Committee Reports::Report No. 01 - Social Dimension of the Internal Market::04 April, 1990::Appendix

ANNEX IV

SOCIAL DIMENSION

“Commission action programme to implement the Social Charter with regard to job transparency and job-creation, health protection and safety at the workplace, equal treatment, improvement of living and working conditions, and in particular:


-Atypical forms of employment: proposal for a Directive on contracts of employment relationships other than full-time open-ended contracts.


-Improvement of living and working conditions: proposal for a Directive on the reorganisation of working time.


-Information, consultation and participation of workers: Community instrument on the procedures for the information, consultation and participation of workers of European-scale undertakings or groups of undertakings.


-Proposal for a Directive on the introduction of a form to serve as proof of an employment contract or employment relationships other than full-time open-ended contracts.


-Frontier workers: communication on the living and working conditions of Community citizens in frontier regions, in particular frontier workers.


-Sub-contracting: proposal for a Community instrument on conditions of employment applicable to workers from another Member State working in the host country in the context of the provision of services.


Vocational Training

-Rationalisation and co-ordination of programmes on vocational training (exchanges for young workers, initial training, Petra).


Safety, Hygiene and Health Agency

-Proposal for a Directive on the protection of pregnant women at work.


Health and Safety at the Workplace

-Proposal for Directives on:


medical assistance on board ships


temporary and mobile construction sites


exploration and exploratory drilling industry


specific information system for persons exposed to certain dangerous industrial substances


safety signs at the workplace.


Freedom of movement for workers and freedom to provide services

-Adjustment of social security arrangements in the case of workers moving within the Community.


-Preparatory work on the transferability of additional pension schemes.


Equal treatment: proposal for a Decision on a third Community programme (1991-95).


Second report on employment in Europe”.