ETUC Conference
Luxembourg, 11-12 March 2010
You may be interested to attend this ETUC conference ’From membership to leadership: advancing women in trade unions’, pls see attached and below.
14 sponsored seats are available amongst the 12 ETUC European Industry federations.
It will be a good opportunity for a follow-up to the EPSU/SKTF report on women’s representation in EPSU and affiliates ( 2009), as presented at the last EPSU Executive Committee, nov. 2009
Also the draft agenda of (...)
REQUEST FOR URGENT ACTION
Yesterday 23 February, the European Parliament’s women’s rights committee adopted the Estrela report on the revised pregnant workers directive- 19 votes in favour, 13 against.
Vote in plenary is scheduled for 24 or 25 March.
Given the opposition by some governments, business and some groups in parliament ( EPP and Liberals), we need you to contact your MEPs and express support for the Estrela report , especially :
Increase of maternity leave from 14 weeks (...)
Gender pay gap questionnaire, February 2010
The gender pay gap was discussed at each of the last meetings of the Local and Regional Government (LRG), National and European Administration (NEA) and Health and Social Services (HSS) Committees. At the LRG and NEA meetings the discussion was in the context of developing a Pay Checklist that focuses on the various elements that make up a fair pay system. In the HSS meeting the debate was partly a follow-up to the Committee’s response to the (...)
(1 February 2010)
Presentation on the framework agreement on parental leave (revised) at the ETUC women’s committee meeting of 15-16 December 2009
The ETUC is working on an interpretation guide, which will be sent at a later date.
For the full text of the agreement, please see > here
Présentation concernant l’accord-cadre sur le congé parental (révisé), lors de la dernière réunion du Comité des femmes, 15-16.12.2009
La CES travaille sur un guide d’interprétation qui vous sera envoyé (...)
(Brussels, 20 January, 2010) The Women’s’ Rights and Gender Equality Committee of the European Parliament (FEMM) will hold a public hearing on identifying a new EU strategy for Gender Equality. The hearing is set for 28 January 2010. (more info here)
The hearing, entitled: "Towards a new EU strategy for gender equality". is related to the own-initiative report recommending actions and initiatives for the new EU gender strategy, based on the assessment of the results of the Roadmap for (...)
The EPSU Congress resolution on equal pay between women and men commits us to setting up “an equal pay and/or pay negotiators network drawn from the EPSUCOB@ network to follow-up implementation of the resolution and regularly report on developments to EPSU’s Executive Committee”.
The EPSU equal pay network will operate mainly via email to help exchange information on progress and obstacles to closing the gender pay gap, which stands, on average, at about 12% in the public sector in the EU. You (...)
Conference follow-up, declaration signed by conference participants including EPSU
(26 October 2009) Key actors including scientists, politicians and law enforcement representatives will present and debate national strategies to combat human trafficking for sexual exploitation.
How can trade union organisations and industry-based federations be a part of the fight against human trafficking for sexual exploitation?
3 of December 2009, 8.30-17.30
Polstjärnan, Sveavägen 77
Stockholm, Sweden (...)
(22 October 2009, Brussels)
The debate about ensuring gender balance in the EU top jobs is growing in intensity here in Brussels. With both the Commission and European Parliament Presidents post currently being held by men (Mr. Barroso and Mr. Buzek respectively), pressure is growing to ensure that at least one of the two new ‘post-Lisbon’ positions will be held by a women.
The posts of EU Council President and EU foreign policy chief are due to be filled in the coming months. EU media has (...)
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