The Working Time Directive (WTD), Directive 2003/88/EC aims at providing minimum standards common to all Member States for protecting workers from health and safety risks associated with excessive or inappropriate working hours, and with inadequate time for rest and recovery from work. The last...

The main challenges identified by the CSR focus primarily on higher employability of the workforce and, particularly, of older workers (active ageing) and women. In terms of social inclusion, challenges have been identified to further support the non-active working population and for people at...

- The main challenges facing Malta, with regard to its ability to foster a high employment economy that delivers economic, social and territorial cohesion, are generally in line with those faced at European level. These challenges range from demographic and employment challenges, to low success...

The main challenges identified by the CSRs of 2013 and 2014 focus on unemployment, with particular attention paid to youth unemployment, which highlights the limited scope of active labour market policies and the need to improve the quality of vocational education. Considering the high working...

In Austria, four operational programmes are established under the ESIF: 1 ERDF programme, 1 EAFRD programme, 1 EMFF programme and 1 ESF programme. In total 4,922,866,429 Euros are allocated to ESIF, of which 442,087,353 Euros (including TA) are allocated to ESF1. The ESF contributions amount to...

- Romania faces challenges to reaching its EU2020 headline targets. Considerable progress is required towards these targets in the field of employment, ESL and share of tertiary education. - The Partnership Agreement for Romania presents an overall macroeconomic situation of Romania at the...

Italy's progress towards Europe 2020 targets is still critical and is characterised by significant underachievement with respect to the target rate of tertiary education among 30-34 year-olds. Furthermore, the employment rate remains low and a high number of people still live in or at risk of...

- The main challenges in Ireland concern tackling unemployment and reducing poverty. In both of these areas Ireland faces difficult challenges compared to the Europe 2020 headline targets. The Partnership Agreement seeks to address these challenges through focusing on promoting sustainable and...

ESF programming in Slovenia is integrated into one multi-fund Operational Programme that covers all ESF-related Thematic Objectives: TO8 (IP 8i, 8ii, 8vi), TO9 (IP 9i, 9iv, 9v), TO10 (10iii and 10iv), and TO11 (11i, 11ii). All relevant CSR are addressed in by the Operational Programme. The ESF...