Equality for men and women in the workplace has been one of the longest standing aims of European social policy. Forty years after the adoption of the first Directive, and in spite of numerous initiatives by the European Union, there is still a long way to go to achieve full gender equality in the... Find out more

Deteriorating working conditions, lack of staff, job burnout: the health sector has been experiencing a serious crisis for a number of years. Across Europe, the trade unions are ringing alarm bells. The health of their members is at serious risk. In the countries worst affected by the recession, the... Find out more

In this special report, the European Trade Union Institute looks to identify the main factors that are undermining occupational health services in Europe: shortage of specialists, overwork that undermines the quality of services, loss of direct contact with actual working conditions, feeling of... Find out more

The latest issue of ETUI's HesaMag focuses on working conditions in the waste and recycling industries in Europe. Find out more

The special report of the latest issue of HesaMag looks at workers' exposure to chemical risks. Six years after the REACH Regulation came onto the books, is Europe’s chemicals market now kinder to health and the environment? Find out more

This issue carries a feature on standardization, an area governed by new European rules since January 2013. The regulations introduce a series of measures that open up new opportunities for trade unions to get more involved in the work of European standardization bodies. Find out more

Whatever lip-service may be paid to sustainable consuming, by far most European consumers still do their weekly shop in the big supermarket chains. A handful of groups have carved up this lucrative market and grown so powerful as to be able to drive producers’ selling prices steadily down. This is... Find out more

The European Working Time Directive has been grinding through a painful revision process since 2004. With Council and Parliament not seeing eye to eye, the buck was passed to the European social partners to come up with a proposed way out by September. Labour history shows us that working time has... Find out more

Business restructurings predate the outbreak of the financial then economic crisis in 2008. But they have certainly increased in number and intensity of late in most European countries either because of real economic difficulties or because the business cycle offered a perfect excuse for shedding... Find out more

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... Find out more