The actual weekly working hours of EU full-time and part-time workers aged 20-64 in their main job averaged 35.9 hours in 2025, down from 36.9 hours in 2015.
The EU Council and Parliament have provisionally agreed a regulation to extend support from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers to workers facing imminent unemployment.
The European Union (EU) has long recognised the critical role startups and scaleup businesses play in driving economic growth, creating jobs, and fostering innovation across its member states.
The Association of Large French Companies, AFEP, is looking to recruit an EU Affairs Policy Advisor. L’Afep is the Association of large French companies with global reach. Founded in 1982…
The European Commission has issued new guidelines to better protect workers from the dangerous cancer-causing substance asbestos, as well as an updated list of occupational diseases.
EuroCommerce acknowledges the European Commission’s Quality Jobs Roadmap, but urges caution. With competitiveness a top priority, the retail and wholesale sector calls for balance, not more complexity. EuroCommerce says the focus should remain on better enforcement, dialogue and capacity building.
Europe’s social model is one of our greatest strengths, but to secure quality jobs we must reinforce the competitiveness and productivity of the SMEs that support it.
