81% of workers say their working hours fit well, or very well, with their private life obligations. However men continue to have longer working hours (on average 6.5 hours per week more than women) and report more difficulties adapting working time to family life or other commitments. This is...
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04 September 2017NewsAt the XXI World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, held in Singapore on 3‑6 September, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) together with the International Labour Organization present new estimates of the cost of poor occupational safety and health (OSH). The new... -
17 August 2017News(Dublin, Ireland): The difference in working time between workers in the 28 EU Member States remains large and is especially marked between the ‘older’ 15 EU Member States and the 13 new Member States that joined the EU since 2004, according to new research from Eurofound. This is particularly... -
15 August 2017NewsEurofound provides systematic and comparable data on national industrial relations systems and developments in working life. This is done through monitoring and reporting tools integrated in the European Observatory of Working Life (EurWORK).Eurofound has launched a stakeholder survey in an effort... -
03 August 2017NewsThis blog piece was originally posted on Social Europe. Its authors are Martina Bisello and Enrique Fernández-Macías, both researchers at Eurofound, and Vincenzo Maccarrone, from University College Dublin. The Great Recession had lasting effects on European labour markets, both in terms of... -
28 July 2017NewsOn the occasion of World Day against Trafficking in Persons we invite you to download or order our publication on Regulation of labour market intermediaries and the role of social partners in preventing trafficking of labour. The right to free movement for workers within the European Union... -
26 July 2017NewsThis blog piece, originally posted on Social Europe, is based on research carried out by its author, John Hurley, jointly with Enrique Fernandez-Macias and other researchers for Eurofound in the European Jobs Monitor (EJM) project. The EJM tracks structural change in... -
20 July 2017NewsIn the following blog piece, an update from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor, Eurofound's EU-level network correspondent Andrea Broughton describes the troubled recent history and uncertain future of the Italian airline Alitalia. The next few months will determine... -
18 July 2017NewsThere were close to 23 million unemployed people of working age in the EU in 2015 but around 50 million people in a broader category of labour slack, encompassing inactive people wishing to work and underemployed, involuntary part-timers as well as the unemployed, according... -
17 July 2017NewsThere was previously a significant increase in the temporary employment rate, particularly since the late 1980s. This occurred, for example, in France and Spain between 1985 and 1995, Sweden in the early 1990s and Germany in the early 2000s. More recently, the large increase in Poland was...
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