(Brussels. 5 March 2010) Underlying the themes discussed in the electricity social dialogue working group are the impact of new technologies and innovation and how to deal with change in a forward looking approach. Smart meters and their impact on employment as well as smart grids and their effects were considered. The social partners agreed to obtain a better insight in their consequences. Positive and negative effects for employment, implications for skills and qualifications and the (...)

(15 December 2009) While battles are raging over the text of the next international agreement to bring down green house gas emissions during the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, the European electricity social partners discussed the implications of transition for the workers in the electricity sector. Presentations were made of several recent studies that map the implications of climate change on employment in the electricity sector. Representatives of the European Commission (Andrea (...)

10 December 2009, Budapest

(8 October 2009) The social dialogue committee agreed to seek involvement in the work being done by the European Commission on the development of the energy road maps 2050. The energy road maps consider the long-term future of Europe’s energy system. The importance of considering the longer term strategy was already raised in the EPSU Contribution to the Commission’s Green Paper. The social dimension is to be an important aspect of this project.
The committee further discussed the project on (...)

(23 June 2009) The electricity social partners agreed a joint position on Corporate Social Responsibility 22 June 2009.
The position refers to the joint study Describing Developments in the European electricity industry – drivers for change 2007 and draws joint conclusions.
CSR is about commitments which go beyond respecting the law and recognized international standards. The Statement is the first continental and sectoral wide position that endorses the Global Reporting Initiative (...)

22 June 2009
Crowne Plaza Hote, rue Gineste 3, 1000 Brussels
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(15 June 2009) The Norwegian government published the English version of its CSR report. The report pushes for more companies to enter into global framework agreements with the trade union movement. - The Government asks that Norwegian companies actively work in favour of global framework agreements, based on the ILO core conventions and contributes to strengthening workers’ rights, it says in the paper. It also states that companies should considering ways of establishing some sort of (...)

(11 March 2009) The European Commission presented the agreement on the Emission Trading Scheme as reached between the Council and the European Parliament December 2008. It has become a complex piece of legislation with several different time frames, derogations, unfinished business and as it links with the proposals to share the burden of the efforts to reduce emissions. The European Commission will have to develop separate policies for example on the rules for the auctioning of emissions (...)

(11 December 2008) Following the Conference on Demographic Change (14 November 2008) organised jointly by the trade unions and Eurelectric, the Conference presentations are now available on the public website of Eurelectric within the Events / Past EURELECTRIC Events folder (Login: change; Password: electricity).
The Toolkit / Best Practices Guide will shortly be available as a web based format in English, French, Czech and German at http://www.eurelectric.org/Demographic/w2wfrm.htm
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