Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs Committee

The OECD’s work on employment, labour, and social affairs aims to promote policies that generate sustainable economic growth, high employment rates and enhance social inclusion. In this context, the OECD emphasises the importance of creating more and better jobs and strengthening strengthen labour markets’ inclusiveness and resilience through the transformations linked to demographic change, the green transition and the adoption of digital technologies including AI. 

• Fostering dynamic and inclusive labour markets in a rapidly changing world of work 

• Provide business and employers’ views on labour market developments and prospects 

• Contribute to relevant OECD, G20/B20 and G7/B7 initiatives on AI and the Future of Work  

Business at OECD’s Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs Committee actively informs the OECD’s analysis and recommendations to support flexible and inclusive labour markets, and foster private sector-led job creation. Business at OECD also helps shape the OECD’s discussions on key labour market issues such as access to skilled labour, transformations linked to demographic change, the green transition and the adoption of digital technologies, including AI, as well as on key social policy issues such as sustainably financed social protection. 

• OECD’s Committee on Employment, Social and Labour Affairs (ELSA) 

• OECD’s Working Party on Employment 

• OECD’s Working Party on Social Policy