Ensuring a needs-based work-life balance for all: How adequate flexible working conditions can support intergenerational solidarity and the empowerment of women - Related links

European Commission

• COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Demographic change in Europe: a toolbox for action, COM/2023/577 final
• Flexible working arrangements and gender equality in Europe
• The transposition of the Work-Life Balance Directive in EU Member States (II) Considerable work still to be done
• Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU PE/20/2019/REV/1, OJ L 188, 12.7.2019, p. 79–93
• Council Directive 92/85/EEC of 19 October 1992 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding (tenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC), OJ L 348, 28.11.1992, p. 1–7
• Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast), OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 23–36
• COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025, COM/2020/152 final
• Press release - A European Care Strategy for caregivers and care receivers
• The European Pillar of Social Rights in 20 principles
• The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan

European Council - Council of the European Union

• Better work-life balance for parents and carers in the EU: Council adopts new rules

European Parliament

• Demographic change in Europe: A toolbox for action
• REPORT on care services in the EU for improved gender equality
• REPORT towards a common European action on care
• Teleworking, unpaid care and mental health during Covid-19

Eurofound

• Flexible work increases post-pandemic, but not for everyone
• Regulations to address work–life balance in digital flexible working arrangements

BusinessEurope

• Work-life balance for working parents and carers - a BusinessEurope position paper

ETUC

• ETUC urges EU governments to move rapidly to implement the Work-Life Balance Directive

Others

• Implementation of the EU Directives on Work-Life Balance and on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions across Central Europe