In this report, a complementary volume to Professor Frank Convery's Challenges for Urban Infrastructure in the EU, author George Cavallier takes as his starting point the main conclusions of UN Summit of Cities, Habitat II (1996) and sets out to explore the challenges posed to the cities of the EU
This reports analyses 386 agreements which had been signed when the Directive came into force on 22 September 1996, and Article 13 ceased as an option for the establishment of a European Works Council.
What is the extent of direct participation? To what degree can employees influence the organisation of work or control their working environment? What are the economic and social effects? In order to answer these and other questions the Foundation undertook a postal survey of European management
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has compiled a series of glossaries on industrial relations, labour markets and employment laws of the then 15 EC Member States. This volume deals with Luxembourg.
This brochure summarises the proceedings of a European conference which was held in the Hague in May 1997. The conference represented one of the first systematic attempts to explore the economics of occupational safety and health (OSH) at European, national and company levels. The participants were
EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on
This report summarizes a larger synthesis on the results of the Foundation reseearch on medium-sized cities at the core of which were case studies on 15 selected cities, mostly from the periphery of the European Union.
This is a summary of the final report from the Foundation's project on urban innovations, where authors Peter Hall and Charles Landry set out to assess the value from the point of view of innovativeness of a range of initiatives identified either in the course of the Foundation's research or
This document summarises key developments in policy and results from research to clarify the role and contribution of citizen action. It shows how it operates in local communities across the European Union and how it can be fostered. It suggests ways in which social and economic policy could benefit
A new online Sustainable Development Networks Directory, recently launched on the Foundation Web site (http://www.eurofound.ie), is just one element of a Foundation initiative that seeks to harness the power of the world wide web as an information medium to promote sustainable production and