The European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) completed its third year of operation in 1999. It is now a well-established resource, providing accurate and up-to-date information and analysis on developments in industrial relations to its target audience of practitioners and policy-makers...

The European Community's Fifth Environmental Action Programme defines sustainable development as 'continued economic and social development without detriment to the environment and the natural resources, on the quality of which continued human activity and further development depend'. Throughout...

Over a five-year period the Foundation's EPOC research project charted developments in the changing world of work, most significantly in the area of work organisation. The focus of the investigation was to show the extent of direct employee participation and to illustrate the role played by such...

The aim of the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) is to provide accurate and up-to-date information and analysis on developments in industrial relations. With the introduction of the euro single currency at the beginning of 1999, the Foundation is more than ever convinced that this...

Substantial progress has been made in the last 15 years in the areas of European economic, social and monetary integration, aided by social dialogue on employment and industrial relations at the international level. To be truly effective, the social dialogue has to be underpinned by an awareness...

This background paper has been drafted in response to a request in June 2008 from the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) for a summary of Eurofound research and data on the incidence of workplace violence in the education sector in the EU. Eurofound has a track record of...