Health and Social Services, Water, Social Dialogue

(Press Release - 26 March 2021) The European Parliament voted yesterday late afternoon to support the Stop Cancer at Work campaign’s demands.

Last week EPSU and HOSPEEM sent a letter to Commissioner Schmit about the European Commssion study on the protection of workers from exposure to hazardous medicinal products (HMP), including cytotoxic substances.

On the agenda of the LRG/HSS Social Services Working Group was the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, research into privatization of social services, social dialogue in social services and the workplan of the WG.

EU4Health should focus more on the healthcare profession and use the expertise of social partners in delivering the programme.

(Press release. Embargoed until 23:59 2nd December 2020) The European Commission has called into question Member States’ decisions to increase wages for health care workers.

List of key dates for 2021 for EPSU affiliates in the HSS sector EPSU HSS - Key Dates 2021 Last update: 21 January 2021

On Thursday, 17 September, two speakers representing EPSU participated in a seminar jointly organized by the European cross-sectoral partners ETUC, BusinessEurope, CEEP and SME United.

A decade ago, the European Sectoral Social Partners, EPSU, UNI EUROPA, ETUCE, HOSPEEM, CEMR, EFEE, EuroCommerce, CoESS identified third-party violence and harassment at the workplace as one of the key health and safety challenges to face within the European Economic Area

EPSU, together with the Social Employers, participated in a conference organized to highlight the deficiencies and shortcomings in the support to the social services sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to changing demographics, labour mobility and increasing family diversity, the social services sector is one of the fastest growing economic sectors in Europe.

HOSPEEM and EPSU Third Regional Workshop - capacity building of national social partners in the hospital/health care sector in Croatia, Czechia, Slovakia and Slovenia - POSTPONED - Spring 2021

All across Europe, COVID-19 creates significant challenges for the care sector.

On February 27th, EPSU together with the European Social Employers organized the 2nd technical seminar in the framework of the DialogueS project.

HOSPEEM and EPSU support the capacity building of national social partners in the hospital/health care sector in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain

A major review of hundreds of academic studies reveals that there is no empirical evidence that the private sector is intrinsically more efficient than the public sector