support aggregate demand and employment in view of the serious slowdown in growth;
put an immediate halt to austerity measures and corresponding cuts in public spending in areas that provide social support and facilitate productive economic activity;
invest in infrastructure, education and quality public services including in the care economy;
support the transition to a low-carbon economy;
counter the erosion of tax bases and profit shifting by multinationals and achieve reform of tax systems, and support this by shifting taxation from employment to environmentally damaging and non-productive activities;
ensure that revenue is not lost through tax havens by requiring automatic exchange of information and country by country reporting;
maintain and increase expenditure on active labour market programmes and implement schemes to promote job retention and job sharing during the crisis;
cooperate with the social partners to scale up apprenticeships and training programmes and put in place a "Jobs Guarantee" for young people;
reverse the rise in income inequality by strengthening collective bargaining and set robust minimum wages; avoid a further deterioration of gender gaps in employment and income levels;
improve the provision of affordable finance to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and facilitate their insertion into global value chains, while ensuring that they can provide decent work to their employees;
support the implementation of a global social protection floor and the ratification of the ILO Conventions on social security;
establish employment targets or indicators to be used in the G20 Mutual Assessment Process for "Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth";
commission the G20 Employment Task Force with a permanent mandate to carry out regular monitoring of the implementation of past agreements.
Labour 20 Key Messages
To achieve sound, sustainable, fair and green growth, the L20 put forward the following policy recommendations to the G20 Labour and Finance Ministers: