This policy memo provides an overview of policies and initiatives in EU member states supporting family-friendly workplaces. EU citizens face significant challenges in balancing their professional and family lives. Family-friendly workplaces allow employees flexibility both in their working hour...
Across Europe, new forms of employment are emerging that differ significantly from traditional employment. Some of these forms of employment transform the relationship between employer and employee while others change work organisation and work patterns. They often involve locations other than t...
The economic crisis has profoundly affected the labour market and private life of men and women. This study examines the interrelation of policies with the ways women and men allocate time to paid work, care and leisure and the gendered outcomes produced in different socio-economic and cultural ...
This thesis considers two critical periods in life that can have long-term effects on health and prosperity. The first paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcome...
Police officers who ensure that people are able to exercise their fundamental rights and freedoms earn the respect and trust of the public. With this in mind, this manual by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) sets out to foster such human rights-based police work by integrati...
2016 was the concluding year of Eurofound’s work programme for 2013–2016 'From crisis to recovery: better informed policies for a fair and competitive Europe'. This work programme was designed to provide evidence to feed into the development of social, employment and work-related policies to aid...