Greece announced that it would take part in a program that aims to tackle illegal immigration by offering jobs to migrants on short-term contracts and providing them with greater financial rewards if they return to their homelands.
Clerks and representatives of NGOs from Prague learn to work with immigrants more efficiently in a special course. The course is held within the project “Be In During Integration,” which is covered from the European Social Fund and the state budget. Some 310,000 foreigners live legally in the Czech Republic, making up 2.5%t of inhabitants.
Flexible working is central to the way McDonald’s Restaurants does business. All hourly-paid employees choose their availability on a weekly basis, there’s a part-time scheme for restaurant managers and office staff can work compressed summer hours to get more from their weekends. Also,
A December Eurobarometer survey shows attitudes towards homosexuality vary widely across EU Member States. An average of 44% of EU citizens believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. Acceptance levels range from 82% in The Netherlands to 12% in Latvia. Marriage – or a similar legal union – is currently possible in the […]
Only 32% of the Maltese believe that people of different ethnic origin enrich the national culture, the lowest percentage among the EU’s member states. According to a Eurobarometer study entitled “Discrimination in the EU”, the majority of citizens in all but four member states said that people of different ethnic origin enrich the national culture.
The European Disability Forum (EDF) celebrates its tenth birthday with an ambitious project: unter the slogan “1Million4Disability – Make disability discrimination history”, the association starts a campaign that aims at the adoption of a EU equality directive. The EDF counted more than 50 million disabled people in the EU and demands the right to equal […]
Gays in Poland revealed a plan to build a monument in the centre of the capital city of Warsaw that will be a permanent reminder of the “Pink Triangle” gays who were killed in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War.
The execution of former Iraqui leader Saddam Hussein has created a unique revenue for mobile phone dealers in Bagdad’s suburb of Sadr-City. The video footage of Saddam’s execution quickly became a money-making bestseller, local media reported. Mobile phone dealers offered the video for downloading, demanding just a few Iraqi denars (around 25 euro cents). Phone […]
International fast food chain McDonalds, being the target of criticism concerning the restaurant’s working conditions for years, has launched a career and lifestyle website for its 67,000 employees in the UK to support their future development.
People in Lithuania complain of long waits for taxis, unrepaired flats and long lines at grocery stores – according to a recent workpermit.com-Report, service industry workers in Lithuania have become a rarity. Facing a low birth rate and a rapidly ageing population, the employee gap in the Lithuanian service sector is growing continuously. In order […]
