Psychosocial risks

Methodological changes introduced in the last Spanish Working Conditions Survey – that is, collecting data only among workers and conducting interviews in the worker’s home instead of at the workplace – allowed gathering information on several, previously ignored groups of workers. This includes

In June 2005, a project on ‘Work organisation restructuring in the knowledge society’ (WORKS [1]) was launched, funded by the European Commission [2] under the Sixth Framework Programme [3]. The WORKS project analysed the impact of organisational change – taking place in the context of restructuring

The project ‘Workplace stress – prevention opportunities’ focuses on the identification of the most frequent and significant stressors in the workplace and also seeks to examine the stress factor of excessive mental load and other negative phenomena such as harassment and violence [1] in public

Since the Labour Market Commission (Arbejdsmarkedskommissionen [1]) thematised early retirement from the labour market, the issue has been widely debated and analysed. The Labour Market Commission was set up in December 2007 to propose initiatives to permanently increase employment, while tackling

The project ‘QUALITY of life in a changing Europe [1]’ (2006–2009) has been conducted in eight countries – Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the UK – under the European Community Sixth Framework Programme. Based on quantitative and qualitative research, the

The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv [1]) recently published a study (in Swedish, 262Kb PDF) [2] to evaluate employers’ perspectives on the reasons behind some workers’ dissatisfaction and inability to get on at work. The research is a follow-up to an earlier study (in Swedish

An increasing number of workers in Norway are immigrants. At the beginning of 2008, this group accounted for about 9% of the economically active population. The occupational distribution among immigrants, however, differs significantly from that of the total workforce in Norway. Immigrants are more

In March 2009, the Centre for the Research of Health at Work (Centro de Investigación en Salud Laboral, CISAL [1]) within the University Pompeu Fabra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF [2]) published the report ‘Immigration, work and health’ (ITSAL: Inmigración, Trabajo y Salud (3.9Mb PDF) [3]). The