PURPOSE: to
present the final accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of
Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2007.
CONTENT: this
document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the
Foundation’s budget for 2007. It indicates that the Foundation’s final budget
amounted to EUR 20.2 million in 2007 (compared with EUR 19.8 million in
2006).
With regard to
staff, the Foundation - with headquarters in Dublin (Ireland) - has 94 posts
available of which 84 are occupied, and 13 other members of staff (Seconded
National Experts, employment agency staff and Contract Agents), which is
equivalent to a total staff of 97 undertaking operating activities,
administrative tasks and mixed duties.
In 2007, the
work undertaken by the Foundation included:
Monitoring
and surveys:
- The European
Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO), the European Working Conditions
Observatory (EWCO) and the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM);
- 4th European
Working Conditions Survey: secondary analysis (themes of gender and
working conditions, ageing workforce, work organisation, working time
and work intensity, etc.);
- European
survey on working time and work-life balance: five reports published in
2007.
Employment
and restructuring:
- Undeclared
work;
- European
Restructuring Monitor case studies;
- Stakeholder
enquiry service.
Work–life
balance and working conditions:
- Attractive
workplace for all;
- Flexibility
and security over the life course;
- Changes in
the job structure.
Industrial
relations and partnership:
- Codes of
conduct and framework agreements;
- Capacity
building for sectoral and local level; social dialogue in the EU 10;
- Working time
and industrial relations.
Social
cohesion and quality of life:
- Role of
local authorities in the integration of migrants;
- Developments
in childcare services in disadvantaged areas;
- Promoting
quality of life in rural Europe.
Communication
and sharing ideas and experience:
- 376
publications, 1.57 million users sessions (average of 4 303/day);
- 37 press
activities, 45 press releases, up 28% on 2006;
- 1 126
article cuttings with advertising value equivalent (AVE) of EUR 2.1
million, reaching ca 58 765 000 people, up 80% from 2006;
- Promotion
campaign ‘Fourth Working Conditions Survey: what workers say’, ‘Quality
of Life in Turkey’;
- Roadshows in
five countries;
- Company
Network Seminars on Diversity in Europe and Environmental Changes;
- Foundation
Seminar Series ‘Youth and Work’;
- National
Outreach Centres covering 10 Members States;
- 16
exhibitions;
- 58 visits to
the Foundation, including the Finnish President.
The Foundation’s full 2007 accounts may
be found at the following address: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/about/publicaccess/categories/finance/2008.htm