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This edition of BEST focuses on compressed working hours, in its various forms, calling, as usual, on the experience of the BEST network, and its members’ experience of several different European economies. BEST is the Bulletin of European Studies on Time, offering condensed and practical

As pressures increase on the budgets of social protection systems and on the competitiveness of companies, more attention is being paid to measures to reduce workplace absenteeism and its cost. This booklet draws together the main results and conclusions from a study in all EU countries and Norway

The positive management of an ageing workforce presents a new, if necessary, challenge to governments, employers and to workers themselves in the European Union. This report provides illustration and analysis of more than 150 initiatives in favour of the retention, retraining and reintegration of

The Foundation in collaboration with the European Commission, set out to establish how aspects of labour law, social security and health and safety affect tele-workplaces in the 15 EU countries. This report summarises a series of three reports consolidating the results of these studies. They provide

Over nearly a decade, the Foundation has led a Europe-wide programme of research, policy development and training for workplace health promotion (WHP). In this time the Foundation has commissioned the largest single research programme on WHP to take place in Europe and possible anywhere in the world

The current programme of work ‘Facing up to the challenges of European society’, taking the Foundation up to the year 2000, examines the issues the people of Europe must deal with in the coming years. They are: employment, health and well-being, social cohesion, equal opportunities, sustainable

Eurocounsel, an action research programme of the European Foundation, has examined how guidance and counselling services are responding to the needs of the unemployed, those at risk of unemployment and the requirements of the labour market in the 1990s. Initiated in 1991 it has been based primarily

Precarious employment not only covers employees with fixed term and temporary contracts - and some categories of self-employed workers - but also workers with low incomes and/or short working hours. This publication summarises the extent, consequences and reasons for precarious employment in order