Severe labour exploitation is widespread across the European Union. While workplace inspections can help counter this phenomenon, they need to be strengthened to do so effectively. Based on interviews and focus group discussions with almost 240 exploited workers active in diverse economic sectors, this report provides important evidence on how unscrupulous employers manipulate and undermine inspections, and on what can be done to counteract such efforts. ...
We are now looking for a talented, self-starter to lead the organisation’s activities on Transnational Companies (TNCs) and European Works Councils (EWCs).
If you are interested in the position, please apply in English to h.wiedenhofer@effat.org and copy to s.debruycker@effat.org before 7 September 2018.
Please feel free to forward this information to any person who might be interested. ...
In a first round of action in the international campaign, unions in, among other countries, Austria, China/Hong Kong, France, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Samoa, South Africa, Sweden and Thailand organized meetings, demonstrations, educational and other activities in support of the demand for the hotel giant to negotiate a global agreement on concrete measures to protect workers. ...
21 June 2018, McDonald’s was summoned to a hearing of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance (TAXE3) to explain its new tax base for European operations, and the reasons why the company significantly changed its corporate structure, relocating to the U.K. and moving the registered office to Delaware where the public has no access to corporate filings, and this amid an ongoing investigation by the European Commission into allegations of tax dealings with Luxembourg. The answers given by McDonald’s were not satisfactory to MEPs and will be followed up by a written procedure. Read more here –>click<– ...
2,300 children have been torn from their parents and put in cages as part of Trump’s latest sick political game!
After a massive outcry, Trump just said he’d stop separating families. But that does nothing for those already torn apart. These child hostages were rounded up into cages, then locked-in under lights blaring 24 hours a day. ‘Mami!’, ‘Papa!’ they sob, but workers at detention centres can’t even touch them to comfort them! And most don’t have lawyers to get them out. ...
EFFAT-ov Upravni odbor za kakao provodi kampanju za djecu koja rade na farmama za uzgoj kakaa i za njihovo pravo na zaštitu od svih oblika dječjeg rada i rada u opasnim uvjetima, te je proizveo materijale za kampanju koje možete naći ovdje.
Nesretniji obrok – izbjegavanje plaćanja poreza još uvijek je na McDonald’sovom jelovniku ...
On May 1, 2018, McDonald’s workers in London, UK, will hold their second strike. The first ever strike by UK McDonald’s workers was held on September 4, 2017, IUF
International Fast Food Workers’ Day, in support of demands for a minimum hourly rate of £ 10 (USD 13), an end to zero-hour contracts, and union rights and
recognition. The second strike has the same demands. ...
Portugese and Croatian workers in the lowest pay scales have the least purchasing power. This is shown through WageIndicator BARCOM research amongst twelve European countries. The best-off workers with a low wage live in Denmark and Finland. Read more
At its meeting on 13 March 2018, the Trade Union Task Force on Social Tourism, with representatives from ISTO, IUF, ETUC and EFFAT, discussed a range of topics: the “ILO Guidelines on Decent Work and Socially Responsible Tourism”; a possible cooperation on the “Fair Hotels” initiative of IUF and EFFAT; possible joint initiatives in the fields of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and vocational training in social tourism; and potential joint activities in the run up to the 2019 EP elections. ...