Focus topics:
Labour Market
Safeguarding jobs and reducing unemployment are core responsibilities of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). A precise knowledge and understanding of developments and trends on the labour market and the provision of good services to jobseekers are prerequisites for fulfilling these tasks.
Europe 2020 strategy
With the Europe 2020 strategy, the Heads of State or Government have agreed upon a new EU strategy for sustainable growth and jobs with the aim of ensuring that emerges from the current crisis stronger and positions itself so that it is able to meet the challenges of the next ten years.
Germany to ratify the next ILO Convention
The Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187), part of the global strategy to improve occupational safety and health, will now be ratified by Germany. International labour standards on occupational safety and health have been at the core of the International Labour Organization's agenda since it was founded in 1919.
