The European Commission has announced to present a ‘Quality Jobs Roadmap’ at the end of 2025. This initiative aims to promote the improvement of job quality in the EU. AK welcomes the fact that the conditions for high-quality jobs are to be more firmly established and secured at EU level. However, rom AK's point of view, it is crucial that the Quality Jobs Roadmap does not remain at the level of a non-binding analysis. Rather, this initiative must include a series of concrete and effective measures, which should cover the following areas:

• Improving data availability and including job quality (more strongly) in the Social Policy Scoreboard and the EU’s social targets
   
• Ambitious and effective EU minimum standards to strengthen job quality – and their consistent implementation
   
• No deterioration in job quality as a result of the curent European Commission’s deregulation wave