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Stop Cancer at Work Campaign calls on European Commission and European Council to include hazardous drugs and reprotoxins in legislation now

Stop Cancer at Work Campaign calls on European Commission and European Council to include hazardous drugs and reprotoxins in legislation now

(PRESS RELEASE - 29 March 2021) Inclusion of hazardous drugs in EU legislation, supported by the European Parliament, majority of Member States and consensus of stakeholders and responses to independent report published by the European Commission.

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

(Press Release) Yesterday, the European Commission published a new strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change intended to build ‘just resilience’ to the unavoidable effects of climate change.

(Press release - 4 February) Today the WTO TRIPS Council is set to discuss patent protections in place for COVID-19 related vaccines and medical supplies.

(Press Release) Today the European Parliament will hold an important hearing to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on residential institutions.

(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.

Press Release - EPSU welcomes the vote on the Drinking Water Directive recast in the European Parliament today as small step forward to realise the Human Right to Water in the EU.

Press Release - Today the European trade union federations, EPSU and industriAll, and the industry association Eurogas, adopted a common position on the Just Transition in the Green Deal.

On the 11th November, the European Commission published a proposal outlining the first steps towards a European Health Union.

European Union government leaders met to discuss the second wave of the pandemic as it hits people across Europe.

The European Council meets to discuss responses to the second wave of the pandemic Thursday, 29th October.

Press Release ( EN/FR ) - The management of the ORPEA group, Europe’s largest multinational company providing elderly and other forms of care, continues to ignore public health measures put in place by the Fench government to protect citizens’ lives.

Court Case EPSU vs EC on information and consultation rights, Luxembourg, 26 October 2020 - Media Briefing - Embargoed until 23rd October