sweden’s largest trade union and the largest white-collar union in the world.
Member of the @eesc.bsky.social
♦️@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social promised in November a “new action plan” for the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Roxana now confirms: no new plan — just a review of the 2021 one.
Smart pragmatism or a sign of fading ambition?
Roxana now confirms: no new plan — just a review of the 2021 one.
Smart pragmatism or a sign of fading ambition?
January 23, 2026 at 12:47 PM
♦️@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social promised in November a “new action plan” for the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Roxana now confirms: no new plan — just a review of the 2021 one.
Smart pragmatism or a sign of fading ambition?
Roxana now confirms: no new plan — just a review of the 2021 one.
Smart pragmatism or a sign of fading ambition?
Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna outlined the @cy2026eu.bsky.social priorities @eesc.bsky.social 🗣️championing stronger autonomy & strategic resilience as we navigate an increasingly evolving geopolitical world. 🌍🇨🇾
January 22, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna outlined the @cy2026eu.bsky.social priorities @eesc.bsky.social 🗣️championing stronger autonomy & strategic resilience as we navigate an increasingly evolving geopolitical world. 🌍🇨🇾
🤔Blow to Mercosur, or just a bump in the road? 🇪🇺⚖️
A narrow majority in the European Parliament has voted to send the EU–Mercosur trade deal to the EU’s top court for a legality check.
A cross‑party move that now throws the landmark agreement into serious uncertainty.
A narrow majority in the European Parliament has voted to send the EU–Mercosur trade deal to the EU’s top court for a legality check.
A cross‑party move that now throws the landmark agreement into serious uncertainty.
January 21, 2026 at 12:04 PM
🤔Blow to Mercosur, or just a bump in the road? 🇪🇺⚖️
A narrow majority in the European Parliament has voted to send the EU–Mercosur trade deal to the EU’s top court for a legality check.
A cross‑party move that now throws the landmark agreement into serious uncertainty.
A narrow majority in the European Parliament has voted to send the EU–Mercosur trade deal to the EU’s top court for a legality check.
A cross‑party move that now throws the landmark agreement into serious uncertainty.
ℹ️ The @eppgroup.bsky.social voted down the explicit call for a Directive on Just Transitions.
The new EP’s unwillingness to call for legislation on #SocialEurope follows its pre-Christmas vote on rules for AI at work.
The ball is now in @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s court.
The new EP’s unwillingness to call for legislation on #SocialEurope follows its pre-Christmas vote on rules for AI at work.
The ball is now in @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s court.
January 21, 2026 at 11:52 AM
ℹ️ The @eppgroup.bsky.social voted down the explicit call for a Directive on Just Transitions.
The new EP’s unwillingness to call for legislation on #SocialEurope follows its pre-Christmas vote on rules for AI at work.
The ball is now in @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s court.
The new EP’s unwillingness to call for legislation on #SocialEurope follows its pre-Christmas vote on rules for AI at work.
The ball is now in @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s court.
Next week, the EP votes on a request to @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social to propose a Just Transition Directive on working conditions, inclusion, consultation & health & safety.
Will the EP endorse a clear call for legislation, or again stop short of it, as it did on algo. management?
Will the EP endorse a clear call for legislation, or again stop short of it, as it did on algo. management?
January 16, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Next week, the EP votes on a request to @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social to propose a Just Transition Directive on working conditions, inclusion, consultation & health & safety.
Will the EP endorse a clear call for legislation, or again stop short of it, as it did on algo. management?
Will the EP endorse a clear call for legislation, or again stop short of it, as it did on algo. management?
ℹ️Today, Swedish Minister @ninalarsson.bsky.social unveiled draft law to implement the EU #PayTransparency directive.
Employers will have to share starting salaries, report gender pay gaps or face fines.
+ Stronger rights for workers to challenge discrimination.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
Employers will have to share starting salaries, report gender pay gaps or face fines.
+ Stronger rights for workers to challenge discrimination.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
www.regeringen.se
January 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
ℹ️Today, Swedish Minister @ninalarsson.bsky.social unveiled draft law to implement the EU #PayTransparency directive.
Employers will have to share starting salaries, report gender pay gaps or face fines.
+ Stronger rights for workers to challenge discrimination.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
Employers will have to share starting salaries, report gender pay gaps or face fines.
+ Stronger rights for workers to challenge discrimination.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
Remember @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's mobility package, promised for June?
Commission staff aren’t ready to vouch for it.
Adoption in Q3 is still “on the table”… for now. 👀
Commission staff aren’t ready to vouch for it.
Adoption in Q3 is still “on the table”… for now. 👀
January 14, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Remember @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's mobility package, promised for June?
