Translation of "Work-and-whirl imposition " (English → French) :

8. Underlines the need to provide women in precarious jobs with the option of unionised protection of entitlements such as decent pay, maternity leave, fair and regular working hours and a non-discriminatory working environment, which are crucial for these women; calls on the Member States to penalise the imposition of obstacles to trade union participation and in general encourages the Member States, moreover, to provide low-threshold advisory services for women who cannot receive support from a works council, for example employees in private households; calls on the social partners to improve gender parity in their bodies at all leve ...[+++]ls;

He has been a virtual whirling dervish; it is as if he set out in autumn 2005 to squeeze 15 years of Senate work into a mere 45 months.

Although the length of the proposed sentences in Bill C-2 is fairly short in a number of cases, I merely wish to be sure that the other place did its work properly, since imposition of such penalties is extremely controversial and inevitably leads to court challenges.

18. Calls on the Member States to add to or strengthen their national employment and social integration plans so as to include measures to help women enter the labour market on a footing of equal dignity and equal pay for equal work and to promote female entrepreneurship, and to identify and support new work opportunities in the social and health sector and in personal and family services, in which the labour force consists mostly of women, emphasising the economic and social value of such work and providing the regulation required to guarantee the quality of the services, the recognition of the social rights and the dignity of those who deliver them, as well as helping reduce the risk of poverty; considers that due to the unfavourable pos ...[+++]ition of women in the social and economic field, characterised by higher levels of unemployment and lower wages than men, women are at greater risk of exploitation and for this reason calls for the imposition of strict sanctions against exploitative employers;

33. Expresses disappointment over the lack of effective proposals to promote, monitor closely and evaluate the progress of gender equality and the lack of policy measures aimed at facilitating the reconciliation of work and family life, helping those who support persons who are unable to work and generally increasing the flexibility of working time; calls on the Commission to monitor compliance with existing legislation more strictly and, where necessary, to make proposals for its amendment, including the imposition of penalties; calls on the Commission to draw up a specific action plan for equality between men and women with a specifi ...[+++]c emphasis on eliminating the wage gap; calls on the Commission, in this context, to declare 31 March the European day of action for 'equal pay for equal work';

Furthermore, the imposition of a general ban on pregnant women working at night, without any individual assessment of whether night work poses a risk to the woman in question, is considered to be contrary to the Directive.