On Wednesday 14 October, the European Commission adopted and published the long-awaited EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability towards a toxic-free environment. This EU action delivers a set of action points to ensure “safe and sustainable chemicals, for human...
On 9 October 2020, the Council of the European Union approved conclusions on “Improving the working and living conditions of seasonal and other mobile workers”. This follows the European Parliament Resolution on 19 June 2020 and the Guidelines on Seasonal Workers...
Respect and protect the rights of the Agro-food workers Make EU agriculture and food systems more sustainable and just Europe needs a fair, transparent, and sustainable food supply chain that can benefit everyone. In recent decades, there has been an increased process...
EFFAT- IUF Europe together with its UK and Irish affiliates, SIPTU, UNITE, USDAW, BFAWU and GMB, call on the UK conservative Government in Westminster and the EU to do whatever it takes to reach a trade deal that save jobs and delivers for working people across our...
As you know, EFFAT is involved in the European project “Advancing Personal and Household Services” Ad-PHS, which has as its main objective to support, guide and provide advice to public authorities and stakeholders across Europe in the development of their PHS...
Our training journey to support our mission "Youth Empowerment" started in March 2020 in Sesimbra when we organised the first seminar of the year together with the ETUI. Back then, the seminar focused on improving and strengthening cross-border cooperation between...
The pandemic is casting new light on the exploitative working and living conditions experienced by millions of agricultural workers in Europe. Exploitation, gangmaster practices, underpayment, undeclared work, illegal wage deductions, lack of equal treatment and of...
On 18 September 2020, the European social partners in the contract catering sector, EFFAT and FoodServiceEurope, had a meeting with OIB, the European Commission’s Office for Infrastructure and Logistics Brussels, to discuss the current call for tenders for the...
EFFAT Executive Committee unanimously adopts 10 demands for action at EU level to cure the meat sector Whether employed through abusive subcontracting practices, as temporary agency workers, posted workers or forced to accept bogus self-employed status, the working,...
During the last EFFAT Executive Committee on the 10th of September 2020, EFFAT adopted a resolution criticizing the escalation of repression against leaders of the movement for democracy and the independent trade unions in Belarus, in particular the use of torture and...
