European social partners addressed a joint response to the second phase of consultation on the conciliation between private and professional life, launched on May 30, 2007, by the European Commission (see our dispatch n°070472). The commit to talk about a balance sheet of the directive on parental leave, which went over the text of their first interprofessional agreement concluded at the European level. (Ref. 070644)
In their answer to the first phase of consultation, European employers judged that the EU should not intervene on this topic, favouring the national level, and certainly not by creating new leave rights. As for the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC,) it expressly asked for a revision of the existing legislative frame.
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