Commission staff aren’t ready to vouch for it.
Adoption in Q3 is still “on the table”… for now. 👀
Commission staff aren’t ready to vouch for it.
Adoption in Q3 is still “on the table”… for now. 👀
🆕Sweden’s official inquiry on implementing the EU #PlatformWork Directive is complete & now in the hands of Minister Britz!
The proposal: a new law to regulate rights & obligations for platform companies, workers, self-employed, & trade unions.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
The proposal: a new law to regulate rights & obligations for platform companies, workers, self-employed, & trade unions.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
www.regeringen.se
January 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
🆕Sweden’s official inquiry on implementing the EU #PlatformWork Directive is complete & now in the hands of Minister Britz!
The proposal: a new law to regulate rights & obligations for platform companies, workers, self-employed, & trade unions.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
The proposal: a new law to regulate rights & obligations for platform companies, workers, self-employed, & trade unions.
www.regeringen.se/contentasset...
Big changes for fair EU mobility. By 2026 @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social will propose:
✅ European Social Security Pass
✅ Stronger European Labour Authority
✅ Skills portability across borders
Plus address remote work, 3rd country postings, simpler temp. service provision & work ID-cards.
✅ European Social Security Pass
✅ Stronger European Labour Authority
✅ Skills portability across borders
Plus address remote work, 3rd country postings, simpler temp. service provision & work ID-cards.
January 8, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Big changes for fair EU mobility. By 2026 @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social will propose:
✅ European Social Security Pass
✅ Stronger European Labour Authority
✅ Skills portability across borders
Plus address remote work, 3rd country postings, simpler temp. service provision & work ID-cards.
✅ European Social Security Pass
✅ Stronger European Labour Authority
✅ Skills portability across borders
Plus address remote work, 3rd country postings, simpler temp. service provision & work ID-cards.
On Feb 12, EU leaders meet at Alden Biesen Castle for a strategic summit on boosting Europe’s competitiveness. “We must unlock the full potential of the single market,” says @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu.
#EUCompetitiveness #SingleMarket
#EUCompetitiveness #SingleMarket
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
On Feb 12, EU leaders meet at Alden Biesen Castle for a strategic summit on boosting Europe’s competitiveness. “We must unlock the full potential of the single market,” says @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu.
#EUCompetitiveness #SingleMarket
#EUCompetitiveness #SingleMarket
🆕Breaking: MEPs have just demanded new EU rules to protect workers from algorithmic management.
No hiring by algorithms, full transparency on data use, & a ban on tracking emotions & off-duty data.
@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social must respond within 3 months!
No hiring by algorithms, full transparency on data use, & a ban on tracking emotions & off-duty data.
@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social must respond within 3 months!
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🆕Breaking: MEPs have just demanded new EU rules to protect workers from algorithmic management.
No hiring by algorithms, full transparency on data use, & a ban on tracking emotions & off-duty data.
@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social must respond within 3 months!
No hiring by algorithms, full transparency on data use, & a ban on tracking emotions & off-duty data.
@roxanaminzatu.bsky.social must respond within 3 months!
At noon today, MEPs vote on a report urging EU legislation on digitalisation, AI & algorithmic management at work, providing input to @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's Quality Jobs Act due by end-2026.
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
At noon today, MEPs vote on a report urging EU legislation on digitalisation, AI & algorithmic management at work, providing input to @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's Quality Jobs Act due by end-2026.
📢 Big news for workers’ rights! The revised EWC Directive (EU 2025/2450) is now official.
✅ Transpose by 1 Jan 2028
✅ Apply all parts by 2 Jan 2029
Full text in all languages 👉
eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2025...
✅ Transpose by 1 Jan 2028
✅ Apply all parts by 2 Jan 2029
Full text in all languages 👉
eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2025...
eur-lex.europa.eu
December 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
📢 Big news for workers’ rights! The revised EWC Directive (EU 2025/2450) is now official.
✅ Transpose by 1 Jan 2028
✅ Apply all parts by 2 Jan 2029
Full text in all languages 👉
eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2025...
✅ Transpose by 1 Jan 2028
✅ Apply all parts by 2 Jan 2029
Full text in all languages 👉
eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2025...
Leaked ⭐EU priorities for 2026:
✅ 28th Regime
🚗 Car Package
💊 Critical Med. Act
🏠 Affordable Housing Plan
⚡ Grids Package
🤝 Fair Labour Mobility Pkg.
💶 MFF sectoral prop.
