Based on the work of the ETUI-REHS Research Group on Transnational Trade Union Rights (co-ordinator, Professor Brian Bercusson), this publication assesses the Opinions of the Advocates General of the Court in Laval and Viking cases and proposes six solutions which may be considered satisfactory from... Find out more

This paper is an extract from the publication Collective bargaining on working time. Recent European experiences. Find out more

EMPHASIS SHOULD BE PUT ON JOB QUALITY European labour markets face a range of significant challenges for which the current institutional and political answers are at the cost of the quality of jobs, quality of employment opportunities and workers' rights. Benchmarking Working Europe 2007 shows how... Find out more

Publication date: 2003 Generally speaking, women's issues are absent from health and safety policies: the hazards involved are either unknown or underestimated; and priorities are defined in male-dominated sectors and occupations, and so on. This failure to take account of women's health issues in... Find out more

A new bargaining agenda is indeed emerging, but its outline is not easy to determine because, on the one hand, monetary union precludes any wage drift and, on the other, the terms of a new deal are difficult to establish.The introduction to Social pacts in Europe - new dynamics is a set of four... Find out more

Publication date: 1998This book follows on from 1994 study on how preventive provision was organised in the European Union of 12 Member States. The author applies the same analytical approach to Austria, Finland and Sweden as well as to Switzerland and Norway. Because the national situations... Find out more

Publication date: 2000The EU's so-called "New Approach" Directives, which harmonise safety rules for a range of industrial goods, play up the role of private players on the market: manufacturers, standards bodies, certification bodies.Ian Fraser's report focusses on the role of that other crucial... Find out more

Publication date: 2004How can workers' experience and knowledge be made to inform the development of standards and design of the equipment the work with?That is one issue that tops the ETUI Health and safety department's agenda as the trade union representative to the European Committee for... Find out more

Publication date: 2002 This publication sets the European standardization process in its changing context where European standards are increasingly being framed at the international level. The development of standards to fill out the European directives that ensure free movement for work equipment... Find out more

Publication date: 2003The EU's Machinery Directive has now been in force for ten years, but we still know little enough about how it is being applied in Member States' own systems. The ETUI Health and Safety department saw a pressing need to look in detail at how it was being implemented and draw... Find out more