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Health and safety in the workplace of the future
The note identifies future risks to the physical and mental health and safety of workers that are attributable to technology-driven changes in the workplace and looks at possible legislative responses and further action.
This STOA study investigates the potential employment effects of new information and communication technologies, by examining the relationship between innovation, new technologies, employment and inequality. It reviews the existing literature and experiences of previous technological revolutions, and argues that the race between job creation through new products, and job destruction from process innovation, has been won in the past by the job-creating effects of innovation. It concludes that there ...
La sclérose en plaques et l'emploi
La sclérose en plaques est une maladie neurodégénérative. Elle touche plus de 600 000 personnes en Europe, mais les traitements et l'aide dont elles bénéficient varient sensiblement selon l'endroit où elles vivent. La sclérose en plaques est généralement diagnostiquée entre 20 et 30 ans, souvent au début de la carrière professionnelle. Les personnes qui en souffrent peuvent avoir besoin de souplesse ainsi que de dispositions particulières sur le plan professionnel compte tenu de la nature imprévisible ...
Neurodegenerative diseases in the workplace
Hundreds of thousands of working-age Europeans suffer from neurodegenerative diseases (NDD) such as Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. With an increase in retirement age and in life expectancy, the number of both NDD patients and carers of working age is expected to increase in the coming decades.