EurWORK European Observatory of Working Life
Topical updates
Topical updates summarise and update developments around selected topics, which are relevant across a number of Member States at the same time. They are mainly based on reporting from Eurofound’s network of European correspondents.
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Working time – Q2 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings on aspects of working time in the EU during the second quarter of 2014. Workers’ satisfaction with working hours, workers’ rights to request flexible working hours and weekend work are the main focus of the report.
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New strategies, legislative developments and activities: Skills, learning and employability – Q1 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings on aspects of skills and learning at work in the EU during the first quarter of 2014. Lifelong learning, legislative developments on skills, collective bargaining and vocational training are the main focus of this report.
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Telework, employee involvement: Work organisation - Q1 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This quarterly presents some of the key developments and research findings on aspects of work organisation in workplaces in the EU during the first quarter of 2014. Telework and working from home, employee involvement and participation at work are the main focus of this report.
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Workplace innovation and employee participation: Work organisation - Q2 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings on aspects of work organisation in workplaces in the EU during the second quarter of 2014. Initiatives around workplace innovation, employee involvement and participation at work are the main focus of the report.
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Pay developments: Pay - Q1 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings in the EU during the first quarter of 2014. It features trends in pay, collective wage bargaining, wage-setting mechanisms and issues around minimum wages and equal pay.
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Pay developments: Pay - Q2 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings on pay in the EU during the second quarter of 2014. Post-crisis shifts in pay levels, national debates on the minimum wage and research into the gender pay gap are the main focus of this report.
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Combating abuse of traineeship and social welfare fraud: Individual employment relations - Q2 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings on aspects of individual employment relations in the EU during the second quarter of 2014. The protection of trainees and the prevention of social welfare benefit fraud are the main focus of this report.
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Health and well-being at work - Q1 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings on health and well-being in workplaces in the EU during the first quarter of 2014. Physical and psychosocial risk factors, work-related health and well-being outcomes, violence and harassment at work and occupational health and safety are the main focus of this report.
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Health and well-being at work - Q2 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings on health and well-being in workplaces in the EU during the second quarter of 2014. The new strategic framework on health and safety, work–life balance, patterns of sick leave and initiatives to combat violence and harassment are the main focus of the report.
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Individual employment relations - Q1 2014 (EurWORK topical update)
This article presents some of the key developments and research findings on aspects of individual employment relations in the EU during the first quarter of 2014. The terms and conditions of employment, entitlements and obligations and aspects related to the termination of the employment relationship are the main focus of this article.
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