The pronunciation comes from the Court of Justice of the European Union and relates to a lawsuit filed by two Danish workers, suffering from a chronic disease, fired for too many days of absence from their respective companies. For the European judges a disease, if it involves physical limitations, mental or psychological impairments that prevent the full participation and regular professional activity, is considered a form of disability.
The International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics has published an abstract on the work that has been done in Italy to improve the safety of birth centers, edited by "Italian Working Group for safety at Birth", which is part of the Court for the rights of ill-Cittadinanzattiva, along with doctors and professionals.
It is a problem that you do not talk much, but in Europe will soon be regulated by a Directive (2010/32/EU a), written two years ago and that must be implemented by each member state by May 11, 2013: it is the prevention and elimination of the risk of infection for health care workers, and the aim is the highest possible level of safety of the work environment, avoiding any possible health workers exposure to biohazardous.
The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) invites patient advocates to apply for the organization’s Advocacy Travel Awards. The IASLC will offer travel awards to a limited number of patient advocates to participate in the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) Oct. 27-30, 2013 in Sydney, Australia.
Smartphones and tablets store a large amount of personal information such as pictures, videos, messages, traffic data, etc. To make Italian users better aware of how important it is to protect this information, the Italian Data Protection Authority created a tutorial video providing simple, useful tips to protect one's privacy when using tablets or smartphones.
The objective of this green paper is to consult stakeholders on possible responses to the public policy challenges posed by plastic waste which are at present not specifically addressed in the EU Waste legislation.
A scholarship programme for professionals active in Citizenship Education from Central and Southeastern Europe. The German Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Robert Bosch Stiftung are awarding 16 scholarships to active professionals from Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. They are looking for people at the beginning of their professional careers who wish to be active internationally, and applicants to already be actively promoting democracy and social responsibility in their own countries and to be engaged in civic education. Closing date for applications: June 16th 2013.
At the start the second edition of the generations @ school 2013, on the occasion of the European Year of Citizens, invites teachers, students and people of older age to organize debates on Europe, on its past but also about what adults and children can do together to build the Europe of the future. The deadline for application is June 30.
In the framework of the European Alliance for the "European Year of Citizens 2013", key organizations and civil society groups in Italy have created their own national network in order to share best practices, coordinate activities that will be held during the year , facilitate dialogue between citizens and institutions, prepare proposals to be submitted to the European Commission, the European Parliament and to the Italian government in view of the EU's rotating six-month presidency (second half 2014). Among those who have joined, even Cittadinanzattiva.
The European Commission launched at the end of March a scoreboard to compare the justice systems of member states in a bid to assess how courts can affect economic growth. The justice scoreboard will focus on the business and investment climate, such as the efficiency of EU courts to resolve civil and commercial disputes.