Traduction de «Bonne marche du travail » (Français → Anglais) :

24. Stresses the need to take more preventive health measures, step-up vocational (re)training and combat discrimination in the labour market of younger and older workers; underlines the need for effective enforcement and implementation of legislation on health and safety at work in this regard; stresses that mentoring schemes can be a valuable tool for the purposes of keeping older employees in work for longer and exploiting their experience to help integrate young people into the employment market; calls on social partners to dev ...[+++]elop attractive models for a flexible transition from work to retirement;

6. Considers that the current effects of the crisis will have long-term impacts for women due to the highly gender-segregated nature of the labour market, with the concentration of women in sectors that are characterised by low pay and informal and part-time patterns of work which have a direct impact on women’s pension contributions; underlines the importance of addressing labour market segmentation and the root causes of the feminisation of poverty by providing both adequate social protection in periods of transition and in cases of temporary or part-time employment contracts, and access to training ...[+++], career development and full-time work opportunities; calls for the identification of best practices and recommendations for Member States with regard to their national measures to integrate or reintegrate women into the labour force and, more generally, to eradicate poverty and the social exclusion of women and children;

44. Stresses the need to carry out the necessary reforms to guarantee the sustainability of pension systems; believes that retirement age could be evaluated on the basis of the evolution of healthy life expectancy, but recalls that it is possible to raise the actual retirement age without raising the mandatory retirement age by reducing the number of people leaving the labour market early; believes that to successfully raise effective retirement ages, reforms in pension systems need to be accompanied by policies that limit the access to early retirement schemes and other early exit pathways, develop employment opportunities for older w ...[+++]orkers, guarantee access to life-long learning, introduce tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work, and support active healthy ageing;

42. Stresses the need to carry out the necessary reforms to guarantee the sustainability of pension systems; believes that retirement age could be evaluated on the basis of the evolution of healthy life expectancy, but recalls that it is possible to raise the actual retirement age without raising the mandatory retirement age by reducing the number of people leaving the labour market early; believes that to successfully raise effective retirement ages, reforms in pension systems need to be accompanied by policies that limit the access to early retirement schemes and other early exit pathways, develop employment opportunities for older w ...[+++]orkers, guarantee access to life-long learning, introduce tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work, and support active healthy ageing;

G. whereas precarious work is a persistent feature of the European Union's labour market, and whereas women are more affected by such precarity, are discriminated against in terms of pay and are more involved in part-time work, and are therefore paid less than men, enjoy less social protection, are more restricted in terms of career progression and have less chance of economic independence, which encourages them to return to the private sphere, with a subsequent setback in the sharing of responsibilities; whereas women represent a great proportion of workers in undeclared employment, who are engaged mainly in domestic and care work;

Building on the lessons learned under the previous Employment and Adapt Initiatives, the Equal Initiative seeks to promote a labour market open to all through new means of combating all forms of discrimination and inequality. To that end it covers the whole of the territory of the Union and emphasises the transnational nature of projects, the genuine involvement of local and regional authorities, as well as businesses, and the dissemination of good practice.