In the view of Advent sundays, Churches and the German Trade Union DGB in Nordrhein Westfalen region (Germany) call for a significant review of the law on shop opening hours. This law has led to dramatic weakening of  the protection of sunday and bank holidays, they say.

Im Vorfeld der Adventssonntage sprechen sich die Kirchen in NRW und der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund Bezirk NRW für eine spürbare Überarbeitung des nordrhein-westfälischen Ladenöffnungsgesetzes aus. Zur Gesamten Pressemeldung

Saturday November 26th is Buy Nothing Day (UK). It's a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch off from shopping and tune into life. The rules are simple, for 24 hours you will detox from shopping and anyone can take part provided they spend a day without spending!

The Compostella Group invites you to the high-level round table on work, to be held at the European Economic and Social Committee on 8 December 2011, thirty years on from the publication of the social encyclical letter Laborem exercens.

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the social encyclical letter Laborem Exercens, the EPP Group, the S&D Group and COMECE invite to a Conference on LABOREM EXERCENS The central place of Human Work for the European Social Market Economy.

In the framework of the European Year of Volunteering and with regard to the recommendations of the Stiglitz report, the findings of the recent OECD report Cooking, Caring and Volunteering: Unpaid Work Around the World, and the EESC Opinions SOC/243, SOC/366 et SOC/399, the FAFCE organises a conference under the sponsorship of Group III of the European Economic and Social Committee on the contribution of « invisible work » to the creation of wealth – an added value to the social cohesion.