Just over 200 days until the UK leaves the EU, we’re at crisis point. The Tory government has comprehensively failed to negotiate a Brexit that protects the jobs, rights and livelihoods of working people across the UK. We don’t represent the elite, the...
On 6 August, 12 migrant workers died on the roads of the province of Foggia in the Italian region of Apullia. They were crammed in the back of a white van with a Bulgarian license plate when the van crashed against a truck, putting an end to their lives and spilling...
The United Nations Global Compact on Migration is a Key Opportunity to Recognise Rights of Migrant Domestic and Care Workers BRUSSELS, 15 JUNE 2018 - Across Europe, many individuals and families rely on support to carry out essential domestic and care work, to look...
After a few months of intensive negotiations, on 6 June 2018 EFFAT and the Special Negotiating Body of Asahi Breweries Europe signed an EWC agreement in Pilsen (Czech Republic). In April 2016 Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. (“Asahi”) completed the acquisition of former...
With the acquisition of Starwood, Marriott has become the largest hotel company in the world with over 6,400 hotels in 126 countries, over 220,000 employees globally, and global profits of almost USD 1 billion. Marriott’s growth continues with at least one new hotel...
Today we release a new report on McDonald’s tax practices, focusing on the company’s use of tax avoidance mechanisms in Europe and low-tax and secrecy jurisdictions around the world. It shows how in the midst of a tax probe and the day after the Brexit, McDonald’s...
The European Commission is proposing a new law to strengthen whistleblower protection across the EU. “The proposal contains good elements with a broad scope of applicability. Employees in EFFAT’s sectors have reported wrongdoing in issues of public interest such as...
The controversial decision to re-approve the use of glyphosate for another five years has exposed some fundamental failures of the EU’s pesticide approval system, revealing that chemical companies have an undue influence on EU scientific assessments. The EC and the...
On 16 April 2018, an agreement establishing an SE Works Council in Delivery Hero was finally signed in Berlin, after months of tough negotiations. This is good news, after the decision of the Tribunal in Turin on 11 April 2018 rejecting the request of six riders who...
On 5 April 2018, at the occasion of the annual meeting of the Schreiber EWC, EFFAT signed together with Schreiber Management an important declaration on diversity, inclusion and equality at the workplace. With the signature of this declaration, the parties committed...
