Traduction de «horaire normal de travail » (Français → Anglais) :

12. Calls on the Commission to boost the effectiveness and public profile of the ESF, thus making it more accessible, with a view to having more funds allocated to it for expanding access to the job market through the effective implementation of lifelong training to enable people to adapt to labour-demand changes in an era of globalisation and the computerisation of work, and for introducing flexible working time and promoting part-time working and teleworking as means of getting more people into the job market, guaranteeing opportunities for European citizens, with special emphasis on the most disadvantaged people (national, ethnic minorities su ...[+++]ch as the Roma minority and the disabled), to make themselves more employable and adaptable and generating the conditions for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and economic and social cohesion; recalls that the effectiveness of the ESF depends on its capacity to adapt to local problems and specific territorial requirements; underlines the importance of lifelong vocational training for all ESF employees; therefore calls on the Commission and Member States to secure strong synergies between the Structural Funds and relevant European policies as well as promote projects that meet demands of the labour market;

7. Welcomes some Member States’ introduction of provisions to allow employees with care responsibilities to reconcile their responsibilities with their professional obligations by means of more flexible working arrangements; calls on the Commission and Member States actively to support carers in the workplace by providing flexible working conditions, including leave entitlements and flexi-time, part-time and home-working arrangements, which would enable more carers in all Member States to remain in or return to paid employment;

If we are to attract parents of young children, the elderly or other groups who find standard ‘nine-to-five’ work impossible, we must achieve more flexible working hours, have better and more accessible childcare provisions, more family-friendly tax policies and greater equality in the workplace.

N. whereas the study carried out for the Commission by Barnard, Deakin and Hobbs of Cambridge University shows that the use of the individual opt-out allowed by the United Kingdom is a result partly of employees choosing to work longer hours in order to secure higher pay and partly of the UK's difficulties in being able to take advantage of other instances of flexibility provided for in the Directive; whereas this may have serious consequences for the health and safety of more than four million workers, together with a method of implementing the directive which makes it difficult to be certain that free and voluntary choices can be mad ...[+++]e,

(d) in the case of unpaid voluntary work, the value of that work is determined taking into account the amount of time spent and the normal hourly and daily rate for the work carried out.

The full rate should be counted, not just the premium element added to the normal hourly rate.