General secretaries from the ETUC on the union side and from BusinessEurope, the UEAPME and the CEEP on the managerial side signed, today April 26, 2007, the framework agreement on harassment and violence at work (see our story n°070288). For this agreement, which has to be set up by national employers and union organizations in the three coming years, the question of violence and harassment has to be settled on the workplace, by way of a procedure of which the development, the management and the revision has to imply workers or their representatives. (Ref. 070377)
For Philippe de Buck, secretary general of the managerial confederation BusinessEurope, “the text brings solutions to a complicated theme and offers a true added value”. For the European commissioner in charge of social affairs, Vladimir Spidla, this added value is obvious: on the one hand, “three years after the framework agreement on stress at work was concluded, this text complements social partners’ actions to face new risks called psychosocial in the working sphere” and, on the other hand,
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