Don't miss out on this year's collective bargaining conference

EPSU’s annual collective bargaining and social dialogue conference will take place in Brussels on 9 and 10 December. Over 100 participants from 20 countries have already registered. The conference will discuss developments in public sector pay negotiations over the last year along with specific debates on equal pay and the various European Court judgements that threaten to undermine national systems of collective bargaining. The conference has been organised with financial assistance from the European Commission which means that we have a limited number of sponsorships available for

An analysis by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) reveals that workers receiving poverty-level pay are among the 35 million of the poorest Europeans who can’t afford a summer holiday. Overall, 28% of EU citizens can’t afford a one-week holiday away from home – but that rises to 59.5% for people whose income is below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold (60% of the median). The worst situation is in Greece where 88.9% of people living at risk of poverty couldn’t afford a break, followed by Romania (86.8%), Croatia (84.7%), Cyprus (79.2%) and Slovakia (76.1%). The ETUC says that many

A new report by the Resolution Foundation, a research group focusing on low pay issues, reveals how many home care workers are effectively paid less than the minimum wage. The research shows that while formally workers are paid at or above the minimum rate of £6.19 (€7.24), they tend to lose out because their pay is linked to the time of their home visits. They are not paid for their travelling time and the amount of time for each visit is often less than the amount they need to deliver proper care. The Resolution Foundation estimates there could be as many as 220,000 home care workers paid