Social Services
Time to Care: towards a Better Deal for Care workers in Europe
07 MARCH 2008, Brussels, ITUH
On the eve of International Women’s Day, 07 March 2008, EPSU organizes a workshop on pay and working conditions in the care sector to discuss trade union strategies towards a better deal for care workers, a majority of whom are women.
The care sector is an important employer of women. It is caracterised by full of precarious and low-wage jobs, irregular working hours and does not (...)
EPSU CARE WORKERS MEETING
7 March 2008
Multinational companies in Social Services - new research of PSIRU
(8 January 2008) A new research document explores the expansion of multinational companies in social services in Europe. They are slowly progressing with several take-overs and also private equity investors being interested. The document also provides the European context for this expansion. The paper was commissioned from PSIRU by EPSU. It is partly available here. The full paper is available for affiliated organisations.
Multinational care company expansion -
Major trends and (...)
Multinational care company expansion -
Major trends and (...)
EPSU CARE SECTOR PROJECT
EPSU CARE SECTOR PROJECT
TIME TO CARE: A BETTER DEAL FOR CARE WORKERS IN EUROPE
REQUEST FOR INPUT
Before the summer break, the HSS Social services working group discussed working conditions and wages of (women) care workers in the EU. Participants at the EPSU social services conference of 10-12 June 2007, in Athens, concluded that there was an urgent need to improve working conditions in the care sector, more specifically wages. It was also noted that wages in the care sector are under (...)
TIME TO CARE: A BETTER DEAL FOR CARE WORKERS IN EUROPE
REQUEST FOR INPUT
Before the summer break, the HSS Social services working group discussed working conditions and wages of (women) care workers in the EU. Participants at the EPSU social services conference of 10-12 June 2007, in Athens, concluded that there was an urgent need to improve working conditions in the care sector, more specifically wages. It was also noted that wages in the care sector are under (...)
3rd EPSU Social Services conference, Athens, 10-12 June 2007
EPSU analysis on European Commission Communication on Implementing the Community Lisbon programme: Social Services of General Interest in the European Union (COM (2006) 177 final)
Adopted by the EPSU Executive Committee on 9 June 2006
Social Services network launched in EPSU with ETUCO assistance
(Budapest 18-20 March) The European Trade Union College (ETUCO) facilitated a seminar for EPSU, which was designed to create a dynamic social services network within EPSU work. The seminar set out to identify the key issues for social workers at national and European level and to identify the next steps to establish a strong European voice in the sector. The participants, from 13 EU member states, examined the changes in the sector since the last social services policy position of EPSU, (...)
Social Services & Social Dialogue in the EU, EPSU/ETUCO course
"Szociális szolgáltatások és társadalmi párbeszéd az Európai Unióban" című tanfolyam, 2005. március 17-20, Budapest, Magyarország
The European Trade Union College and EPSU organised a seminar on Social Services & Social Dialogue in the European Union from 17 to 20 March 2005.
This seminar enabled participants:
To contribute to the development of social dialogue in the Social Services sector as well at EU level as at national level;
To examine and compare national social dialogue systems in the Social Services (...)
The European Trade Union College and EPSU organised a seminar on Social Services & Social Dialogue in the European Union from 17 to 20 March 2005.
This seminar enabled participants:
To contribute to the development of social dialogue in the Social Services sector as well at EU level as at national level;
To examine and compare national social dialogue systems in the Social Services (...)
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