On 15 May 2014 the European Federation of Salaried Doctors (FEMS) are leading the Action Day of European Doctors. Please find the key messages here: English / French / German.

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work launched a pan-European photo competition to promote awareness on occupational safety and health. The Agency’s mission is ”to make Europe’s workplaces safer, healthier and more productive“. The competition challenges everyone to capture their own image of safety and health at work. An international jury welcomes photographic creativity […]

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are the most common work-related health problem in Europe – across the EU, 25% of workers suffer from backache and 23% have muscular pains. European Agency for Safety and Health at Work‘s 2007 pan-European campaign was launched by Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimír Špidla to urge employers, employees and politicians to ‘Lighten the […]

The Commission has today, after extensive consultation across Europe, adopted a proposal to update key aspects of the working time directive. It is a balanced package of inter-related measures which retains the principal objective – health & safety of workers – while responding to the needs of the modern European economy. The individual opt-out from […]

At the first Informal Social Council of the Dutch Presidency, the ministers of Social Affairs and Employment of the 25 member states met on 8-10 July in Maastricht, NL. Chaired by the Dutch minister Aart-Jan De Geus, the ministers agreed that the new European Social Policy Agenda should concentrate on the aims formulated in the […]