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Maddalena Colombi
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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...
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 | Open Letter: The new CAP needs Social Conditionality
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...
International Migrants Day – Praising all migrant workers’ contribution to the EFFAT sectors
On International Migrants Day, EFFAT celebrates all migrant workers that allow some of its sectors to thrive. Over the last year, they have exposed their lives to provide essential services and kept vital sections of the economy going through the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
EFFAT – EFFE – EFSI – UNI-Europa Joint Statement on Personal and Household Services Workers Require Priority Access to COVID-19 vaccine
EFFAT, EFFE, EFSI and UNI Europa are delighted by the announcement that the European Commission is progressing with the acquisition of a large number of doses of an anti-Covid19 vaccine that will then be distributed to Member States[1]. The Commission’s prioritising...
Five urgent requests on EU-UK trade relations
Five urgent requests on EU-UK trade relations As the EU and UK trade negotiations seem be reaching a conclusion, Europe's farmers and agri-cooperatives, food manufacturers, traders, and agri-food sector workers have issued the following joint statement outing what...
Roadmap to rebuild the hospitality sector : Joint statement EFFAT – HOTREC
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 follow a range of proposed measures to put...
European Commission Guidelines on Seasonal Workers: An encouraging step forward , but binding measures must be adopted soon
The European Commission issued today the long-awaited guidelines on seasonal workers in the context of the Covid-19 outbreak. The new Guidelines complement the Guidelines concerning the exercise of the free movement of workers during COVID-19 outbreak, published on 30...
Worker involvement in managing the Covid-19 crisis – Joint statement of the ETUC and ETUFs industriAll Europe, UNI Europa, EFFAT, EPSU, ETF, EFBWW
Time is running out: Concrete and rapid actions needed to enforce rights to worker involvement in anticipating and managing the COVID-19 crisis impact Three months after the COVID-19 health crisis hit the world and thousands lost their lives, the European Union is now...
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