Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0154(NLE)
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States
Non-legislative procedure (NLE): for example international agreements, appointments or opinions. · Parliament gives its opinion on a proposal. The Council decides, but must wait for Parliament’s opinion.
Parliament is consulted: it gives an opinion and can propose amendments, but the Council takes the decision and need not follow them.
Where it stands
Plenary vote
Parliament gave its opinion on 8 October 2025. The Council takes the final decision.
- Referred to committee(done) 8 September 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 4 September 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 10 September 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 8 October 2025
- Adopted by the Council(to come)
Decided in plenary
8 October 2025 · decision 3
Jobs, social affairs & equality, New EU law
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States
Passed 412 for · 129 against · 98 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:Parliament asks the Council to notify it if the Council intends to depart from the text Parliament approved, and to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend that text.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
No change of substance: the two versions differ only in presentation — cover page, numbering or the parts a report carries that the adopted text does not.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Employment and Social Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Li Andersson (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 8 Oct 2025
AI summary:Parliament approved the Commission proposal for a Council decision on the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States.
Tabled for plenary· 10 Sept 2025
AI summary:Parliament approves the Commission proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
8 October 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 8 Oct 2025 Adopted text TA10-0217/2025Report A10-0160/2025
1 October 2025
2 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
10 September 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 2 steps
8 September 2025
Referred to the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
4 September 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0154(NLE)