Traduction de «travailleuse sociale » (Français → Anglais) :

Having regard to Articles 137(1)(c) and 141 of the EC Treaty and the principle of equal treatment (Articles 2, 3 and 13 of the EC Treaty ) and the secondary legislation based on this, in particular Council Directive 75/117/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women ; Council Directive 92/85/EEC on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding ; Council Directive 96/97/EC amending Directive 86/378/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in occupational ...[+++]social security schemes ; and Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast) .

One of the things I was taught early on by a very sage woman social worker, who had dedicated her whole life to women and children and changing conditions, was that if you're not a social advocate as a social worker, then all you're going to do is deal with one problem after the next, one file and then another file, and you won't change the lives of those women.

I, however, could do anything, no matter how dangerous, because I was a home carer.

For years, I had to tell and repeat my life story to the following persons: an emergency nurse, the emergency psychiatrist, a medical assessor at the crisis centre, a psychosocial worker at that centre – they talked about my life history and constantly went back to the traumas, the painful things, and each time I had to start all over from scratch – a psychiatrist at the hospital crisis centre, a social worker at the hospital, an intake officer at the CLSC, a CLSC caseworker, a psychosocial worker at the CLSC and the CLSC family physician.

So I am availing myself of that opportunity. I am a community development worker, and have been a professional social worker for 30 years.

We also call on the Commission to supply information on how it proposes to act on a number of requests we have made: to define an appropriate legal basis for the development of civil dialogue; to provide a tax and legislative framework for the development of the social economy; to integrate the social dimension into competition policy; to submit a directive on social security cover for new forms of employment; to reinforce the action programme and instruments against poverty and social exclusion and submit a proposal to amend Directive 92/85/EC on introducing measures to help improve the health and safety of female workers; and to l ...[+++]aunch an initiative aimed at better guaranteeing the social quality of work.