Conference debates quality employment

(October 2017) EPSU is organising a collective bargaining and social dialogue conference in January 2017 with the theme of quality employment and quality public services. Several speakers have already been confirmed and more will follow over the coming days. Sessions will cover how to define quality employment, trends in public services, working time and work organisation, trends in labour code reform in Eastern Europe and job security and precarious work.

Unions organising childcare workers met in Brussels to exchange information on some of the main challenges they face to improve the quality of employment in the sector. Low pay, undervaluing of childcare work, precarious employment, work intensification, health and safety, staff shortages and inadequate career development were among the issues facing many unions in the sector.