Translation of "travail équivalent temps plein " (French → English) :

7. Calls on the Member States to facilitate childcare and care networks and to deliver on the Barcelona childcare targets, to provide an alternative where a lack of childcare and carers networks hampers desired full-time employment, to facilitate full time work for women who choose it and to improve labour market participation and economic independence of women; calls on Member States to overcome the obstacles which keep women from working the number of hours they want - be it part-time work or full-time work; encourages the need for a living income and access to full social security benefits whether working full-time or part-time; st ...[+++]resses the danger of recent developments showing that unsecured work has in some sectors driven especially women with young children into poverty;

Pilot studies are also welcome; the harmonization of labour market indicators, namely of working hours requires further work as the concept of "full time equivalent" labour varies widely among Member States.

(b) We cannot be precise about the time and costs involved but as a guideline we have assumed that amending the Ecodesign Directive would require six full time equivalent work from Commission officials and equivalent amounts of time from officials in at least 10 Member States (it is unlikely that all Member States would be involved in the detailed discussions).

For this purpose, Eurostat publishes results on part time employment, full time equivalent employment rates and hours worked by persons employed full time and part time, along with results on time related under-employment and persons outside the labour market but wishing to work.

requests to transfer from part-time to full-time or to increase working time where the opportunity arises.

8. Calls on the Commission and the two sides of industry to make proposals concerning 'atypical' employment to ensure that the irregular work which is prevalent in it is accompanied by adequate social security and employees' rights equivalent to those for full working-time;