EFFAT Urgently Appeals to Acknowledge Unpaid Domestic Work for the Collective Benefit of Women International Women’s Day (IWD) serves as a platform to expose persisting gender disparities. This year, EFFAT focuses on a critical issue – unpaid Domestic and Care Work. ...
EFFAT urges to strengthen Social Conditionality at EP hearing on the future of CAP Ahead of the EU elections and the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, EFFAT organised a hearing this week supported by MEP Maria Noichl (S&D) and MEP Martin Häusling (The...
Today, EFFAT joins thousands of workers, its affiliates, and the whole European trade union movement on the streets of Brussels to oppose attempts to impose austerity at the EU level and demand better wages and conditions for workers in Europe. Together we demand: No...
Coordinated by the European Federation of Food Agriculture and Tourism Trade unions (EFFAT) and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations, (IUF), the European Trade Unions within AB InBev join...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) today gave shocking positive advice to move forward with the prolongation of the use of Europe's most widely used herbicide glyphosate despite a series of datagaps and outstanding issues. In its conclusions it highlights that...
Brussels, 29 September 2022 – The European Care Strategy is at risk of excluding some of the most vulnerable frontline care workers. During a European Parliament event, employers and workers who provide personal and household care have emitted a joint call for the...
This week four young McDonalds' workers featured a dedicated hearing in the European Parliament hosted by MEP Manon Aubry (FR, The Left) and Maria Noichl (DE, S&D) to speak out about the corporation's global and systemic malpractice of sexual harassment and...
Brussels, 8 September 2022: EFFAT appreciates the European Commission’s recognition that Domestic Workers, many of whom are women and often with a migrant background, are subject to the poorest working conditions in the long-term care workforce. As defined by ILO...
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...
A movement of 300+ organisations and personalities urges EU CAP funds to be conditional on the respect for labour rights in agriculture. Brussels – 17 February 2021: As the interinstitutional negotiations on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are...
