Employment and Social Policy

European employment strategy

• COVID-19 crisis — recommendations on effective active support to employment
• Youth Guarantee
• InvestEU Programme (2021-2027)
• Guidelines on employment policies
• Flexicurity — a crucial element in modernising the EU’s labour market
• European Fund for Strategic Investments
• European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
• EURES: Job search services across the EU
• EU umbrella programme for employment and social policy: EaSI
• EU countries’ employment policies: guidelines (2018)
• Enhanced cooperation between public employment services
• Employment Committee​

•  Skills & vocational education and training
  • Cooperation in vocational education and training (VET)
  • Mutual learning programme
  • Job creation potential in the environmental sector
  • Modernising vocational education and training in Europe
  • Generating entrepreneurship in education and training
  • Europass — supporting learning and working in Europe
  • Ensuring quality in vocational education and training (VET)
  • Education systems — the key to a skilled workforce and more jobs​

Health & safety at work

• Health and safety at work: exposure to noise
• Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities
• The EU’s Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
• Preventing injuries to healthcare workers: EU social partners' agreement
• Preventing and reducing chemically induced illnesses and injuries at work
• Lifting COVID-19 containment measures — roadmap
• Health and safety of workers: conditions applicable to the workplace
• Health and safety at work — general rules
• Workplaces & equipment
  • Equipment used in potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX)
  • Work with display screen equipment
  • Use of personal protective equipment
  • Temporary and mobile work sites
  • Safety at work - manual handling of loads
  • Provision of health and safety signs at work
  • Medical treatment on board vessels
  • Minimum health and safety standards while using work equipment
  • Health and safety of workers in the extractive industries
  • Fishing vessels — health and safety of workers on board
• Chemical, physical & biological agents
  • Dangers arising from ionising radiation (from 2018)
  • Setting basic safety standards for exposure to ionising radiation (from 2018)
  • Risk of explosive atmospheres
  • Protection of workers from exposure to biological agents
  • Limiting the exposure of workers to risks from electromagnetic fields (from July 2016)
  • Exposure to mechanical vibration
  • Exposure to chemical agents
  • Exposure to carcinogens and mutagens
  • Exposure to asbestos: worker protection
  • Exposure to artificial optical radiation

Labour law

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
• Transparent and predictable working conditions in the EU
• Proportionality test for new regulation of professions
• Protection of specific categories of workers
  • Equal treatment of temporary agency workers
  • Workplace health and safety for temporary workers
  • Reintegrating the long-term unemployed into the labour market
  • Protection of young people at work
  • Part-time work
  • Protecting pregnant workers and new mothers
  • Making fishing at sea a safer profession
  • Making decent working conditions a reality for domestic workers
  • ILO Forced Labour Protocol: ratification by EU countries
  • Fixed-term work
• Working conditions
  • Employee protection in the event of an insolvent employer
  • Stepping up the enforcement of EU legislation on the posting of workers
  • Teleworking
  • Organisation of working time
  • Protecting employment rights when business ownership is transferred
  • Informing employees of their working conditions
  • Working time rules
    • Cross-border train crews — working conditions
    • Working hours on board ships using EU ports
    • Workers’ health and safety in the mineral-extracting industries
    • Seafarers’ working time
    • Work-life balance for parents and carers
    • Road transport: EU rules on the organisation of the working time of professional drivers
    • Inland waterway transport – jobs and skills
    • Driving time and rest periods in the road transport sector
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• Protection against discrimination
  • Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities
  • Equality between women and men
    • Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
    • Social security — equal treatment for men and women
    • Self-employment — equal treatment between men and women
    • Work-life balance for parents and carers
    • Principle of equal treatment of men and women outside the employment market
    • Parental leave
    • Protecting pregnant workers and new mothers
    • Gender equality in the labour market
    • European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
    • EU accession to Istanbul Convention
    • Equal treatment in employment and occupation
  • Work-life balance
    • Protecting pregnant workers and new mothers
    • Work-life balance for parents and carers
    • Parental leave
  • Other forms of discrimination at work
    • Accessibility of products and services
    • Roma equality, inclusion and participation
    • Protection at international level of the rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities
    • National Roma integration strategies: common European framework
    • Equal treatment irrespective of racial or ethnic origin
    • Directive implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in the EU
    • Accessibility of public sector websites and mobile apps

