Employment and Social Policy

European employment strategy

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

•  Skills & vocational education and training
  • Ensuring quality in vocational education and training (VET)
  • Mutual learning programme
  • Cooperation in vocational education and training (VET)
  • Job creation potential in the environmental sector
  • Generating entrepreneurship in education and training
  • Europass — supporting learning and working in Europe
  • Education systems — the key to a skilled workforce and more jobs
  • Priorities for vocational education and training (2011-2020)
  • Enhanced EU cooperation in vocational education and training
  • Modernising vocational education and training in Europe

Health & safety at work

• The EU’s Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
• Lifting COVID-19 containment measures — roadmap

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

Labour law

• Charter of Fundamental Rights
• Transparent and predictable working conditions in the EU
• Proportionality test for new regulation of professions

•  Protection of specific categories of workers
  • Making fishing at sea a safer profession
  • ILO Forced Labour Protocol: ratification by EU countries
  • Protecting pregnant workers and new mothers
  • Reintegrating the long-term unemployed into the labour market
  • Part-time work
  • Making decent working conditions a reality for domestic workers
  • Workplace health and safety for temporary workers
  • Equal treatment of temporary agency workers
  • Protection of young people at work
  • Undeclared work — cooperation between EU countries
  • Fixed-term work
•  Working conditions
  • European Labour Authority
  • Teleworking
  •  General rules
    • Stepping up the enforcement of EU legislation on the posting of workers
    • Organisation of working time
    • Informing employees of their working conditions
    • Protecting employment rights when business ownership is transferred
    • Employee protection in the event of an insolvent employer
  •  Working time rules
    • Workers’ health and safety in the mineral-extracting industries
    • Inland waterway transport — jobs and skills
    • Seafarers’ working time
    • Cross-border train crews — working conditions
    • Working hours on board ships using EU ports
    • Driving time in the road transport sector
    • Work-life balance for parents and carers
    • Road transport: EU rules on the organisation of the working time of professional drivers

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
    • Social security system — Cooperation between EU countries
    • Towards more socially inclusive growth in the EU
    • COVID-19 crisis — recommendations on effective active support to employment
    • Coordination of social security systems
    • EU strategy on the rights of the child and the European child guarantee
    • EU fight against poverty and social exclusion
    • Innovation and social inclusion through culture and creativity
    • Monitoring the effectiveness of EU countries’ social protection policies
    • Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage
    • Guidelines on employment policies
    • Sport — a spur to innovation and excellence
  • Pensions & health care
    • Safeguarding supplementary pension rights
    • The EU’s healthcare workforce
    • Supplementary pensions - keeping your rights when moving abroad
    • European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
    • Insurance and occupational pensions: advisory committee
    • Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP)
    • Managing collective retirement schemes — occupational pension funds
    • Healthcare in other EU countries — patients’ rights

Social dialogue & employee participation

•  Social dialogue
  • ​Sectoral social dialogue
  • Work-life balance for parents and carers
  • European Cooperative Society
  • European social dialogue
  • Guidelines on employment policies
•  Employee participation
  • Informing and consulting employees — European Works Councils
  • Statute for a European Company
  • Collective redundancies: staff information and consultation
  • EU general rules on employee information and consultation​

Moving & working in the EU

• EURES: Job search services across the EU
• Supplementary pensions - keeping your rights when moving abroad
• Stepping up the enforcement of EU legislation on the posting of workers
• Driving European recovery
• European Labour Authority
• European health insurance card
• Free movement of workers​

Agencies

• Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
• The EU’s Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
• European Labour Authority
• European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
• European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions
• European Training Foundation (ETF)
• European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
• Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work (ACSH)​

Funding

• InvestEU Programme (2021-2027)
• 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
• An investment plan for Europe
• EU umbrella programme for employment and social policy: EaSI
• Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD)
• European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (2021-2027)
• European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014-2020)
• European Fund for Strategic Investments
• EU Recovery and Resilience Facility
• European Social Fund Plus — ESF+ (2021-2027)
• European Social Fund​

European statistics

• European statistics on persons and households
• Statistics on public health/health & safety at work
• Statistics on earnings and labour costs
• Statistics related to vocational training
• Demography statistics
• Common rules for the collection of census data on population and housing
• Comparable EU-wide labour cost statistics
• Quarterly statistics on job vacancies in EU countries
• European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS)​