🛂 Return Regulation
💰 SIU
🚍Omnibus:
📲 Digital & AI
🔐 Cybersec. & Data
🧪 Chemicals
🛡️ Defence
✅ 28th Regime
🚗 Car Package
💊 Critical Med. Act
🏠 Affordable Housing Plan
⚡ Grids Package
🤝 Fair Labour Mobility Pkg.
💶 MFF sectoral prop.
🛂 Return Regulation
💰 SIU
🚍Omnibus:
📲 Digital & AI
🔐 Cybersec. & Data
🧪 Chemicals
🛡️ Defence
December 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Leaked ⭐EU priorities for 2026:
✅ 28th Regime
🚗 Car Package
💊 Critical Med. Act
🏠 Affordable Housing Plan
⚡ Grids Package
🤝 Fair Labour Mobility Pkg.
💶 MFF sectoral prop.
🛂 Return Regulation
💰 SIU
🚍Omnibus:
📲 Digital & AI
🔐 Cybersec. & Data
🧪 Chemicals
🛡️ Defence
✅ 28th Regime
🚗 Car Package
💊 Critical Med. Act
🏠 Affordable Housing Plan
⚡ Grids Package
🤝 Fair Labour Mobility Pkg.
💶 MFF sectoral prop.
🛂 Return Regulation
💰 SIU
🚍Omnibus:
📲 Digital & AI
🔐 Cybersec. & Data
🧪 Chemicals
🛡️ Defence
CSDDD/CSRD deal in a nutshell:
📌Capped at 5,000+ employees
📌Penalties up to 3% global turnover
📌Climate transition plans scrapped
📌No harmonised civil liability
📌CSDDD pushed back to 2029
📌CSRD stays at 1,000+ employees
📌3rd country CSRD threshold at €450M turnover
📌Capped at 5,000+ employees
📌Penalties up to 3% global turnover
📌Climate transition plans scrapped
📌No harmonised civil liability
📌CSDDD pushed back to 2029
📌CSRD stays at 1,000+ employees
📌3rd country CSRD threshold at €450M turnover
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
CSDDD/CSRD deal in a nutshell:
📌Capped at 5,000+ employees
📌Penalties up to 3% global turnover
📌Climate transition plans scrapped
📌No harmonised civil liability
📌CSDDD pushed back to 2029
📌CSRD stays at 1,000+ employees
📌3rd country CSRD threshold at €450M turnover
📌Capped at 5,000+ employees
📌Penalties up to 3% global turnover
📌Climate transition plans scrapped
📌No harmonised civil liability
📌CSDDD pushed back to 2029
📌CSRD stays at 1,000+ employees
📌3rd country CSRD threshold at €450M turnover
👏 Sverige behåller förstaplatsen i EU:s jämställdhetsindex!
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
👏 Sverige behåller förstaplatsen i EU:s jämställdhetsindex!
👏 Spot on, @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social!
The #QualityJobsRoadmap is right to emphazise social dialogue!
- Support social dialogue
- Collective agreements = better conditions, flexibility & less burden
- Contractual freedom for social partners is a must
- Respecting national systems
The #QualityJobsRoadmap is right to emphazise social dialogue!
- Support social dialogue
- Collective agreements = better conditions, flexibility & less burden
- Contractual freedom for social partners is a must
- Respecting national systems
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
👏 Spot on, @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social!
The #QualityJobsRoadmap is right to emphazise social dialogue!
- Support social dialogue
- Collective agreements = better conditions, flexibility & less burden
- Contractual freedom for social partners is a must
- Respecting national systems
The #QualityJobsRoadmap is right to emphazise social dialogue!
- Support social dialogue
- Collective agreements = better conditions, flexibility & less burden
- Contractual freedom for social partners is a must
- Respecting national systems
🗳️Just voted in the @eesc.bsky.social for opinions that strengthen a fairer Single Market, recognize nuclear as one of several key fossil-free energy sources, & guard against competition distortions in the EU’s proposed competitiveness fund!
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🗳️Just voted in the @eesc.bsky.social for opinions that strengthen a fairer Single Market, recognize nuclear as one of several key fossil-free energy sources, & guard against competition distortions in the EU’s proposed competitiveness fund!
👋 @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social has just launched the 1st-stage consultation on the upcoming Quality Jobs Act.
📢 EU social partners are invited to share their views by 29 Jan 2026 on:
🤖 AI at work
🦺 OSH
🔗 Subcontracting
🌱 Just transition
🛠️ Enforcement
🤝 Role of social partners
📢 EU social partners are invited to share their views by 29 Jan 2026 on:
🤖 AI at work
🦺 OSH
🔗 Subcontracting
🌱 Just transition
🛠️ Enforcement
🤝 Role of social partners
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
👋 @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social has just launched the 1st-stage consultation on the upcoming Quality Jobs Act.
