Fostering Mutual Respect in the Workplace: Everyone's a Winner

Directive on Respect and Harassment Prevention in the Workplace [ Guideline on Dispute Resolution of Harassment in the Workplace ]

working environment [ occupational environment ]

harassment at work [ abuse in the workplace | bullying at work | violence in workplace | workplace abuse | workplace harassment | work-related abuse ]

labour environment | work atmosphere | work environment | working environment

comply with environmentally-sustainable work practices | follow environmentally-sustainable practices at work | follow environmentally-sustainable work practice | follow environmentally-sustainable work practices

Convention concerning the Protection of Workers against Occupational Hazards in the Working Environment Due to Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration

The protection of workers’ health and safety must continue to be seen as the primary goal of any working time regulation, since the legal basis for the Directive is Article 153(1a) ‘improvement of the working environment to protect workers’ health and safety’.

Article 137 TEC mentions the activities at national level which should be supported by the European Community, such as improvement of the working environment to protect workers' health and safety, working conditions, the information and consultation of workers, the integration of persons excluded from the labour market, etc.

to ensure that nothing will prevent the EU and its Member States from maintaining, improving and applying labour and social regulations, collective agreements and legislation on the entry of natural persons into, or temporary stay in, the EU’s or a Member State’s territory, including those measures necessary to ensure the orderly movements of natural persons across its borders such as, inter alia, admission or conditions for admission for entry; to guarantee, in line with Directive 96/71/EC on the posting of workers, that the minimum terms and conditions of employment of the host country are applicable to any service suppliers accessing ...[+++] the EU, today and in the future; to ensure that all workers coming into Europe, irrespective of their home country, enjoy the same labour rights as nationals in their host country and that the principle of equal pay for equal work is respected; to ensure that the eight fundamental International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions are ratified and effectively implemented by TiSA parties; to call on all parties to ratify and implement the principal ILO standards and to promote other relevant ILO Conventions and UN resolutions; to ensure that the EU’s and Member States’ labour laws and collective agreements are respected within the EU’s territory; to strengthen the EU monitoring and enforcement mechanism in order to deter infringements; to urge Member States to increase the resources available to labour inspectorates; to urgently collate and present detailed information on the number and type of service providers currently operating in the EU under Mode 4, including the duration of their stay; to ensure much more efficient cross-border access to data within the EU in the future; to include a safety clause preventing companies from circumventing or undermining the right to take industrial action through the use of workers from third countries during negotiations on collective agreements and labour disputes, and to allow TiSA ...

12. Is concerned about women being disadvantaged in the labour market, which leads to them accumulating fewer individual rights to pensions and other social welfare payments, especially in systems where entitlement is based predominantly on an individual's record of employment contributions or earnings; for this reason, calls upon the Member States to take effective action designed to enforce the rules on welfare and employment and to make jobs which respect the rights of employees available in the various activity sectors, thereby e ...[+++]nsuring that workers (in particular women) earn decent wages and are entitled to health and safety at work, to social protection and to trade-union freedom, as a contribution to eliminating discrimination between men and women at work;