EURESApr 22

Why not consider Greece for your next career move? 🇬🇷

From tourism to shipping, Greece offers opportunities in key sectors.

🔗 Discover more on the EURES portal: https://eures.europa.eu/living-and-working_en

#EURESjobs #WorkInGreece #LabourMobility

Why not consider Greece for your next career move? 🇬🇷

From tourism to shipping, Greece offers opportunities in key sectors.

🔗 Discover more on the EURES portal: eures.europa.eu/living-and-w…

#EURESjobs #WorkInGreece #LabourMobility
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Living and working

Thinking about practical, legal and administrative matters of importance when considering moving abroad can be confusing.

EURES (EURopean Employment Services)
Show threadPepperberryApr 13

Degrees once measured competence. Now they often measure access.
Paper first. Skill second.
When credentials become toll booths
The labour market’s paperwork arms race
Scarcity disguised as standards
What if the gate is the story?
When legitimacy costs years and debt
The hidden economics of gatekeeping
👇
https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees

#LabourMarket
#HigherEducation
#Gatekeeping
#OccupationalLicensing
#FutureOfWork
#Competence
#LabourMobility
#Workforce
#Productivity
#EducationPolicy
#Meritocracy

The Credential Cartel: How degrees replaced competence — and scarcity replaced skill

Degrees, licences, and the hidden economics of gatekeeping, where modern work rewards credentials more than competence, and legitimacy costs years, debt, and permission

Curmudgeonly Canadian
PepperberryApr 13

A new essay: The Credential Cartel.
It’s about degree inflation, licensing barriers, and how credentials increasingly function as gatekeeping devices rather than narrow tests of competence. The core question is simple: when a requirement is defended as necessary, is it actually protecting the public — or mostly protecting access?

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees

#Credentialism
#DegreeInflation
#PublicPolicy
#Gatekeeping
#OccupationalLicensing
#Skills
#Competence
#LabourMobility
#Workforce
#Meritocracy

BellingenNSWDec 13

Modern slavery in Coffs Harbour?
Where does the fruit for Christmas come from?

"Migrant workers have given evidence in Coffs Harbour at a NSW parliamentary inquiry into modern slavery...More than 100 reports of migrant workers being exploited across Coffs Harbour in the past two years."

"The Coffs Coast is the nation's largest producer of blueberries."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-13/modern-slavery-migrant-hearings-in-nsw/106130342

Modern slavery au
https://www.modernslavery.gov.au/
#CoffsHarbour #NSW #IR #work #fruit #food #PALM #workers #exploitation #plantations #LabourMobility #HorticulturalIndustry #blueberries #ModernSlavery #PacificNeighbours

Christmas hamper contextualised with fruit from the plantations of the Coffs Harbour coast, ChatGPT

Show threadlarinyoNov 29

Why does qualification recognition take so long?

→ 69% of verifications still manual
→ Each MS has different procedures
→ No standardised digital infrastructure
→ Paper-based processes requiring physical document exchange

Result: a 6-month average career gap in recognition. Professionals either wait unemployed or work below their qualification level

This isn't just inconvenient—it's a barrier preventing 450 million Europeans from exercising Treaty rights
#LabourMobility #ProfessionalMobility

Show threadlarinyoNov 25

💼 PROFESSIONALID: Cross-Border Professional Mobility

CGCOM medical pilot validated:

✅ Medical professionals with sectoral frameworks
✅ CPD throughout career
✅ Regulatory compliance machine-verifiable (Directive 2005/36/EC)
✅ Cross-border authorization
✅ Weeks → minutes verification

Same ELM + W3C VCDM foundation as EducationalID = seamless education-to-employment pathway.

Single Market barriers removed.

#ProfessionalID #ProfessionalQualifications #LabourMobility #SingleMarket #Healthcare

Headlines AfricaNov 6, 2025
Africa: Ruto, German Chancellor Merz Discuss Peace in Africa and Bilateral Labour Pact in Phone Conversation: [Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto on Thursday held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, during which the two leaders discussed efforts to end ongoing conflicts across Africa and strengthen Kenya-Germany bilateral cooperation, particularly in labour… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TP6Gx4 #Africa #PeaceTalks #BilateralRelations #LabourMobility #SkillsExchange
The-14Jul 26, 2025
Time of ‘opportunity’ as Canada asserts its sovereignty, premier says
#Inuit #Nunavut #Canada #PJAkeeagok #Sovereignty #ArcticInfrastructure #NorthernCanada #TradeBarriers #LabourMobility #CouncilOfTheFederation #Politics #InternalTrade #NationalUnity
https://the-14.com/time-of-opportunity-as-canada-asserts-its-sovereignty-premier-says/
The-14Jul 26, 2025
NWT, Nunavut and Yukon sign free trade framework agreement with Ontario
#Nunavut #NWT #Ontario #Yukon #Canada #FreeTrade #NorthernCanada #EconomicDevelopment #LabourMobility #CanadianEconomy #TradeAgreement #InterprovincialTrade #NorthCanada #Economy
https://the-14.com/nwt-nunavut-and-yukon-sign-free-trade-framework-agreement-with-ontario/
EURESJun 25, 2023

The @EU_ELA Annual Conference 2023 is taking place today! The topic of the Conference is the future of labour mobility. 💼✈️
Make sure to keep up with all the updates by following ELA's social media channels! 📲
#EURESjobs #EULabourAuthority #Labourmobility
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European Labour Authority: 📢 Live now from ELA’s Headquarters in Bratislava 🇸🇰: ELA Annual Conference 2023!
🧐 “What future for labour mobility? Trends a…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EURESJob/status/16711109070642