The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules the establishment of an occupational pension scheme in the UK, branded NEST, in the UK to ensure that all employees…
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Any reform of labour law should seek to protect workers in “non-standard” employment, such as part-time or temporary work, and make it easier to move between various types of work…
The European Commission has issued on Thursday a new request to Italy to comply with a 2008 European Court of Justice ruling that different pensionable ages for male and female…
Euro-MPs want to promote female entrepreneurship and are proposing new rules to bridge the gender gap for self-employed workers and their partners and to ensure everyone has social protection.MEPs want…
On 1 May 2010, new regulations on social security coordination in the European Union enter into force. The aim is to make life easier for Europeans on the move.The new…
By Leo GasteenThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that European Union law, more particularly the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age as given expression by Directive 2000/78,…
By Leo Gasteen The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that a court of a Member State in which a child resides cannot provisionally grant custody of the child to…
The ruling, made by the Court in Luxembourg on 29 October, says thatthe protection must be afforded where the only remedy available under national legislation to a worker dismissed during…
This is a very interesting publication on gender statistics. It describes the situations of women and men at different stages of their lives. It begins by covering children, their education…
In a pan-European qualitative study covering 29 European countries, children of 9-10 and 12-14 years old were interviewed about their use of online technologies, such as the Internet and mobile…
