EU Action Plan 2017-2019 - Tackling the gender pay gap (communication) - Related Opinions

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Teleworking and gender equality - conditions so that teleworking does not exacerbate the unequal distribution of unpaid care and domestic work between women and men and for it to be an engine for promoting gender equality

verabschiedet on 24/03/2021
Referenz: 
SOC/662-EESC-2020
Rapporteur: 
Milena ANGELOVA (Employers - GR I / Bulgaria)
Co-rapporteur: 
Erika KOLLER (Workers - GR II/Hungary)
Plenartagung: 
559 -
Mar 24, 2021 Mar 25, 2021

Teleworking has the potential to support work-life balance and should be a means of promoting gender equality. For this, the burden of the unpaid care and domestic work performed by women must be fully shared with men. Then, the rules applying to the workplace must be applied to the home office, including on health and safety and protection against harassment and violence. As  there is no consolidated European framework on telework, it is necessary to assess existing rules' effectiveness. Social partners should review the 2002 Framework Agreement on Telework and give it a new impetus.

Stellungnahme des Ausschusses: Teleworking and gender equality - conditions so that teleworking does not exacerbate the unequal distribution of unpaid care and domestic work between women and men and for it to be an engine for promoting gender equality

Leaving no one behind when implementing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (own-initiative opinion)

verabschiedet on 30/10/2019
Referenz: 
SC/53-EESC-2019-02446
Rapporteur: 
Peter SCHMIDT (Workers - GR II / Germany)
Co-rapporteur: 
Lutz RIBBE (Diversity Europe - GR III/Germany)

The proposed opinion will look at new approaches to more fairly distributing the burden of transformation towards a sustainable Europe.

Stellungnahme des Ausschusses: Leaving no one behind when implementing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (own-initiative opinion)

Digitalisation, Al and Equity - How to strenghten the EU in the global race of future skills and education, while ensuring social inclusion (Exploratory opinion at the request of the Finnish Presidency)

verabschiedet on 25/09/2019
Referenz: 
SOC/622-EESC-2019
Rapporteur: 
Tellervo KYLÄ-HARAKKA-RUONALA (Finland)
Co-rapporteur: 
Giulia BARBUCCI (Workers - GR II/Italy)

This opinion calls on the EU to develop a strategy to enhance continuous, learner-centred learning, with digitalisation and the deployment of trustworthy AI at its heart, and stresses the essential role of both public education and non-formal education to enhance  inclusiveness and active citizenship. Such a strategy requires an increased allocation of EU funds and more cooperation between policymakers, education providers, social partners and other civil society organisations.

Stellungnahme des Ausschusses: Digitalisation, Al and Equity - How to strenghten the EU in the global race of future skills and education, while ensuring social inclusion (Exploratory opinion at the request of the Finnish Presidency)

Gender equality issues (own initiative opinion)

verabschiedet on 15/05/2019
Referenz: 
SOC/610-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Indrė VAREIKYTĖ (Lithuania)

Gender equality is not only a human rights issue; it is a social and economic necessity for the EU, its Member States and businesses, as it hugely impacts on sustainable growth and GDP, while allowing to use the potential of 51% of the EU population. The EU needs to elevate gender equality to a stand-alone goal with a binding strategy, centred in the following measures: fighting the economic inequality affecting women and the current backlash of their rights; ratifying and implementing the Istanbul Convention on all forms of violence against women (including harassment); addressing once and for all gendered stereotypes, namely through the media; and supporting civil society organisations working for greater gender equality.

Stellungnahme des Ausschusses: Gender equality issues (own initiative opinion)

Gender equality in European labour markets (Exploratory opinion from the European Parliament)

verabschiedet on 12/12/2018
Referenz: 
SOC/586-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Helena DE FELIPE LEHTONEN (Employers - GR I / Spain)

This opinion responds to a request from European Parliament for an exploratory opinion on gender equality in European labour markets, which had put a special emphasis on the pay situation and care obligations.
The opinion considers it necessary to draw up an integrated and ambitious European strategy to tackle systemic and structural obstacles and lead to policies for improving equality between women and men and to help implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights. It reiterates the EESC positions on the gender pay gap and work-life balance and recommends gender neutral pay systems. It pleads to fight gender segregation in education, training and the labour market, in particular of women belonging to vulnerable groups.

Stellungnahme des Ausschusses: Gender equality in European labour markets (Exploratory opinion from the European Parliament)

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