{"id":22922,"date":"2014-06-10T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/europeans-working-conditions-have-deteriorated-in-the-past-five-years\/"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:30:16","slug":"europeans-working-conditions-have-deteriorated-in-the-past-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/en\/europeans-working-conditions-have-deteriorated-in-the-past-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Europeans’ working conditions have deteriorated in the past five years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"paysThe European Commission<\/a> has published the results of a survey of Europeans’ working conditions and the impact that the economic crisis may have had on them. The survey was carried out on a representative sample of 26,500 working persons in Europe. It shows a general deterioration in working conditions and major disparities with regard to workers’ satisfaction depending on the country.<\/p>\n

Most workers say they are satisfied with their working conditions (on average 77% in the EU) and with health and safety in the workplace (85%). More than 80% of those surveyed in Luxembourg, Finland and the Netherlands consider that their working conditions are good. Then come Austria, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Estonia.<\/p>\n

But although Europeans as a whole say they are satisfied, most of them (57%) deplore a general deterioration in their working conditions over the past five years. The deterioration especially concerns France (62%), Cyprus and Hungary (75%), Portugal (78%), Slovenia (84%), Italy (85%), Spain (86%) and Greece (88%). <\/p>\n

According to the European Commission, the results of the survey show that improvements must be made in the following areas:<\/p>\n