Translation of "arrêt de travail " (French → English) :

L. whereas research has shown that mental health problems account for large-scale productivity loss, absenteeism and days off work; whereas it is therefore vital for all stakeholders to address both the causes and the symptoms of poor mental health in order to have a resilient and productive workforce that can manage a work-life balance; whereas a gender perspective on mental health at work is required, in part due to prevailing gender inequalities, and organisational practices that promote them, and to the life roles that working women may need to balance;

K. whereas, according to expert analysis, the gender pay gap starts to be visible after a woman's return to the labour market from her first maternity leave, gets higher with repeated career interruptions because of external factors, such as child-related employment breaks and caring for dependent family members and tends to grow with age and educational level; whereas women's slower, shorter and/or interrupted careers also create a gender differential in contributions to social security systems, thus increasing women's risk of poverty in old age;

K. whereas, according to expert analysis, the gender pay gap starts to be visible after a woman’s return to the labour market from her first maternity leave, gets higher with repeated career interruptions because of external factors, such as child-related employment breaks and caring for dependent family members and tends to grow with age and educational level; whereas women’s slower, shorter and/or interrupted careers also create a gender differential in contributions to social security systems, thus increasing women’s risk of poverty in old age;

Less than 50% of people are still in employment by the age of 60. This goes against Member State commitments at the Barcelona European Council to postpone the age at which people stop working by five years[19].

Individuals then have a choice to stop work and take their pensions, or to continue working and either take their pension or defer it until they choose to stop working.

Many women of pensionable age have an inadequate pension or none at all, whether because they have never worked, have stopped working, have been obliged to stop working, or were employed part-time.