EU: European Commission to launch the second step of the consultation on the conciliation of private and professional life

The commission wants to launch, in the coming weeks, the second step in the consultation of social partners on the conciliation of private and professional life. It could suggest tracks to improve the European regulation frame and invit European employers and trade union organizations to negotiate these amendments. This consultation is a part of a broader approach from the EU to support family policies in order to accept the demographic challenge. Indeed, another communication entitled "promote solidarity between generations", setting the bases for the alliance for the family supported by the EU's German presidency (see our story n° 61225), has been adopted at the same time. (Ref. 070419)
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Contrary to what we had announced in our first version of this dispatch, the Commission did not adopt the consultation document last May 10. It had to postpone this publishing to take into account the last exchanges between European social partners, the European Commission specified. The 13 employers and union organizations which answered to the consultation launched in October 2006 (see our story n°06108) think that it is necessary to go further in the establishment of measures aiming at makin

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