📢 EU social partners are invited to share their views by 29 Jan 2026 on:
🤖 AI at work
🦺 OSH
🔗 Subcontracting
🌱 Just transition
🛠️ Enforcement
🤝 Role of social partners
📢 EU social partners are invited to share their views by 29 Jan 2026 on:
🤖 AI at work
🦺 OSH
🔗 Subcontracting
🌱 Just transition
🛠️ Enforcement
🤝 Role of social partners
Today’s much-anticipated presentation of @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's Quality Jobs Roadmap — after a tough fight to get it on the December agenda — has been pushed back.
It will now be unveiled tomorrow morning (Thursday), alongside the launch of a new consultation.
Stay tuned. 🚀
It will now be unveiled tomorrow morning (Thursday), alongside the launch of a new consultation.
Stay tuned. 🚀
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Today’s much-anticipated presentation of @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social's Quality Jobs Roadmap — after a tough fight to get it on the December agenda — has been pushed back.
It will now be unveiled tomorrow morning (Thursday), alongside the launch of a new consultation.
Stay tuned. 🚀
It will now be unveiled tomorrow morning (Thursday), alongside the launch of a new consultation.
Stay tuned. 🚀
🗨️ The @ombudsman.europa.eu calls out @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu for rushing the ‘Omnibus I’ reform of the EU’s #CS3D corporate sustainability law.
Urgency is no excuse for bad law-making!
Urgency is no excuse for bad law-making!
Recommendation on the European Commission’s compliance with ‘Better Regulation’ rules and other procedural requirements in preparing legislative proposals that it considered to be urgent (983/2025/MAS...
The three cases concern how the European Commission applied its ‘Better Regulation’ rules and other procedural requirements when preparing legislative pro...
www.ombudsman.europa.eu
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🗨️ The @ombudsman.europa.eu calls out @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu for rushing the ‘Omnibus I’ reform of the EU’s #CS3D corporate sustainability law.
Urgency is no excuse for bad law-making!
Urgency is no excuse for bad law-making!
Today @eesc.bsky.social I backed a draft opinion to secure a minimum allocation for capacity-building of social partners in the next European Social Fund, correcting @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s removal of the current ring-fencing for social dialogue! ✊🇪🇺
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Today @eesc.bsky.social I backed a draft opinion to secure a minimum allocation for capacity-building of social partners in the next European Social Fund, correcting @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social’s removal of the current ring-fencing for social dialogue! ✊🇪🇺
🤔 @businesseurope.bsky.social champions “contractual freedom” to fight the EU’s 30-day payment term proposal — yet it’s also pushing for a CSRD value-chain cap that limits what big firms can ask of suppliers.
So… how fundamental is that “freedom” really?
#LatePayments #CSRD #omnibus
So… how fundamental is that “freedom” really?
#LatePayments #CSRD #omnibus
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🤔 @businesseurope.bsky.social champions “contractual freedom” to fight the EU’s 30-day payment term proposal — yet it’s also pushing for a CSRD value-chain cap that limits what big firms can ask of suppliers.
So… how fundamental is that “freedom” really?
#LatePayments #CSRD #omnibus
So… how fundamental is that “freedom” really?
#LatePayments #CSRD #omnibus
💸The Commission has just launched a new pension package, drawing inspiration from countries like Sweden, with the aim of increasing automatic enrolment in workplace pensions, reducing fees, and making pension plans simpler and more affordable!
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
💸The Commission has just launched a new pension package, drawing inspiration from countries like Sweden, with the aim of increasing automatic enrolment in workplace pensions, reducing fees, and making pension plans simpler and more affordable!
👏Europaparlamentets budgetutskott har idag godkänt Sveriges ansökan om EU-stöd till de som drabbats av uppsägningarna på Northvolt!
Sveriges största fackförbund @unionen.bsky.social var tidigt ute & krävde stöd!💚
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Sveriges största fackförbund @unionen.bsky.social var tidigt ute & krävde stöd!💚
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
EU budget support for Sweden to help laid-off workers | News | European Parliament
The Budgets Committee votes for EU funding to assist 5,800 former employees at electric-vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt AB in Sweden.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
👏Europaparlamentets budgetutskott har idag godkänt Sveriges ansökan om EU-stöd till de som drabbats av uppsägningarna på Northvolt!
Sveriges största fackförbund @unionen.bsky.social var tidigt ute & krävde stöd!💚
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Sveriges största fackförbund @unionen.bsky.social var tidigt ute & krävde stöd!💚
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...