EU economic governance: a tool to promote or threaten social rights? The example of the right to collective bargaining

A new source for (EU) labour law?

“…In fact, the Action Plan adopted in 2021 to 'implement' the EPSR renews the link between EU funds and the implementation of CSRs, and this both in the context of the Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF) and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF + ). 38 The same Action Plan also places the European Semester as a central tool with which to monitor national policies implementing the EPSR, 39 while the monitoring of one of the flagship legislative initiatives under the Action Plan, that on adequate minimum wages in the European Union, is also to be ensured through the Semester. 40 As such, the risk, to which we will return in the last section, is that instead of (or, at the same time as) bringing more 'social' considerations into the NEG, the Pillar will bring more NEG into EU social policies.…”