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EU Legislation

EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL POLICY

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)
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  •  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)​
Source:  European Union, http://www.europa.eu/, 1998-2023
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