Traduction de «Travaux de ménage » (Français → Anglais) :

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.

O. whereas most domestic workers performing duties such as domestic care, cleaning and catering are women; whereas in industrialised countries domestic work accounts for between 5 and 9% of all employment, whereas such work is mostly precarious, undervalued and informal, and whereas domestic workers' vulnerability means they are often discriminated against and can easily be subjected to unequal, unfair or abusive treatment,

In this respect, three widespread phenomena stand out, work undertaken in the construction, catering and textile industries, frequently through recruitment by organized criminal networks; the selling of often counterfeited merchandise; and domestic work in private households where extreme forms of exploitation often occur.

12. Welcomes the Council’s and Parliament’s decision to allow Member States to levy reduced rates of VAT on services such as community care, minor repair and refurbishment work and cleaning services up to the end of 2003; urges, however, that these jobs too should be of high quality; asks for an in-depth evaluation of the results of this measure in the Member States in order to judge on possible exemptions in the future; calls also on the Council and Member States to ensure that sectors of importance for job creation and social inclusion – such as the social economy – are treated more favourably in terms of taxes and social security c ...[+++]ontributions;

13. Calls on the Commission to take the initiative in combating undeclared work, inter alia by encouraging the Member States to lay down regular rules of employment in sectors where undeclared work is rife, for example in the areas of domestic work and child care;

1. In order to permit multi-dimensional analysis at the level of households and persons and in particular investigation of major issues of social concern that are new and require specific research, all the household and individual data shall be linkable in the cross-sectional component.