EU: the framework of actions for gender equality, negotiated by the social partners, for is evaluated for the first time

The European social partners are finalizing their report on the implementation of the framework of action for gender equality. This first exercise of evaluation is considered to be rather satisfactory by the signatory organizations (Unice and CEEP for employers, ETUC on the trade-union side). (Réf. 061266)
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For Sinead Tiernan, adviser at the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), “this joint initiative of the European social partners tackles the inequalities between men and women by devoting a practical approach”. Indeed, the framework of actions, which does not have a constraining range like other results of the negotiation between European social partners, contains the commitment of their share to reinforce the equality between men and women and identifies four grounds that the trade-unions

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