Joint Statements Social Dialogue in the Utilities - Electricity

Joint letter on multisectoral agreement on violence at work to Commission

Joint letter EPSU / EURELECTRIC / EMCEF to European Commission Head of Unit DG Employment, Mr Jackie Morin, sent on 19 June 2008

Employers and unions ask for critical assessment of different options on unbundling

Joint letter EPSU/EURELECTRIC/EMCEF to European Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, sent on 20 June 2008

ETUC guide on the implementation of the Violence at Work Agreement

To assist trade unions with the implementation of the agreement on violence at work, the ETUC has produced a practical guide on the implementation of the agreement.
Read also the EURELECTRIC / EPSU / EMCEF Joint Declaration on Harassment and Violence at Work

The Social Aspects of the European Energy Community (South East Europe) and the Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding

EURELECTRIC / EPSU / EMCEF JOINT STATEMENT
(December 2007) The European social partners for the electricity industry (Eurelectric for the employers and EPSU/EMCEF for the trade unions) welcome the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Social Aspects of the European Energy Community by the European Commission and the governments concerned 18 October 2007, Vienna. This is a positive step in ensuring that the implementation of the energy acquis and especially the internal market (...)

Joint Declaration on Stress

EURELECTRIC / EPSU/ EMCEF Joint Declaration on Stress
(November 2007) The European inter-professional social partners BUSINESSEUROPE-UEAPME, CEEP and ETUC signed a Framework Agreement on work-related stress on 8 October 2004. The agreement aims at increasing awareness and recognition by employers, workers and their representatives of work-related stress. The objective is to provide employers and workers with a framework to identify and prevent or manage problems of work-related stress. (...)

Joint Declaration on Harassment and Violence at Work

EURELECTRIC / EPSU / EMCEF Joint Declaration
(November 2007) The European inter-professional social partners BUSINESSEUROPE-UEAPME, CEEP and ETUC signed a Framework Agreement on harassment and violence at work on 26 April 2007. The agreement aims at increasing the awareness and attentiveness of employers, workers and their representatives to workplace harassment and violence. It also aims to provide employers, workers and their representatives at all levels with an action-oriented (...)

Joint declaration on study on employment effects of the opening of the electricity and gas markets

(December 2007) Eurelectric and the trade unions adopted a joint declaration on the study of the European Commission (and executed by EcoTec) on the employment effects of market opening. The joint statement notes the significant change that liberalisation has brought and including employment loss. It hight lights a number of challenges including making the sector attractive to young workers and the issues posed by outsourcing amongst others. The social partners argue to continue to collect (...)

Work Programme Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee Electricity 2006-2007

A European First - Social partners publish equality & diversity toolkit

The trade unions and Eurelectric for the employers published a toolkit on equality and diversity during a seminar 14 December 2006, Brussels. The toolkit is based on extensive research and interviews with management and trade un ion representatives of a large number of companies. It offers concrete and practical examples for managers and trade unions how equality and diversity can be addressed in Europe’ s electric utilities.
The EPSU Deputy General Secretary welcomed the toolkit. (...)

HEALTH & SAFETY AND TRAINING - Policy statement EURELECTRIC - EPSU - EMCEF

December 2006

Corporate Social Responsibility and the European Electricity Sector

Joint Statement EMCEF/EURELECTRIC/EPSU, December 2004

Joint Declaration on Work-Related Stress

Joint declaration EURELECTRIC / EPSU/ EMCEF, December 2004

South East European Energy Community: the European Electricity Sector needs an extended Social Dialogue

Joint Statement EURELECTRIC/ EMCEF / EPSU, December 2004

Electricity social dialogue agrees statement on skill needs, 22 June 2004

The employers (Eurelectric) and the trade unions agreed a joint statement on skill needs in the European electricity sector at the plenary meeting. Both sides draw attention to the emerging skill gaps, and the need for the social partners and other authorities to address this. An important way to do so is through increasing the number of younger workers in the industry (apprenticeships and other training possibilities). Policies will be evaluated in three years (statement is attached). (...)

Joint Statement on the Conference on Social Implications of the Electricity Sector Restructuring in the Candidate Countries

19-20 September 2002