On the 20th of September 2006 EPSU and HOSPEEM (the European Hospital and Healthcare employers’ association) launched the Social Dialogue Committee for the Hospital Sector.
The Committee has adopted in its first years a joint declaration on health services and a Code of Conduct on Ethical Cross-border Recruitment and Retention. In December 2010 EPSU and HOSPEEM signed a Framework of Actions Recruitment and Retention.
It also successively concluded a project on Social Dialogue in the new EU-Member States. On the 23rd of June 2008 the Committee adopted their second Joint Work Programme.
This Work Programme 2008-2010 is centred on 5 main themes:
Retention
Strengthening Social Dialogue Structures
The ageing workforce
Third-party violence
New skill needs
2 December 2011
Borschette Center Room AB 3C: rue Froissart 36, 1040 - Brussels
We are pleased to invite you to the next Plenary Meeting of the Hospital Sector Social Dialogue Committee will be held on Friday 2 December 2011 at the Borschette Centre, Room AB 3C. It will start at 9h15 and end at 13h00.
The EPSU-HOSPEEM Steering Committee will meet as from 08h30 till 09h15.
It will be followed by a preparatory meeting for EPSU participants (separate trade union group meeting) from 09h15 (...)
Borschette Center: rue Froissart 36 - 1040 Brussels
26 October 2011: 9h30 -16h00
We are pleased to invite you to the next working group meeting of the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for the Hospital Sector on Wednesday 26 October 2011 from 09h30 – 16h00 in Brussels (venue to be confirmed).
The EPSU-HOSPEEM Steering Committee (on behalf of EPSU made up of the Presidency of the EPSU Standing Committee “Health and Social Services”) will meet with colleagues of HOSPEEM at 9h30. All other (...)
Borschette Center: rue Froissart 36 - 1040 Brussels 16 September 2011: 9.30 -16.00
Key Dates EPSU HSS 2011 (updated version of 30 June 2011)
Preparation of Working Group on 16 September 2011
Invitation - EPSU LC Nr 60 (2011)
Draft agenda
EC Invitation
Please bring your EC invitation and your passport / ID card to enter the Borschette Center
Please note that there are some discrepancies in the EC invitation, therefore just take into account what is drafted in our (...)
(13 September 2011) The department of health, social services, social welfare and churches of German EPSU member ver.di (Vereinigte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft) recently issued two publications focusing on the challenges and perspectives of long-term care and elderly care services and the care workers in Germany. Both publications illustrate well how topics such as the ageing workforce in health and social care or migrant care workers that have become the object of various initiatives of (...)
HOSPEEM and EPSU recognize the inequalities and unnecessary burdens on healthcare systems, caused by unethical recruitment practices in the EU. The European social partners in the hospital sector want to address this situation and developed this code of conduct, the aim of which is to promote ethical and stop unethical practices in cross-border recruitment of health workers (...)
(July 12) Godfrey Perera, Secretary General of HOSPEEM (European hospital and healthcare employers’ association) and Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, General Secretary (European Federation of Public Service Unions) met yesterday Commissioner John Dalli to discuss cooperation between DG SANCO and the recognised European Social Partners in the hospital and healthcare sector.
The meeting built the foundation for co-operation with the social partners in the hospital and health care sector. (...)
Hospital Sector Social Dialogue Committee Plenary Meeting
1 July 2011: 09h30-17h00 Borschette Center, rue Froissart, 36 1040 - Brussels
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the next Plenary Meeting of the Hospital Sector Social Dialogue Committee which will be held on Friday 1 July 2011. It will start at 09h30 and end at approximately 17h00.
A preparatory meeting for EPSU participants will take place from 09h30-10h30 in the meeting venue, most probably in the meeting room (...)
HOSPEEM and EPSU recognize the inequalities and unnecessary burdens on healthcare systems, caused by unethical recruitment practices in the EU. The European social partners in the hospital sector want to address this situation and developed this code of conduct, the aim of which is to promote ethical and stop unethical practices in cross-border recruitment of health workers (...)
Retention
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