Traduction de «Garde d'enfants » (Français → Anglais) :

Considers it essential to combat precarious and undeclared work, given that this phenomenon severely affects domestic workers, including particularly migrant women workers, thus worsening their already vulnerable position; stresses the importance of eradicating and prosecuting such practices, including child labour; in this regard, supports tackling the precarious situation of domestic workers and carers within the framework of the European platform against undeclared work; recalls that undeclared work deprives them of social security cover and has a negative impact on their working conditions in terms of health and safety; expects, ...[+++]therefore, that the European platform against undeclared work will prevent and discourage undeclared work, as the undeclared economy threatens job security, affects the quality of care and working conditions for many undeclared carers, puts the sustainability of the social welfare system at risk and reduces tax income for states’ coffers.

whereas ‘care’ means work carried out in public or private institutions or in a private household or households to provide personal care for children, elderly, ill or disabled people; whereas care work can be performed by professional carers who may be employed by public or private entities or families or be self-employed, and/or it can also be performed by non-professional carers, who are usually family members.

Calls on the Member States to include domestic workers and carers in all national labour, healthcare, social care, insurance and anti-discrimination laws, recognising their contribution to the economy and society; urges the Commission accordingly to consider revising any EU directives which exclude domestic workers and carers from rights that other categories of workers enjoy.

As far as the quality in services is concerned, the report found that the systems of childcare provisions prevalent across Europe allow local authorities to be relatively responsive to the needs of working parents with children aged between 3 and 6, much less for those who fall outside this category (e.g. in the care for children or families with special needs, or for very young (0-3) or school-age children).

Child minding The Committee said that child minding was a condition sine qua non of the right to equal access to employment and proposed that the Commission of the European Communities draw up a recommendation or a directive to oblige the Member States to set up a child-minding system which was satisfactory from both the qualitative and quantitative point of view.

The Case of Child Care The Commission has just adopted, on an initiative by Mrs Vasso PAPANDREOU, EC Commissioner responsible for Social Affairs, a Council's Recommendation on childcare : a subject to which it attaches considerable importance.