IWS Documented News WEEKLY BULLETIN

From the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

Annual review of working conditions in the EU: 2003-2004 [1 July 2004]
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01.pdf
[full-text, 38 pages]

This review examines four key dimensions in working conditions and quality
of work and employment: career and employment, health and well-being,
skills development and work-life balance. The report first outlines
relevant legislative and policy developments, before examining trends in
the workplace. In terms of career and employment, employment rates are
consistently rising for women and older workers, at least in the EU15, but
progress is currently too slow to achieve the Lisbon targets. In the area
of health and well-being, improvements regarding safety at work are
reflected in the significant decline of serious and fatal accidents at
work. Looking at skills development, participation rates in lifelong
learning have increased, particularly for women. There was a drop in
IT-related training. Under work-life balance, progress has been slow, due
to a complexity of factors involved in improving reconciliation of working
and non-working life, such as work organisation, working time arrangements,
or provision of care facilities.

Introduction
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01_1.htm

Legislative developments
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01_2.htm

Policy developments
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01_3.htm

Official statistics
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01_4.htm

Workplace trends
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01_5.htm

Quality of work and employment and the social partners
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01_6.htm

Commentary
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01_7.htm

References
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/EU0406AR01/EU0406AR01_8.htm