This Framework Service Contract was intended to support the work of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) in the European Parliament by enabling it to order written expertise as well as workshops in the areas of competence of the EMPL Committee. The European Parliament was seeking independent expert advice on a variety of current and emerging issues connected to its work.
Lot 2 covers expertise including notably:
• social security and social protection, including for workers in the “new economy” and in
• view of Brexit;
• free movement of workers and pensioners, also in view of Brexit;
• social inclusion and the reduction and prevention of poverty;
• social dialogue, information and consultation of workers, also in newly emerging forms
• of work;
• non-discrimination at the workplace and in the labour market, both traditional and virtual; demographic change
