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2018-06-21 12:00

On February 21 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a significant verdict in favour of all workers of the European Union who are requested to provide “on-call” services from home. In a guest commentary for CESI, Pierre Joassart, lawyer at Deckers & Joassart who successfully steered the case through the Court of Justice, explains the background and consequences of the judgment.

2018-06-19 12:00

At its meeting on June 15, the Board of CESI unanimously elected Roberto di Maulo as a Vice-President of CESI. As a representative of the Italian Workers’ Autonomous Trade Unions Confederation (Confsal), a founding member organsation of CESI, this completes the Presidium of CESI after Marco Paolo Nigi, also from Confsal, had retired as Vice-President of CESI at the end of last year. In his application speech, Roberto Di Maulo stressed the role of Confsal and CESI with its member organisations as a strong bond for improved worker rights and employment conditions in Europe.

2018-06-19 12:00

Today CESI’s Trade Council ‘Central Administration and Finances’ (ACF) met in Brussels. Chaired by Wilhelm Gloss, topics on the agenda included minimum wage levels in Europe and the rise in violence against employees of central administrations by third parties.

2018-06-16 12:00

On June 13 the members of the new CESI Youth Board met for the first time in Brussels. The meeting was fruitful as the work programme for the two years to come was discussed and the topics the CESI Youth will focus on were decided.

2018-06-15 12:00

CSIF, the most representative union in the public administration sector in Spain and the main trade union of local police officers at national level, organised a successful demonstration in Madrid in which tens of thousands of local police officers from all over Spain demanded the lowering of their retirement age to 59 years without being penalised in their future pension – a step which would set them on equal footing with the National Police, the Guardia Civil and the Spanish firefighters.

2018-06-14 12:00

In a long-expected landmark ruling on June 12, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) declared the existing general ban on strikes for German civil servants as not being in violation of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz).

2018-06-07 12:00

Last week, CESI Youth has participated to the European Youth Event 2018 held in Strasbourg. During those 2 days, we have organised discussion and debates around two major topics, Apprenticeships in the EU and on our generation’s fears for their future.

2018-06-06 12:00

On 24 and 25 May, the European Movement International (EMI) celebrated its 70th anniversary in The Hague with the two-day event ‘Sharing Europe’. Citizens, policy-makers, trade unions, civil society and business came together to discuss the main issues facing Europe today, including: sustainability, migration, security, labour rights, new economic models and democracy over two days of panel debates and agora sessions.

2018-06-06 12:00

On June 5th, the yearly meeting of CESI´s Trade Council Defence took place, uniting those trade unions from CESI which represent military and civilian staff within the armed forces.

2018-05-29 12:00

After two years of hard and sometimes even frustrating negotiations the European Parliament has today backed the very positive outcome of ‘trilogue’ negotiations on the revision of the Posting of Workers Directive. Who would have thought that? If you had asked me two years ago, I would never have believed in such a success.

2018-05-25 12:00

After its ambitious November 2017 Communication on ‘Strengthening European identity through education and culture’, the European Commission released a so-called ‘Education Package’, of which a first part was published in early 2018 and a second set of initiatives was presented earlier this week on 22 May.
In the framework of the European Commission’s vision to create a European Education Area by 2025, first set out in the November 2017 Communication, CESI conducted an interview on this topic with two young teachers, representing two of its member organisations active in the education sector, namely Grégory Corps from France and Katarzyna Pawlaczyk from Poland. Grégory and Katarzyna are both teachers and both members, since November 30 2017, of the Board of the CESI Youth.

2018-05-25 12:00

On 23rd of April 2018, the Commission presented a proposal for a directive on whistle-blower protection followed by a public consultation. CESI´s main positions are to be found here.

2018-05-23 12:00

At CESI’s last Health Services Trade Council meeting on May 17 in Podgorica, Montenegro, hosted by the Montenegrin Trade Union of Physicians (SDMCG), CESI’s affiliates representing workers in the healthcare services discussed current challenges in employment which the personnel in the sector is facing across European countries.

2018-05-16 12:00

Yesterday, the European Parliament’s Security and Defence Committee held a public hearing on improved worker rights of soldiers in Europe. The hearing came at a timely moment, with the implementation of the European Defence Union advancing swiftly but common rights for soldiers in EU joint military operations still missing.

2018-05-15 12:00

In March, the European Commission stated its refusal to bring an agreement of the European sectoral social dialogue committee ‘Central Government Administration’ on information and consultation rights for central government administration employees to the Council for an implementation as a binding EU directive. Today, as EPSU, the European Public Service Union, announces legal action against the European Commission’s decision at the European Court of Justice, CESI states its support for this move.