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The European Commission is consulting over a number measures in response to the demographic challenge - the ageing of the European workforce and falling birth rate. Its consultation paper looks in particular at initiatives to improve the balance between professional life and family life. The consultation will consider what changes might be necessary to rights to maternity and paternity leave and how more flexible working patterns might help employees deal with their caring responsibilities. The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has produced a report which covers many of these issues and brings together articles that have appeared on the EIRO website with examples of negotiated improvements in parental leave and working time flexibility.
Read more at > DG Employment (EN, FR, DE)
Read more at > European Foundation
