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Discounting the workers: conditions in the retail sector

This 6th issue of the HesaMag looks at working conditions in the retail sector, with a special focus on employees in the mainly grocery store. The supermarket boom has given jobs to hundreds of thousands of Europeans, very many of them young people. This foothold in the working world, however, can now only be had by giving up some expectations about well-being at work, and even a home life.

Date: 17/12/2012

Editorial

Ringing the changes on working conditions is a start to exiting the crisis

Special report - Discounting the workers: conditions in the retail sector

Previous issues

Paying the price for putting in the hours

This issue carries an item on working time and its impact on workers’ health. Aside from the revision of the Working Time directive, which the social partners are currently trying to get back on track, we look at the trend towards increasingly flexible working times and its repercussions on health as well as social and family life. While no category of workers is immune, the least skilled and women seem to be hardest hit. You can also read an interview in this issue with Judith Kirton, the new ETUC confederal secretary with responsibility for health and safety at work.

N° 5/2012
Restructurings: workers' health at crisis point

Since the 2008 crisis eruption, business restructurings have increased in most European countries either because of real economic difficulties or because the business cycle offered a perfect excuse for shedding jobs. This 4th issue of the HesaMag looks at the consequences for workers’ health mainly through three examples: French public hospitals, an industrial giant’s German factory, and a Belgian SME glassmaker. The workers interviewed suffer from similar things: the fear of poverty, feelings of helplessness, lack of recognition and respect for the work done, the worry of deskilling.

N° 4/2011
Social inequalities in health: the impact of work

In health terms, we have been seeing for the past twenty years or so that the gulf between the well-off and the working classes has been growing. HesaMag, the ETUI’s occupational health magazine, is using its latest issue to spotlight how working conditions and the new ways of organising work impact on these health inequalities.

N° 3/2011