Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work: Opinion Update of Commission Recommendation 2003/670/EC concerning the European schedule of occupational disease to include COVID-19

May 18, 2022 | IR Doc, Legislation

Covid-19 to be recognised as an occupational disease On 18 May 2022, Member States and social partners sitting on the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work (ACSH) reached an agreement on the need to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease in the...

European Commission: Recommendation to encourage Member States to align their rules with the proposed EU law

Apr 27, 2022 | IR Doc, Legislation

Preventing “strategic lawsuits against public participation” Following the adoption of Directive 2019/1937 of 23 October 2019 on whistleblower protection (see Whistleblower protection), on 27 April 2022, the European Commission unveiled measures to enhance the...

European Commission: proposal for a directive covering strategic lawsuits against public participation in civil matters

Apr 27, 2022 | IR Doc, Legislation

Preventing “strategic lawsuits against public participation” Following the adoption of Directive 2019/1937 of 23 October 2019 on whistleblower protection (see Whistleblower protection), on 27 April 2022, the European Commission unveiled measures to enhance the...

Social dialogue: Position of the European Trade Union Federations on the European Commission’s review of social dialogue

Mar 15, 2022 | European sectoral social dialogue, European Social Dialogue, IR Doc

Just as the Commission is about to put forward a revision of European social dialogue rules in the second half of 2022, the nine European trade-union federations have published a joint position, which has the merit of being very clear: whenever the social partners...

European Commisison: Proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence

Mar 8, 2022 | Legislation

On 8 March, the European Commission published a proposal for a directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence (see press release). This proposal is very timid in cases where violence is perpetrated in the workplace or affects the employment...