EU Commission's Roxana Minzatu Talks Future-Proofing ‘Quality Jobs’
episodePreviously titled “Commission's Roxana Minzatu Talks Future-Proofing ‘Quality Jobs’” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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Hello and welcome. This is The Michelle Hussein Show. I'm Michelle Hussein. I speak with people like Elon Musk. I think I've done enough. And Shonda Rhimes. That's so cute. This will be a place where every weekend you can count on one essential conversation to help make sense of the world. So please join me, listen and subscribe to The Michelle Hussein Show from Bloomberg Weekend, wherever you get your podcasts. You certainly ask interesting questions.
Now, the European Commission will today unveil a plan to future-proof what it's calling quality jobs as Europe continues to face challenges over competitiveness, building up its defences and the global AI race. But how does the roadmap balance protecting workers with the EU's drive to cut red tape, a key component of the draggy and letter recommendations for keeping the EU competitive internationally? in the future. Joining me now to discuss is Roxana Manzatta, who's Executive Vice President of the European Commission for Responsibility for Social Rights, Skills and Jobs. Good morning. Great to have you with us in studio. What's this plan about?
It's about balancing competitiveness and social rights. You are spot on. Because as Draghi said, there is no competitiveness without quality employment, without quality jobs. And many of the shortages that we see in many sectors are about the working conditions. But it's not just about the current types of employment that we see. It's also about the future of work. And you've mentioned AI, algorithmic management, which is not going to change many types of jobs and skill sets but it does change labor relations workers relations with their bosses when we have ai as an assistant is one discussion when you're looking at ai as a boss because we have algorithms that sometimes manage activities or assess activities then it's a different story so what the commission is doing is on the one side
investing, pushing on innovation in AI, pushing on deployment and diffusion of AI in Europe. And this is extremely important. But in order to have this diffusion and uptake of AI throughout our industries, in all company contexts, small or large, We need to create trustworthy environments for workers and for employers alike. So the quality jobs route will look and will ask this question.
What is the European Commission's plan for future-proofing quality jobs?
Do we have enough protections for workers when the algorithm is in charge or do we need to create a framework that enables this kind of protection? this kind of work environment. And I need to mention this today, we also launched this first phase consultation for a potential quality jobs act. So it's not just the strategy that we launched today on employment, but it's also asking social partners what we need to do in the sense of legislative initiative.
But when you're talking about new rules, businesses are going to be wary about the what exactly that's going to mean for their competitiveness if you're adding to a regulatory burden. How do you respond to the call from unions, for example, to put rules in place, but also balance that with competitiveness?
Look, no, no. The idea is not to create more burden for companies. We need to keep them agile. We will look at gaps. So gaps mean where we have no types of frameworks and of regulatory setups.
How does the roadmap balance worker protections with business competitiveness?
And whether these gaps need to be filled or not, it will be the result of these consultations with the social partners. But this is clear, and I work very closely with the executive vice president for technology in the commission, with Hena Virkunen, We are working together, not in silos. So obviously everything will be carefully balanced so that any type of outputs of this Quality Jobs Act is not creating burden or any type of negative influence on companies. But we cannot forget about people, about workers, because it's them in the end that need also to deliver competitiveness and they need also to benefit from the prosperity that we want to share in Europe.
How worried are you about the kind of broader signals of that sends to companies that might want to invest or hire in the European Union as well?
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:13
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What is the European Commission's plan for future-proofing quality jobs?
2:13–3:16
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How does the roadmap balance worker protections with business competitiveness?
3:16–7:18
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What role does AI play in changing labor relations and job types?
7:18–9:27
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