Translation of "Men's side " (English → French) :

39. Calls on the Member States to implement rules establishing paid maternity/paternity leave following the birth of a child and to promote the use of the right to parental leave shared equitably between women and men; urges the Member States, to this end, to combat the economic, social and cultural prejudices associated with the right of parental leave for men; calls on the Commission to revise Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3 June 1996 on the framework agreement on parental leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC ; considers that parental leave, with a simultaneous guarantee of job retention, should be taken up by both fathers an ...[+++]d mothers; advocates a system of incentives which will encourage partners to share parental leave, and recompense for the costs associated with bringing up children; calls on the Commission to consult both sides of industry on possible changes to the reforms concerning parental leave which were introduced in 1996, the purpose of which might be to extend the minimum period of three months to six;

I said in a previous reply that what we all aspire to in the Middle East is a situation where the Palestinian and Israeli peoples can live side by side in peace and respect each other's cultural positions – a situation where young Palestinian men and women do not aspire to becoming suicide bombers and where young Israeli women and men do not have to consider going into the army or the dangers of being blown up on their streets.

These men have a personal vendetta against each other with people on both sides paying; the Israeli side by suicide bombings and the Palestinian side by rockets, tanks and American supplied helicopters.

14. Calls on the two sides of industry to provide clear information concerning pay differentials between men and women and to ensure transparency with regard to the value scales used in the wage formation process, in order to enable such information to be used to develop a policy based on a gradual approach in which the emphasis is on specific targets; calls on the two sides of industry to implement analytical job rating systems;

Instead of having the government on this side and the opposition on that side, they would almost want to have men on one side and women on the other and make sure it was equal.

We must remember that there is also an important contingent of men and women working side by side those men and women in uniform. They are the civilian workers who team up to provide Canada with an excellent, proud and professional service.