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Labour mobility within the EU should be made easier for workers as well as for employers, with clearer rules to ensure fair, equality-based working conditions. This is the aim of a report drafted by European People's Party MEP Radan Kanev and his team before the start of the corona-crisis, a report that has acquired particular importance in light of the restrictions connected with the pandemic.

Internet giants Google and Facebook have announced that they will require all their employees who work in their offices to be vaccinated, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.

Large food retail networks are struggling again with a staff shortage they had already been experiencing before the pandemic, and the phenomenon is particularly visible for personnel categories like commercial workers, cashiers, pickers or multipurpose workers, Essa Group said in a statement today.

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President of the Competition Council Bogdan Chiritoiu considers that the Romanian economy has performed surprisingly well in the pandemic and there has been an excellent ability to adapt on the part of the private sector. "2020 was clearly a different year. It is remarkable that sectors of the private economy have adapted very well.

According to a YouGov survey among remote workers in the United States, the lack of a commute is the most obvious benefit of working from home

Bulgaria had the lowest percentage in the European Union of people working from home in 2020, at 1.2 per cent compared with an EU average of 12.3 per cent in the 15-64 age group, the bloc's statistics agency Eurostat said on May 17.

The social distancing measures that were introduced as a response to the Covd-19 pandemic forced many people to work from home, Eurostat said.

Tapping away at the computer keyboard, and sitting for hours in the office chair, it's an image familiar to many, but the norm of working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year.

That's according to the World Health Organization, which warned Monday, that longer working hours is a worsening trend that may have intensified during the pandemic.

Over 65% of people who currently work remotely want to continue working from home. A total of 58% said they would look for a new job if they had to return to the office, shows the survey by a job search quoted cited by Monitor daily.

Ljubljana – The jobless total increased by 12% in 2020 compared to 2019 as the Covid-19 epidemic affected the labour market. However, the employment expectations indicator is rising and nearing the level recorded at the start of 2020, the Statistics Office said ahead of Labour Day.