With an overwhelming majority this week the European Parliament in Plenary adopted a resolution on towards a common European action on care, an important step forward towards the value, recognition and professionalisation of the domestic sector in Europe. The text...
EFFAT NEWSLETTER MARCH APRIL 2022
Commission sets ambitious reduction targets but more needed to ensure agri-workers' health and safety protection With a three-month delay, the European Commission has finally released its proposals for the Regulation on the sustainable use of plant protection products...
After COVID-19, employment in travel and tourism in Europe is estimated to have dropped by 9.3%, equating to 3.6 million jobs. Tourism staff shortages in Europe impact all countries in Europe with varying intensity. Some numbers: In Germany, almost every fourth job in...
Vienna, 13 June 2022 : Today EFFAT and IUF launch #MeatTheStandards: A Europe wide initiative to raise awareness about the urgency for a fairer meat sector in Europe through: increasing trade union membership and workplace representation in the sector improving pay...
On June 12, World Day against Child Labour, there is nothing to celebrate as we see a shocking rise in the numbers of working children. Progress to eliminate child labour was already slowing before the COVID-19 pandemic and the ILO and UNICEF are now projecting that...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) decided to maintain the existing classification of glyphosate: toxic to aquatic life but still no classification as a carcinogen, despite of even stronger scientific evidence than in 2015 when WHO’s International Agency for...
76 organisations joined up forces to express their deep concerns about the direction the negotiations within trilogues are taking on the reform of the agriculture statistics regulation and called upon Member States to support the European Parliament’s proposals...
EFFAT NEWSLETTER MARCH APRIL 2022
Today, on International Workers’ Memorial Day, EFFAT reminds that despite employing half of the world population, the agriculture sector remains one of the highest fatalities. As the ILO confirms, farm workers run at least twice the risk of dying on the job as workers...
