The Foundation carried out its Third European Working Conditions Survey in the 15 Member States of the European Union (EU) in 2000. In 2001, the survey was extended to cover the 12 acceding and candidate countries and the following year the survey included Turkey. The aim was to provide an overview
This is a summary of the conference on 'Better work and life: towards an inclusive and competitive enlarged Union', co-organised by the Greek Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The broad theme of the conference
In 1999 the Foundation began a major research project on the nature and extent of financial participation in the EU. The first phase updated the legislative and financial practices in the Member States and the information contained in the European Commission's Pepper I and II reports. The second
This report documents the industrial relations situation in all 10 acceding countries – Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – as they prepare for Economic and Monetary Union. It is based on joint research carried out by the Foundation
The Foundation carried out its Third European Working Conditions Survey in the 15 Member States of the European Union (EU) in 2000. In 2001, the survey was extended to cover the 12 acceding and candidate countries and the following year the survey included Turkey. Working conditions in the acceding
This information sheet provides a brief overview of the report on working conditions in acceding and candidate countries. Up to now, there has been no common basis of description regarding working conditions in future Member States. Therefore, the Foundation embarked on a comprehensive survey in
The Foundation launched a research project to examine how to drive forward the social inclusion of people with illnesses. The term ‘illness’ refers in a broad sense to chronic (physical or mental) illness and disability. In concrete terms, the project aims to address the values and concepts
The comparative supplement in this issue of EIRObserver focuses on the situation across the EU (plus Norway) with regard to one specific issue raised by the growth of ICT at work - the relationship between internet/e-mail use at work and respect for workers’ privacy. It examines: the European and
This report, tackling 25 years of work by the Foundation on time and time related issues, represents an innovative attempt to draw together and consolidate the body of work carried out by the Foundation on this subject. In taking the large range of work on time as the main subject of analysis, the
This report demonstrates the form that the descriptive and analytical components of the monitoring programme on quality of life could take. If individual and national quality of life is to be improved in the European Union through evidence based social policy, this will require both descriptive and