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The Budgetary Control Committee (CONT) organised the workshop on ‘Open spaces at EU institutions versus traditional work spaces: justification, evolution, evaluation and results’ on 29 October 2020. This document consists of the proceedings of the workshop, the briefing on ‘Open Plan Offices - The new ways of working’, biographies of the speakers and the PowerPoint slides of the presentations.

EaSI is an umbrella programme that brings together three previous EU programmes managed separately: Progress, Eures and the Progress Microfinance Facility. Progress helps to finance good analytical data about social policies and their dissemination, in order to base EU policies on evidence. Eures focuses on employment and encourages professional mobility. The Microfinance Facility provides help to social enterprises, namely by providing vulnerable groups with a financial contribution to let them ...

Even though the most obvious forms of sex discrimination have been considerably reduced in the USA society, discrimination takes much more subtle forms. This note offers an overview of the situation in the US (at federal level) regarding gender equality and is based on 5 themes: sex discrimination in the workplace; reconciliation of private and professional life; access to health care; equal representation in decision-making; eradication of all forms of genderbased violence. It appears that, depending ...

Document du Rencontre parlementaire conjointe, organisée sur le sujet de la "Cohésion sociale et évolution démographique dans une Europe durable" les 5 et 6 décembre 2011 à Bruxelles.

The first reading of the revision, proposed in 2008, to the Maternity Leave Directive has yet to be concluded. The EP has adopted its position, voting, inter alia, to increase minimum paid leave beyond the Commission's proposal. In the Council, however, progress has halted, with many Member States expressing strong reservations over both Commission and EP positions.

Le congé de maternité et le congé parental, ainsi que les avantages qui en découlent, sont des moyens importants par lesquels les États providence accordent un soutien aux familles afin de contribuer à la reproduction sociale, de garantir aux enfants un bon départ dans la vie, de protéger le bien-être des enfants et des mères et, plus récemment, de lutter contre les problèmes démographiques et économiques et d’aider les familles à trouver un équilibre entre le travail et la famille, ce qui est une ...

This paper explores the main current Spanish legislation and policies relating to gender equality. Spain has moved in approximately three decades from being a ‘latecomer’ to being a ‘pioneer’ in gender equality policies. During this time Spain has consolidated its institutional machinery on gender equality policies (section 1.1). It has developed a strategy to promote gender equality based on equal opportunities, positive actions (2.3), and gender mainstreaming (2.2), and has adopted both plans and ...

This report sets out the nature of the gender imbalance in the transport sector across the newly enlarged Europe. It highlights the nature of travel differences between men and women as transport users and consumers and the implications this has for the planning, operations and management of the transport system. It sets out the challenges faced by institutions within the transport sector to mainstream gender equality. It also highlights the male-domination of employment within all areas of the transport ...

This report investigates whether there is a conflict between European harmonised legislation covering personal protective equipment at work and the freedom of orthodox Sikhs to practise their religious customs, in particular to wear uncut hair and beards, a comb in the hair knot on top of the head and a Turban for male Sikhs. We found evidence for such a conflict in the UK, where the implementation in national law of the relevant EU directives (DIR 89/656/EEC and 89/686/EEC) resulted in a reversal ...