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SOCIAL POLICY - EMPLOYMENT - INCLUSION

EU Legislation

Employmen, Social Policy an Inclusion

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​
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  •  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
Sources: European Union, http://www.europa.eu/, 1995-2025, 

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