Reorganized all its resources to resolving emerging issues and providing assistance to members Violeta JELIĆ Croatia Set up a COVID-19 info point and launched a hardship fund for self-employed people and sole traders Christa SCHWENG Austria Assured financial support for employers and workers in Bulgaria Ivan KOKALOV Bulgaria Action taken in response to the pandemic crisis by the GGCL Ioannis PANAGOPOULOS Greece Guaranteed health and employment for workers Juan MENDOZA CASTRO Spain Dialogue with Government and regular surveys on the effects of the Corona pandemic on skilled trades enterprises Holger SCHWANNECKE Germany Concluded tripartite agreements on temporary wage compensation Bente SORGENFREY Denmark Made Several agreements with enterprises to arrange specific working conditions Cinzia DEL RIO Italy Negotiated with government and employers for financial support for employees in food, beverages and catering sector Peter SCHMIDT Germany Updated labour legislation to secure workers’ rights during the coronavirus pandemic Charles VELLA Malta Launched the project “Companies that help” Patricia CÍREZ Spain Concluded a tripartite agreement on vocational training for young people Dorthe ANDERSEN Denmark Negotiated workers' rights with companies Ferre WYCKMANS Belgium Works to build an economic program, “Plan A: for an Economy for Life”, to meet the challenges of our post-covid society Carlos TRIAS PINTÓ Spain Implemented measures for the continuation of work in the construction field Laurențiu PLOSCEANU Romania Providing personalised guidance to support and boost the economic recovery Claudine OTTO Luxembourg Launched a voucher platform to help retailers and businesses Karl-Peter SCHACKMANN-FALLIS Germany Presented good practices of Bulgarian companies for the organization of work during the pandemic situation Milena ANGELOVA Bulgaria Ensured food supply via supermarkets and reoriented textile factories towards the production of masks Gonçalo LOBO XAVIER Portugal Elaborated over 25 specific measures to tackle the negative results from COVID-19 Georgi STOEV Bulgaria More than 97 000 jobs were saved by managing a temporary wage subsidy scheme Veselin MITOV Bulgaria Supported workers’ rights for organizations on front line (emergency medical services, postal workers) Minel IVAȘCU Romania Involved in the consultations on the elaboration of normative acts and suggested social protection measures for employees and their families Sabin RUSU Romania Fear, resilience, and then? Laure BATUT France Negotiations on more flexible working conditions for workers and unemployment security Maria HÄGGMAN Finland Un fonds de solidarité pour les professions libérales et les PME, et des mesures fiscales pour stimuler les investissements Marie-Françoise GONDARD-ARGENTI France Promotion de la responsabilité sociale et civique et distribution d’équipements de protection Dumitru FORNEA Roumanie Managed social dialogue on protocols for resuming activity Franca SALIS-MADINIER France Offered counselling and financed laptops to ensure the technical equipment for distance learning Judith VORBACH Austria Helped protect employment and the viability of firms Martina ŠIRHALOVÁ Slovakia Developed a Guide to Corona prevention in Business Dirk BERGRATH Germany Cooperated with trade unions and provided the public sector with assistance Tellervo KYLÄ-HARAKKA-RUONALA Finland Negotiated a short-time work scheme that guaranteed public funds for companies and 80-90% of workers' income, saving about 1.2 million jobs Sophia REISECKER Austria Set up a series of actions to help SMEs from Confederation of Spanish SMEs and from the businesses organizations in Catalonia Helena DE FELIPE LEHTONEN Spain Advice and support for companies Timo VUORI Finland Acknowledging the value of social economy enterprises is key to overcoming the COVID-19 crisis Miguel Ángel CABRA DE LUNA Spain Informed members of measures to protect themselves and their companies in order to mitigate economic losses Manthos MAVROMATIS Cyprus Issued more than 30 certificates to support members of the Chamber and held more than 100 consultations Radosvet RADEV Bulgaria The agreement between the social partners helps companies and the unemployed Pekka RISTELÄ Finland “Everything will be fine”: Italy, a country of solidarity Antonio LONGO Italy Set up a COVID-19 hotline and negotiated the regularization of temporary contracts Jose Antonio MORENO DIAZ Spain
Reorganized all its resources to resolving emerging issues and providing assistance to members Violeta JELIĆ Croatia
Set up a COVID-19 info point and launched a hardship fund for self-employed people and sole traders Christa SCHWENG Austria
Dialogue with Government and regular surveys on the effects of the Corona pandemic on skilled trades enterprises Holger SCHWANNECKE Germany
Negotiated with government and employers for financial support for employees in food, beverages and catering sector Peter SCHMIDT Germany
Updated labour legislation to secure workers’ rights during the coronavirus pandemic Charles VELLA Malta
Works to build an economic program, “Plan A: for an Economy for Life”, to meet the challenges of our post-covid society Carlos TRIAS PINTÓ Spain
Implemented measures for the continuation of work in the construction field Laurențiu PLOSCEANU Romania
Presented good practices of Bulgarian companies for the organization of work during the pandemic situation Milena ANGELOVA Bulgaria
Ensured food supply via supermarkets and reoriented textile factories towards the production of masks Gonçalo LOBO XAVIER Portugal
Elaborated over 25 specific measures to tackle the negative results from COVID-19 Georgi STOEV Bulgaria
Supported workers’ rights for organizations on front line (emergency medical services, postal workers) Minel IVAȘCU Romania
Involved in the consultations on the elaboration of normative acts and suggested social protection measures for employees and their families Sabin RUSU Romania
Negotiations on more flexible working conditions for workers and unemployment security Maria HÄGGMAN Finland
Un fonds de solidarité pour les professions libérales et les PME, et des mesures fiscales pour stimuler les investissements Marie-Françoise GONDARD-ARGENTI France
Promotion de la responsabilité sociale et civique et distribution d’équipements de protection Dumitru FORNEA Roumanie
Offered counselling and financed laptops to ensure the technical equipment for distance learning Judith VORBACH Austria
Cooperated with trade unions and provided the public sector with assistance Tellervo KYLÄ-HARAKKA-RUONALA Finland
Negotiated a short-time work scheme that guaranteed public funds for companies and 80-90% of workers' income, saving about 1.2 million jobs Sophia REISECKER Austria
Set up a series of actions to help SMEs from Confederation of Spanish SMEs and from the businesses organizations in Catalonia Helena DE FELIPE LEHTONEN Spain
Acknowledging the value of social economy enterprises is key to overcoming the COVID-19 crisis Miguel Ángel CABRA DE LUNA Spain
Informed members of measures to protect themselves and their companies in order to mitigate economic losses Manthos MAVROMATIS Cyprus
Issued more than 30 certificates to support members of the Chamber and held more than 100 consultations Radosvet RADEV Bulgaria
Set up a COVID-19 hotline and negotiated the regularization of temporary contracts Jose Antonio MORENO DIAZ Spain
