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Coming Up! EFFAT Webinar “Towards inclusion and equal treatment for all mobile and migrant workers” | 21 June 2021 @ 2-5 PM
EFFAT is holding the websinar: ' Towards inclusion and equal treatment for all mobile and migrant workers” on 21 June 2021 from 14:00 to 17:00. The webinar will be an occasion to present the EFFAT demands for action on labour mobility and migration and exchange with...
International Domestic Workers’ Day – Ratify the ILO #C189 Now!
16 June 2021 - Today, on International Domestic Workers’ Day, EFFAT celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Domestic Workers Convention, No.189 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the baseline for labour standards in the sector . Over the last year and a...
EFFAT adopts new positions on labour mobility & migration and ending glyphosate
On 1 June 2021 EFFAT held its second and very participated Executive Committee meeting of the year. During a fruitful, day-long discussion with affiliates, EFFAT made key progress on two milestones of this year’ EFFAT action plan 2021. Key demands to protect migrant...
Failure of CAP trilogue negotiations is a missed opportunity. EFFAT’s fight for a CAP that delivers for farm workers continues
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...
New digital tools for enforcing mobile workers’ rights
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...
A transforming European sugar industry focus of 1st EFFAT/CEFS workshop
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...
28 April – Workers Memorial Day: Health & Safety is your right!
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...
Workers’ influence on outsourcing, tender processes and transfer of employment contracts: watch the gap!
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...
How are Domestic Workers organised in your country? Fill in our Survey!
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...
Time for a CAP that upholds the respect for workers’ rights! Time for social conditionality!
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...
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