Traduction de «Réduction d'horaire de travail » (Français → Anglais) :

11. Draws attention to the increasing prevalence of flexible working hours: weekend work, irregular and unpredictable working hours and the extension of the working day, and to the fact that, given that the demand for flexibility is greatest amongst part-time workers, who are mostly women, this means that more women than men have their working hours changed from week to week, making it even harder for women to strike a balance between work and family life, especially single mothers and those caring for dependent family members; stresses that work contracts should be stable and working hours scheduled, but that working hours may be negot ...[+++]iated upon the employee’s request in order better to reconcile professional, family and private life; emphasises that flexible working hours should be the worker’s decision, and should not be imposed or enforced by the employer; rejects situations of flexibility and contractual uncertainty that do not allow for family formation and stability;

Interestingly, the length of working time appears highly inversely correlated with levels of hourly productivity across Member States.

2. Draws attention to the need to ensure that the relevant statistics are coherent, comparable, gender-specific, complete and designed to take account of new systems of classifying and organising staff and reforming work organisation, and considers that the pay gap should not simply be determined on the basis of differences in gross hourly earnings but should also take account of factors such as individual pay supplements, professional qualifications, personal aptitudes and skills, work organisation patterns, professional experience and productivity, which should be measured not only in quantitative terms (hours when the worker is physically present at the workplace) but also in qualitative terms and in terms of the impact which ...[+++]reductions in working hours, periods of leave and absences for health reasons have on automatic pay rises.

G. whereas the pay gap is not based solely on disparities in gross hourly earnings and account should also be taken of factors such as individual pay supplements, job classification, work organisation patterns, professional experience and productivity, which should be measured not only in quantitative terms (hours when the worker is physically present at the workplace) but also in qualitative terms and in terms of the earnings impact of shorter working hours, leave and health-related absences,

Social dialogue and worker involvement: progress has been made as regards lifelong learning collective agreements (Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy and Portugal), equal opportunities aiming at reducing gender pay inequalities (Belgium, Finland, Netherlands and Ireland), at combating race discrimination (France, Denmark and Ireland), at increasing employment of disabled persons (Belgium Italy and Ireland) and at preventing age discrimination (Demark and Austria); health and safety at work collective agreements on the prevention and treatment of stress (Belgium), on well-being and psychological work environment (Denmark) and against the e ...[+++]xcessive workload (the Netherlands); flexibility and work-life balance collective agreements on parental leave (Sweden), on family leave and family-linked working time patterns (Belgium, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands), on sabbaticals (Finland), on childcare arrangements (Greece, Ireland and the Netherlands), on flexitime and teleworking (Italy, Austria, and Denmark) and on temporary agency workers (Italy and Germany).

30. Underlines the significance of measures to promote and encourage quality of life including the development of more and better jobs; stresses in this context the importance of the Social Agenda as an element in a Sustainable Development Strategy; emphasizes that a resource efficient sustainable economy also means enabling people to work efficiently through effective consultation and participation in the work-place, reduced working hours and good quality work in safe working conditions supported by an effective system of social security; calls for rapid progress to be made on the initial steps taken in this direction at the Stockhol ...[+++]m Summit;