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TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024
Brussels Belgium
TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024
Local and Regional Government, Staffing levels
Safe and effective staffing levels
Quality public services depend on having safe and effective staffing levels. This is crucial in health and social services but is also important in a range other public services. It is also about ensuring the safety and wellbeing of staff who are otherwise overworked and under pressure to cover for staff shortages. Recruitment and retention and training and continuous professional development are key elements in working to achieve and maintain safe and effective staffing levels.
Date
Jun. 22, 2023
![EPSU Firefighters meeting in Stockholm June 2023](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/article/image/IMG_20230621_FireFighters%20truck%20EPSU%20for%20web%20950px.jpg?itok=SAn52hu4)
Firefighters demand action as heatwaves and droughts threaten to overwhelm Europe’s fire services
In the midst of a heatwave and droughts across Europe, firefighters from fifteen countries representing unions affiliated to the European Public Service Unions (EPSU) came together in Stockholm.
Apr. 27, 2023
![Health care](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/article/image/%C2%A9%20CanStock%20Photo%20VILevi%20950px%20web_5.jpg?itok=LYDIEhU0)
Will EU’s new fiscal rules hinder urgent action on staffing crises?
Public service federation EPSU is concerned that the proposed reform of the European Union’s fiscal rules, published yesterday, might undermine national action to address the widespread staffing shortages across a broad range of public services in Europe – in health and social care, the justice system, childcare, tax administrations, utilities and more.