La Federación Sindical Europea de Servicios Públicos (EPSU, en sus siglas en inglés) en colaboración con la Juventud de la CES y el Foro Europeo de la Juventud (EYF), publica la encuesta "Trabajadores jóvenes: actitudes hacia el trabajo, los sindicatos y la sociedad".
La directive sur le secret des affaires pose des premiers jalons. Mais la création d’un véritable statut des lanceurs d’alerte risque de se faire attendre.
The EU’s austerity policy is unlawful, according to Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano, a professor at the Centre for European Law and Politics (ZERP), University of Bremen, who drew up a paper for the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB), the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
In a decision published yesterday (20 November) the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) found that Sweden violated the revised European Social Charter in several respects. Supported by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), its two Swedish affiliates Landsorganisationen i Sverige (LO) and Tjänstemännens Centralorganisation (TCO) filed a complaint against Sweden criticising the ‘Laval’ legislation, which had been introduced in order to conform to the so-called Laval judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice) (C-341/05 - Laval un Partneri).
Stronger participation is a step towards sustainable corporate governance in the economic, social and ecological dimension, which in itself is a step towards a sustainable company. The ETUC reiterates its call for a strengthening and broader scope of the information and consultation procedures, in particular by a revision of the general framework directive, but also of the participation rights in the Member States where such rights exist.
Organisers of a European Citizens’ Initiative that seeks to halt sales of public water utilities say they have gathered one million signatures from across Europe, becoming the first such group to do so since the grass-roots efforts were launched last spring.