Maddalena Colombi
m.colombi@effat.org
Brussels, 25 June 2021 - Co-legislators struck a political deal on the next reform of the Common Agricultural Policy following yesterday and today’s Jumbo trilogue. For the first time in history, EU Institutions have agreed on a CAP reform that takes into account the...
Brussels, 15 June 2021 - Today EFFAT joins the European Labour Authority (ELA)’s campaign “Rights for all seasons” which will run until October 20201 with an action week foreseen between 20-24 September. The campaign, targeting in particular seasonal workers in the...
After weeks of mobilising and more than 20 strikes, NGG succeeded to get employers´ organisations in the German meat industry back to the negotiating table, while increasing trade union membership. Trade unions and employers struck a deal on a nationwide minimum wage,...
Brussels, 28 May 2025 - EFFAT welcomes the progress made during this week's trilogue negotiations on social aspects. However, more must be done to deliver an effective social conditionality mechanism, broad in scope, through which CAP could finally uphold the respect...
Today the European Trade Union Institute ( ETUI) , in collaboration with EFFAT, has released the latest HesaMag #23, the ETUI publication about health and safety at work, released twice a year, in English and French. This edition offers an insight into the daily lives...
On 7- 8 May 2021, representatives of the EU Institutions, EU heads of states and social partners, will come together to shape the European social policy agenda for the years to come and reinforce their commitment to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social...
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...
Trade unions judge it unacceptable and misleading to refer to workers’ rights as red tape Brussels – 14 April 2021 - A new harvesting season has started but very little has changed for agricultural workers in Europe: undeclared work, poverty wages, deplorable health...
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...
Over 60 travel and tourism organisations unveil concrete recommendations for re-opening travel & tourism in Europe, including creation of Commission-led Task Force to restore freedom of movement. The European Tourism Manifesto alliance, a group of more than 60...
