EFFAT supports today’s general strike organised by the Belgian trade unions FGTB, CSC and CGSLB. The Belgian Interprofessional Agreement for 2019-2020 is currently being negotiated. Although the economy is growing as well as shareholders’ dividends and companies’...
On 9 February our Italian affiliates from FLAI CGIL, UILA UIL and FAI CISL participated in the mass demonstration against the economic and social policies of the Italian Populist Government. More than 300,000 people marched through the streets of Rome. United under...
Speaking at today’s plenary meeting of the EU sugar sector social dialogue, representatives of the European Commission Directorate General for Agriculture & Rural Development once again offered no answers to the most pressing question ever faced by the EU beet...
CCEP announced today to the works council and the entire workforce the intention of changing its business model regarding the delivery of goods and the distribution of Chaqwa Coffee. Stating that over the last years there has been a constant decline of directive...
On 24 January 2019, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission involved in the Trialogue negotiations on the work-life balance Directive came to an agreement. This compromise, which has yet to be formally adopted by Council and Parliament in...
FoodDrinkEurope is the representative body for Europe's food and drink industry. This industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the European Union in terms of turnover, employment and value added. That's why bringing in new talents and managing and ageing...
Acknowledging the report from the European Commission on progress in the implementation of the Forest Strategy the undersigned organizations, representing forest owners, managers, contractors and the forest-based industry, call on the European Commission, Parliament...
This “practical advice and guidance” document addresses the role of workers in minimising the risk of exposure to antimicrobial resistant agents. The role of social partners remains very important in order to improve working conditions. Practical advice for workers on...
After 5 years of conflict and struggle with Coca Cola (CCEP), workers of Fuenlabrada, put an end to the labor and social conflict started in 2014. According to an agreement that workers consider ‘a social triumph’, Coca-Cola will close the logistical centre in...
FoodServiceEurope and EFFAT, social partners for the contract catering sector, have jointly been granted EU funding in order to update their “Guide to the economically most advantageous offer in contract catering” of January 2006 (hereafter the “Guide”) and the...
