Translation of "Travailleur social spécialiste en aide familiale " (French → English) :

Lastly, the commission emphasizes the importance of respect for the rights of migrant workers, in particular those of agricultural workers and live-in caregivers who are vulnerable.

In the documents provided to us by our researchers, I see that the largest group, after skilled workers, is live-in caregivers; the largest number of women coming to work in Canada fall into that category.

42. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take steps to promote and achieve greater recognition, both legal and social, for the work of women in the fisheries sector, and to ensure that women who work full- or part-time for family undertakings or assist their spouses, thereby contributing to their own economic sustainability and that of their families, receive legal recognition or social benefits equivalent to those enjoyed by people with self-employed status, in particular by applying Directive 2010/41/EU, and that their s ...[+++]ocial and economic rights are guaranteed, including equal pay, the right to unemployment benefit if they lose their jobs (temporarily or permanently), the right to a pension, work-life balance, access to maternity leave, access to social security and free healthcare, and workplace health and safety, as well as other social and economic rights including insurance covering risks at sea;

43. Stresses that flexible working is increasingly demanded by both employers and employees, and that, in the face of the challenge of demographic change, it is a proven way to increase female participation, as well as to extend the working lives of older people; recalls that education, qualifications and training form part of high-quality employment and that attention needs to be paid to social incentives for families, including childcare infrastructure, which is one of the preconditions for increasing the labour participation of women; supports the adoption of a balanced set of common princip ...[+++]les regarding flexicurity, combining flexibility and security for employees and employers on the labour market; encourages the Member States to mainstream these common principles in their NRP consultation with the social partners, and highlights the central role of work-life balance measures, the promotion of equal opportunities for all, training and retraining, active labour market policies, adequate social protection and the breakdown of labour market segmentation by ensuring employment rights for all workers;

2. Calls on the Commission to draft a directive providing for the introduction of “frontier-effect” reports. Such reports would oblige Member States, when changing their legislation on social security, taxation, employment, systems of provisions and benefits for health care, unemployment and incapacity to work, child allowances, study grants, pension systems and other social schemes, to study the impact on frontier workers, while taking care that this does not lead to legal uncertainty; considers that this directive should also create a framework for a compensation scheme ba ...[+++]sed on the principle that if, after carrying out such a frontier-effect report, a Member State amends social or fiscal legislation which is unfairly detrimental to frontier workers, it must compensate them for the loss of income incurred;

take an initiative designed to improve the social conditions of employment while ensuring a better balance between working life and life outside work through the adaptation and flexibilisation of working time, using different formulae and procedures to be negotiated between the social partners (such as flexibilisation of weekly hours, part-time work, sabbatical and parental leave and the gradual reduction of working time prior to retirement), in recognition of the fact that different sections of the population have different aspiratio ...[+++]ns and expectations regarding their working lives; state how it intends to contribute to reforming and reducing working time - over and above codifying the existing provisions - in order both to enable workers to combine work and family life more successfully and to improve the social conditions of employment, while retaining business competitiveness in the global marketplace;