Translation of "unable to work " (English → French) :

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';

[Text] Question No. 87 Mr. Tony Martin: With respect to variations among jurisdictions in the application of the National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS): (a) what mechanisms are in place to ensure equal support for all Canadians regardless of their place of residence; (b) where a province or a territory applies a benefit reduction (clawback) to a family's NCBS, does a family still receive, in any case, the same level of overall income support; (c) how does the government ensure that provinces and territories invest proceeds from any clawbacks in programs that are complementary to the NCBS; (d) by province and for each of the last five years, how have provinces reinvested any proceeds from clawbacks; and (e) how many families who see a ...[+++]clawback of their NCBS from a welfare benefit fit into one of the following categories, and for each category, what percentage does it represent of the total number of families receiving the NCBS: (i) working but not earning enough money to qualify for welfare top-up, (ii) disabled or unable to work, (iii) caring for a disabled child under the age of 6 years, (iv) caring for a baby under the age of 1 year, (v) living in a homeless shelter unable to find affordable housing, (vi) paying more than half their income on rent, and (vii) relying on food banks in order to feed their children?

We have a whole class of employees who, because they work for Parks Canada in national parks, are unable to work 12 months of the year. As a result for instance, they cannot get a pension after 25 years of service because they only work six months of the year.

The tragedy of this is that women, who primarily bear the burden of looking after children, are unable to work and make the contributions they might like to make, and unable to have the choices that they wish their families had.

Portuguese and Spanish fishermen have been hard hit by the non-renewal of the agreement because in many cases they have been unable to fish, which means that they have been unable to work.

And how can we not condemn the derisory amount that those who are unable to work receive in benefits?