In 1989, the Member States of the European Union set minimum rules on how prevention in the workplace was to be organized. It was a unanimous decision of the EU Council of Ministers. But would it turn governments into more preventively-minded employers?One singular fact about the Framework Directive... Find out more

The focus of the article is labour mobility within the European Union (EU) and how the current trends may be influenced by the impending accession of the central and eastern European Countries (CEECs). The findings are based on a number of recent studies conducted by various authors. Starting from a... Find out more

90.000 occupational disease cases will be avoided in Europe, saving 3.5 billion euros over 10 years for the EU-25. These are the mind-boggling figures to come out of this ETUC report. The study on how REACH will benefit workers' health was done by researchers from the University of Sheffield... Find out more

Sustainable development goes to issues that are fundamental for trade unions - issues like hazards, democracy, the principles of justice and access to natural resources. These issues are also central to the current agenda on the EU's future and its international role.The ETUI Health and Safety... Find out more

The Commission's new health and safety at work strategy 2002-2006 gives notice of Community initiatives on MSD. Although it is still vague as to exactly what shape they will take, the announcement sets the seal on trade unions' long-standing efforts to put MSD at the centre of the European debate... Find out more

In 2002, the European Commission issued its Community strategy on health and safety at work, 2002-2006. The ETUI Health and Safety department stepped into the debates on framing the new strategy with a European trade union consensus paper published jointly with the ETUC.Whatever impact our proposals... Find out more