ETUC Action Programme on Gender Equality Adopted at the Executive Committee on 6-7 March 2012 ETUC Womens’ Committee Meeting 22 March 2012.

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ETUC Action Programme on Gender Equality Adopted at the Executive Committee on 6-7 March 2012 ETUC Womens’ Committee Meeting 22 March 2012

Content outline Introduction Gender Equality continues to be an imperative for the ETUC and its members Five objectives + Key actions Implementation, reporting and evaluation

Five objectives 1.Implementing gender mainstreaming into all ETUC policies 2.Achieving equal pay between women and men 3.Eliminating gender representation gap in decision making bodies 4.Promoting the combination of work, family and private life 5.Addressing the link between domestic violence and workplace rights

The ETUC will set the policy that every document presented to its Executive Committee must contain a gender impact assessment, and at least indicate with a short motivation if and how the gender perspective has been included. A set of draft guidelines to implement gender mainstreaming in trade unions leading to the publication of a brochure will be realized. All ETUC working groups and committees should gender- mainstream their work as well as supporting documents according to these guidelines. Implementing gender mainstreaming into all ETUC policies

The ETUC, with the support of the ETUI, will draw up a comparative study analysing the impact of the crisis on the differential situation of women and men in the labour market, in relation with the austerity measures undertaken, their impact in the public services and in care facilities provisions, etc. ETUC and its affiliates will continue to: ◦explicitly invite, support and train women to participate in collective bargaining committees and negotiating teams, including in EWC’s; ◦invest in training of collective bargaining negotiators, men and women, at all relevant levels in gender equality issues; ◦include gender perspective during negotiations (pay systems and wage increases mechanisms that improve men and women, lifelong learning, leaves facilities). A specific gender approach will be integrated into ETUC migration policies and with regard to decent work for domestic workers. The ETUC will continue to lobby for a EU legislative framework for the protection and non-discrimination of domestic workers. Implementing gender mainstreaming into all ETUC policies

Affiliated organisations will step up their efforts to achieve gender balance in their decision-making level bodies. Gender audits, mentoring programmes, gender-based membership trends, quantified targets and training to support women to take up leadership roles will be promoted. Affiliates will continue to take the need for gender parity into account when nominating representatives in ETUC standing bodies and working groups. ETUC confirms its commitment to achieve a representation of each gender in standing committees that is in line with the proportion of women in the overall membership rate. The ETUC will run the 8th March survey which shows the gender distribution in the decision making structures of the ETUC and its affiliated organisations. Results will be presented to and discussed in the Executive and Women’s Committee. On the basis of the results achieved, further action will be considered to mobilize ETUC affiliates in view of the ETUC Congress Eliminating gender representation gap in decision making bodies

As a start, the ETUC will draft a template for gender disaggregated data collection that can be used by national and EU affiliates and work together with members that do not collect disaggregated data. A study to improve gender equality in trade unions will be produced by the ETUI for the ETUC mid-term conference in 2013 with a view to reach the targets adopted by the Congress. ETUC will provide for specific recommendations to the EC to enhance women’s presence in company boards in view of the EC initiative foreseen in June Eliminating gender representation gap in decision making bodies

ETUC will put forward recommendations to the EU on carers’ leave as a contribution to the EU Year on Active Aging. ETUC will continue to lobby for the revision of the Maternity Directive and engage in constructive dialogue with the EU Council, Commission and Parliament to overcome the current impasse; ETUC will ensure that negotiations on the revision of working time Directive will include provisions to facilitate work-life balance. ETUC will continue to lobby to adopt a paternity leave entitlement at EU level. ETUC will follow the implementation of Directive 2010/18 implementing the EU social partners’ framework agreement on parental leave. An implementation report will be prepared by the ETUI. Promoting the combination of work, family and private life

ETUC affiliates will seek to improve existing legislation on reconciliation via the collective bargaining at different levels: sectorial, national, regional and territorial. Measures should address both male and female workers and include for instance: the promotion of professional breaks, paid parental, paternity and family leave, flexible working time arrangements, company and inter-company kindergartens, etc. ETUC affiliates will continue to promote the exchange of good practices in the area of reconciliation, such as campaign to encourage men to use family- related leaves. They will disseminate information with regards to EU legislation and policies on gender equality at workplace. Adequate visibility of these practices will be given on the ETUC website. ETUC affiliates will also pay attention to the organization of trade union life (meetings, travels, activities) responds to work-life balance needs of both men and women. Promoting the combination of work, family and private life

ETUC will implement a project on good practices aimed at reducing the impact of domestic violence on working people by achieving better workplaces rights that support them to stay safely in their jobs and in their homes. The project will be intended to:  Raising knowledge about domestic violence and why and how it affects workplace;  Share trade unions’ practices to prevent and deal with domestic violence.  Develop strategies of how to handle violence and harassment in the workplace  Adopt recommendations to ETUC affiliates. ETUC will continue to lobby for a legislative framework at European level, on the basis of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. The ETUC affiliates will commit to:  assess the impact and scale of domestic violence abuse in the workplace;  develop model policies with employers to protect and respect the dignity of workers experiencing domestic abuse;  share examples of good practice adopted;  work to lobby national governments to take effective action on domestic abuse. Addressing the link between domestic violence and workplace rights

The ETUC will continue to campaign for stronger EU legislation to close the gender pay gap and promote collective bargaining in this area. The ETUC Women’s Committee and the Committee for the coordination of collective bargaining will work together to tackle the gender pay gap. As a start ETUC member organisations of these two groups will explore together quantitative targets for the reduction of pay inequalities between women and men. The ETUC and its members will contribute to the European Commission’s White Paper on pensions. The link between social and employment policies will be addressed and recommendations to achieve equality between women and men in social security and pensions provisions will be put forward. ETUC and its member organizations will continue to implement the recommendations addressed in the ETUC Resolution “Reducing the gender pay gap”, and in particular: ◦put in place campaigns, tools, etc. in order to raise awareness on the gender pay gap at national level and in the different sectors. The EU day on equal pay could be used as a reference to mobilize members and put in place specific awareness raising activities; ◦put the gender pay gap on the agendas of the collective bargaining; ◦put in place training of negotiators, equal access to vocational training and guidelines to tackle the gender pay gap. Achieving equal pay between women and men

ETUC will implement a EU project to explore trade unions’ successful initiatives and barriers to tackle the gender pay gap. The project will include the following actions:  Compilation of initiatives adopted by ETUC member organisations to achieve equal pay, including revision of job classifications and systems of job evaluation, pay audits, successful collective agreements;  Assess wage penalty linked to part-time working and other forms of precarious employment patterns;  Awareness raising activities (regional workshops and EU Conference);  Publication of a TU manual and brochure. Achieving equal pay between women and men

An ambitious actuion programme that can strongly contribute to achieve more gender equality….. …. With the involvement of all ETUC members at all levels To conclude