EU: European social partners launch toolkit for gender equality at work

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7 May 2014 à 12h12

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At the conference organized today in Madrid, the European social partners (ETUC for unions and BusinessEurope, UEAPME and CEEP for employers) presented their toolkit for professional equality, which lists 100 good practices from 25 countries, coming either from companies or from employers or union organizations.  These initiatives are listed in a database, where it is possible to do a search by priority, sector, organization size and country.
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This topic was on the social partners’ work program 2012-2014 (see article No. 120147) but its origin dates back to 2005 and the framework of actions to promote gender equality they had negotiated. This new project aimed to assess the best practices registered in application of this framework of actions and spread them via a toolkit.

Broadcasted on the ETUC’s resource center (WWW.RESOURCECENTRE.ETUC.ORG/GENDERTOOLKIT) and one employers’ joint resource center (WWW.ERC-ONLINE.EU/GENDERTOOLKIT),

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