“Signing the European Pillar of Social Rights must be the starting gun of a race to implement it,” said Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the […]

The Conference elected the 5th PERC Youth Committee in accordance with the Terms of Reference,  and the voting resulted in the following composition:   President: […]

Lithuania’s government, business representative and trade unions on October 16th signed an agreement, declaring pledges to raise wages, cut taxes on labor and encourage collective […]

PERC Youth Committee is deeply concerned with the situation around the labour rights of young people in Croatia. Employers take advantage of the loopholes in […]

Tomorrow, Thursday 21 September, the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will be provisionally applied: over 90 percent of the deal’s provisions will begin […]

Initiation of strikes is a right of trade unions. It is enough, if  ¼ of trade union’ s members support a strike. After the new […]

In Lithuania workers are represented by trade unions, work councils or trustees. A work council and a trustee mostly have the same rights and obligations. […]

After an adoption of the new Labour Code the current situation in Lithuania is not cheerful. It is true that after the Lithuania’s parliamentary elections […]

European trade unions today resolved to call on the European Commission, national Governments and the European Parliament to adopt a stronger European Pillar of Social […]

Declaration adopted by ETUC Extraordinary Enlarged Steering Committee in Rome on 29-31 May 2017 It is ten years since the financial crisis of 2007-2008. A banking […]