The reduction of working time has played a major role in lessening the impact of lowered production output on employment levels, and this project aims to investigate short-time working and temporary layoff schemes which have been used as a means of avoiding redundancies by many Member States...

The reduction of working time has played a major role in lessening the impact of lowered production output on employment levels, and this project aims to investigate short-time working and temporary layoff schemes which have been used as a means of avoiding redundancies by many Member States...

Understanding how working time is organised and how this is impacting on balance of work versus private life is of fundamental importance. This general statement is very much in accordance with the main objective of the Europe 2020 employment strategy, stating that at least 75% of the population...

Developments in Working Life in Europe 2014 is part of a series of annual reviews published by Eurofound and provides an overview of the latest developments in industrial relations and working conditions across the European Union and Norway. The Annual Review collates information based on...

Working time policies, although designed within the national and sectoral framework and the boundaries of institutional regulations, are fine-tuned and implemented at the level of each company, taking account of the environment in which the company operates and the workforce it is employing....

Changes to traditional gender roles and the labour market are forcing a rethink of conventional work-life patterns. Individuals are calling for a better quality of life, while employers require greater flexibility in the workplace. The idea of reorganising time over the whole course of working...

Neuere Untersuchungen haben ergeben, dass sich die Arbeitsbedingungen der Arbeitnehmer in der Europäischen Union im Laufe der letzten Jahre im Allgemeinen nicht verbessert haben. Die Anzahl befristeter Arbeitsverträge hat jedoch nicht dramatisch zugenommen. In der EU zeigt sich im Hinblick auf...

Im Jahr 1998 hat die Europäische Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen eine umfassende Studie zu den Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten der Zukunft in sämtlichen 15 EU-Mitgliedstaaten und Norwegen durchgeführt. Wer will arbeiten? Wann? Und warum? In der Studie wurde zu...