10 years since the adoption of the ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, EFFAT releases today a new booklet: ‘Domestic Workers in Europe: Getting the Recognition they Deserve’ [ Link] Domestic work is a growing sector crucial for the EU economy,...
An alliance of employers, trade unions, European and international institutions and civil society organisations has ramped up calls for the protection of Europe’s 9.5 million domestic workers, including millions of home care workers. On the 10th Anniversary of the ILO...
EFFAT jointly with the ETUC, EFBWW, ETF, EPSU, UNIEuropa and industriAll sent a letter and a joint paper, including a call for action and concrete proposals, to introduce new digital tools for enforcing mobile workers’ rights in the Internal Market. The letter was...
CEFS and EFFAT joint project: “A transforming European sugar industry - New and better jobs in a competitive, innovative and sustainable industry” The 1st workshop of the joint sugar project brought together around 60 experts discussing the key role of the sugar...
With 1 in 3 people working from home, and those at the workplace taking special precautions, COVID-19 shows the life and death importance of health and safety at work. Among the 530,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the European Union* are uncounted thousands of workers...
The two-year European project “Workers’ influence on outsourcing, tender processes and transfer of employment contracts: watch the gap!” was carried out in partnership with EFFAT, ETF, EPSU, UNI Europa and Syndex. Its purpose was to analyse the implementation of EU...
To better prepare the future work in the EFFAT Domestic work sector and to strengthen its sectoral structure, EFFAT is asking their member organisations to provide the EFFAT secretariat with some basic information on the organisation of domestic workers in your...
Ahead of the next round of collective bargaining negotiations on 29 March 2021, EFFAT is sending solidarity and much strength to all of its NGG affiliates in the meat sector fighting for better wages and working conditions. Last year’s COVID-19 outbreaks in several...
HOTREC, the European umbrella association of Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés, and its trade union counterpart EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, call upon the EU and Member States to prolong the EU and national funding as long...
This International Women’s Day, EFFAT joins the international organisations IUF and ETUC calling all governments to promptly ratify the ILO Convention 190, coming into force on 25 June 2021. As the first International Labour Standard to address violence and harassment...
