European Commission Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness Roxana Minzatu declared on Friday in Brasov that the EU is discussing calls for the regulation of workplace stress, but emphasized, however, that for now she does not have statistical data on this subject.
"At European level there are requests for legislation in the area of workplace stress management. There are countries, especially in the western part of the EU, that are facing high rates of illness caused by psycho-emotional problems, with consequent sick leaves. But at the same time, there is also a discussion across the EU related to over-regulation. So, we need to have a balance. There are several important themes in the social area and one refers to the way in which Artificial Intelligence recruits, assesses, selects personnel and which (...) should be regulated by law, and let's also look at the working conditions, whether we are talking about countries with extreme climate, very high temperatures, and how we regulate climate stress, stress in the workplace. (...) There is no information available, but we will have an analysis because at the end of the year I will have to come up with data about what quality jobs mean, what regulations we want to impose to ensure that we have such jobs and stress is also part of these conditions," said Roxana Minzatu.
She specified that another extremely important topic is related to the automotive industry and that she is personally involved in solving the problems faced by this sector.
"(...) We are concerned with what to do with the industries that are undergoing restructuring, that are losing or transforming jobs, with how to help companies, employees to retrain in order to remain active in those industries in other jobs, to switch to other industries but still in similar jobs or to provide them financial support," said the European Commissioner.
In the context of her visit to Brasov to meet with local high school students and students from the Transilvania University, Minzatu emphasized that two of the young people's basic skills must be citizenship education and digital literacy, respectively, noting that these will be included in the Union of Skills - a complex strategy that will set out, among others, a strategic plan for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education and which will be launched on March 5.
"Education and skills is part of my portfolio and that's why I want to know how the [students and high school students] see the Erasmus program, which universities they want to study at, how the program can be improved. But I also asked them how they see the use of AI in work relations. Romanian youth are connected to certain European themes, but I don't realize if the way they see things comes from a theoretical thinking or from their travel-related experiences. That's why I believe that, by helping them travel, the Erasmus program can also provide context to the opinions they express. I will unveil a strategy on skills on March 5 and I will propose that one of the basic skills refers to education for citizenship, and another one to digital skills. Through the education component, information, through Erasmus, through mobility, travel and exchanges, children can understand (...) others, what their values are (...) what to do in order to respect the same rules together, but at the same time respect the differences between us. Opportunities exist in all fields but we cannot help but see them and we encouraged them to consider thoroughly studying mathematics, sciences, go towards technical fields, we are looking for competent, innovative people in the medical area too, also in construction and IT," the EC Vice President also said.
Roxana Minzatu participated on Friday in Brasov in a meeting with students and teaching staff from Transilvania University.
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