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Out Now! – EU Sugar Corporate Social Responsibility Report
EFFAT and the European Sugar Producers (CEFS), released the Sixteenth EU Sugar Corporate Social Responsibility Report as a result of the joint commitment to improving the sustainability of the sugar sector. As the report covers the years 2020 and 2021, the focus of...
Care workers and providers stand for a European Care Strategy inclusive of Migrants
EFFAT together with stakeholders in the care and PHS sectors has released joint recommendations for the inclusions of migrants in the forthcoming European Care Strategy and accompanying Council recommendations, both as workers and providers of care as well as care...
Tackling undeclared work in the PHS sector
On March 2022, PHS Social Partners issued a set of recommendations calling Member States, the European Labour Authority and the European Commission to implement concrete actions that will contribute to the reduction of undeclared work in PHS. EFFAT, EFFE, EFSI and UNI...
The relaunch of tourism needs a more sustainable and socially responsible vision: A letter to the EU French Presidency
EFFAT and its French affiliates write to EU French Presidency ahead of upcoming Ministerial Conference of Tourism Ministers 14 March 2022 | Ahead of the upcoming 17 March 2022 Informal Ministerial Conference of Tourism Ministers in Dijon, EFFAT, together with its...
Employers and Trade Unions in the PHS sectors join forces and adopt new strategy to raise the profile of the sector in Europe
EFFAT – EFFE – EFSI – UNI-Europa joint Press Release Employers and Trade Unions in Personal and Household Services (PHS) sealed their commitment towards increased recognition for the PHS sectors - which employs almost 5% of the entire EU workforce- by adopting a...
Social Partners launch the Online interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) tool in the agriculture sector
Today, representatives of the European Social Partners in Agriculture, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) and the Employers’ Group of Professional Agricultural Organisations in the European Union (GEOPA), have officially...
EFFAT Releases final report on joint EFFAT-CEFS Project “A transforming European sugar industry”
The joint EFFAT-CEFS Sugar project “A transforming European sugar industry. New and better jobs in a competitive, innovative and sustainable industry” tackling the future of jobs in the EU sugar sector, the greening of the economy and the intra-EU labour mobility and...
EWC set up at Intersnack
EFFAT has contributed to the negotiations that led to the set-up of a European Works Council (EWC) at Intersnack Group. The EWC will ensure that the group workers coming from 20 different member states will be informed and consulted by management on economic, social...
European Trade Union Representatives support Decarbonisation of Aviation and call for Social Sustainability to underpin a just transition towards Carbon-Neutrality
Joint press release – ETF, ETUC, EFFAT, UNI Europa, IndustriAll Europe and ECA Brussels, 7 January 2022 The ETF, ETUC, EFFAT, UNI Europa, IndustriAll Europe and ECA welcome the Toulouse Declaration on future sustainability and decarbonisation in aviation, which was...
Joint Statement on Eurofound’s Industrial relations landscape report
The PHS (Personal Household Services) sector social partners EFFAT, EFFE, EFSI and UNI Europa welcome the publication of the EUROFOUND report "“Industrial relations landscape report on Central government administration, education, human health, local and regional...
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