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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...
Poverty wages in the German meat sector are a European problem. And it needs fixing, now!
Ahead of the next round of collective bargaining negotiations on 29 March 2021, EFFAT is sending solidarity and much strength to all of its NGG affiliates in the meat sector fighting for better wages and working conditions. Last year’s COVID-19 outbreaks in several...
Press Release | Rebuilding the Hospitality sector
HOTREC, the European umbrella association of Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés, and its trade union counterpart EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, call upon the EU and Member States to prolong the EU and national funding as long...
IWD 2021 – A World of Work free from gender-based violence and harassment
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...
Europe’s travel & tourism sector calls on EU governments to chart restart plan in time for summer
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...
Press Release | The Sugar Sector in the future EU Trade Policy
On 18 February 2021, the European Commission published a Communication on the new EU Trade Strategy based on openness, sustainability, and assertiveness.1 Brussels – 24 February 2021: CIBE (International Confederation of European Beet Growers), CEFS (Association of...
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