Protection against discrimination

•  Equal treatment for women & men
  • Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
  • Work-life balance for parents and carers
  • Equal treatment in employment and occupation
  • EU accession to Istanbul Convention
  • European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
  • Gender equality in the labour market
  • Principle of equal treatment of men and women outside the employment market
  • Protecting pregnant workers and new mothers
  • Parental leave
  • Social security — equal treatment for men and women
  • Self-employment — equal treatment between men and women
•  Work-life balance
  • Parental leave
  • Work-life balance for parents and carers
  • Protecting pregnant workers and new mother 
•  Other forms of discrimination at work
  • Accessibility of products and services
  • Directive implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in the EU
  • Equal treatment irrespective of racial or ethnic origin
  • Roma equality, inclusion and participation
  • National Roma integration strategies: common European framework
  • Protection at international level of the rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities
  • Accessibility of public sector websites and mobile apps​

Social inclusion & social protection

• Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities
• Social investment — Fight against poverty
  • COVID-19 crisis — recommendations on effective active support to employment
  • Sport — a spur to innovation and excellence
  • Social security system — Cooperation between EU countries
  • Towards more socially inclusive growth in the EU
  • Monitoring the effectiveness of EU countries’ social protection policies
  • Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage
  • Guidelines on employment policies
  • Innovation and social inclusion through culture and creativity
  • EU strategy on the rights of the child and the European child guarantee
  • EU fight against poverty and social exclusion
  • Coordination of social security systems
• Pensions & health care
  • European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
  • Supplementary pensions - keeping your rights when moving abroad
  • The EU’s healthcare workforce
  • Safeguarding supplementary pension rights
  • Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP)
  • Managing collective retirement schemes — occupational pension funds
  • Healthcare in other EU countries — patients’ rights
  • Insurance and occupational pensions: advisory committee
• Social dialogue & employee participation
  • Social dialogue
    • European Cooperative Society
    • Sectoral social dialogue
    • Work-life balance for parents and carers
    • Guidelines on employment policies
    • European social dialogue
  • Employee participation
    • Collective redundancies: staff information and consultation
    • Statute for a European Company
    • Informing and consulting employees — European Works Councils
    • EU general rules on employee information and consultation
• Moving & working in the EU
  • Driving European recovery
  • Supplementary pensions - keeping your rights when moving abroad
  • Stepping up the enforcement of EU legislation on the posting of workers
  • Free movement of workers
  • European Labour Authority
  • European health insurance card
  • EURES: Job search services across the EU
• Agencies
  • Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
  • The EU’s Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
  • European Training Foundation (ETF)
  • European Labour Authority
  • European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
  • European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions
  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
  • Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work (ACSH)
• Funding
  • An investment plan for Europe
  • Thematic objectives for the ESI Funds
  • Temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak (SURE)
  • REACT-EU — Recovery assistance for cohesion and the territories of Europe
  • InvestEU Programme (2021-2027)
  • Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD)
  • European Social Fund Plus — ESF+ (2021-2027)
  • European Social Fund
  • European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (2021-2027)
  • European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014-2020)
  • European Fund for Strategic Investments
  • EU umbrella programme for employment and social policy: EaSI
  • EU Recovery and Resilience Facility
• European statistics
  • Common rules for the collection of census data on population and housing
  • Statistics related to vocational training
  • Statistics on public health/health & safety at work
  • Statistics on earnings and labour costs
  • Quarterly statistics on job vacancies in EU countries
  • European statistics on persons and households
  • European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)
  • Demography statistics
  • Comparable EU-wide labour cost statistics