EU: the European Commission publishes a report on the implementation of the European agreement on harassment and violence at work

On 21 September, the European Commission published a study it had commissioned on the implementation of the autonomous framework agreement signed by the European social partners (the ETUC representing the unions, BUSINESSEUROPE, UEAPME, and the CEEP representing the employers) on harassment and violence at work that was signed back in 2007 and sent to the national social partners for deployment.
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Final report on the agreement’s implementation. The 2007 agreement (c.f. article No. 070377) brought several innovative elements. It was a ‘voluntary’ agreement, or in other words not strictly binding and not universally applicable (it wasn’t taken up in a Directive) and so therefore its implementation was left up to the national social partners instead of the legislators. Nonetheless, by adopting the text, albeit non-binding the European Commission cannot as a result start any legislative init

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