European electricity and gas employment research project

The Steering Committee of the European Commission gas and electricity research project met with Commission staff and the consultants to consider the first results of the study, 13 March 2006.

EPSU stressed the importance to consider the issue of outsourcing. The study will now move into its second phase in which companies and social partners will be receiving a questionnaire and selected cases will be considered. The next meeting of the steering committee will be in June and a Workshop/ Conference on the results of the research project will be organised in Brussels, 16 October 2006.

The steering committee represents the social partners in the gas (Eurogas for the employers) and electricity (Eurelectric for the employers) sectors plus representatives of the European Commission, DG Employment, DG EcoFin and DG Energy. The Deputy General Secretary represented EPSU.

(15 March 2006)

European Federation of Public Service Unions
Representing 217 unions - 8 million public service workers