The document addressed to the European social partners reminds the community regulations setting out the rights to parental leave: directive 92/85 for improving the health and safety during pregnancy provides for a 14-week continuous maternity leave, directive 96/34 on parental leave grants the right to at least 3 months. Furthermore, the European social partners (Unice/UEAPME, CEEP, ETUC) identified, within the framework of measures on gender equality worked out in 2005, the balance between professional and non-professional life as a priority and invited national unions to look at “flexible work formulas” (particularly with regard to leave) with the objective of enabling beneficiaries to improve this balance without however weakening their job involvement and long-term position on the labour market.
he balance between professional and non-professional life as a priority and invited national unions to look at “flexible work formulas” (particularly with regard to leave) with the objective of enabling beneficiaries to improve this balance without however weakening their job involvement and long-term position on the labour market.
Actions for implementation. For the Commission, if “progress has been achieved at community level” regarding systems of leave, it might be necessary to review certai
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