Group Balkans We Campaign jointly with education ministry Work to set up institutional frame Paid maternity leave Empowerment women ITUC-PERC More exchange and discussions

Group EU We Need TU policies - every confederation should have youth and women committee to initiate these policies Involving youngsters in decision making structures Internet – to put the result of work, information, also including professional orientation Secondary school – we need to speak with them. About their education, about labour ITUC-PERC: Trainings on subjects Sustaininng cooperation of youth and women committees Better image of unions – seminar Database on youth coordinators Exchange practices Activity on organising?

Group Eastern Europe We: Our website on vacancies Image of working youth – popularisation Professional orientation in educational institutions This can be done by respective branch unions Coordinating councils – on professions needed Child birth benefits, Leave for childcare Childfeeding rooms ITUC-PERC: Systematisation, library, in easy language Training of trainers – so that they can work Internet materials of work-life balance – raising awareness Supporting local organisations

Points to elaborate upon – for the PERC Youth and Women Committee Employers do not invest in shaping the vocational training system. We can initiate discussions through social dialog No cohesion of policy between different state institutions – education, labour, employment. Social partners rarely involved. We can initiate discussions, bringing this to agenda of social partners. This should be part of social dialog Educational structures do not have information about labour market situation Push for including labour issues in training programmes, through social dialog We can bring this information to educational institutions ourselves Vocational choices are made by stereotypes, young people can not make them. Therefore high gender segregation. Concentration of women in low paid jobs Raise awareness of members and students Addressing gender stereotypes via formal and non-formal education system.

Schools and vocational institutions curriculums lag behind the reality Trade union research on skills prognosys Push for discussing this Poor quality of education, insufficient skills Promotion of quality internships within education and training and/or employment schemes; Professional skills as part of education Low prestige of “blue collar” qualified jobs Work to raise attractiveness of vocational education and training Wage bargaining! Phenomenon “Early school leavers” Raise awareness, role of teachers Lost generation – no workplace creation. Austerity – public sector cuts – will hinder chances of youth Mobilise and putting youth in front` Push for active labour market policies Precarious work makes for a precarious recovery - fight against greater flexibility in the labour markets as result of the crisis; ´flexibility ´ becoming ´flexploitation´

First working place, Probations / internships / stage – instrument to get skills, but used to exploit by employers Monitor! Enforce! Adequate level of social protection, health and safety for young people at the workplace Withdrawals – need to do more on requalification, retraining... Young women – good chances for organising success! Because there are special issues to bargain /to get enforced Push for ensuring young women`s access to work in Active labour market policies and programmes which can greatly facilitate young people`s entry and re-entry into the labour market. Information campaigns for acquainting young women (even those attending school) with their rights and the measures taken for protecting motherhood and ensuring safe labour conditions for pregnant women, nursing and young mothers, provided for in the labour laws at national level. Work - life balance Push for provision of adequate child care facilities Collective agreements! Ratification of the ILO Convention 183 on maternity protection and campaigning for its implementation in the countries that ratified it Protection against discrimination in employment provisions in collective agreements on equal pay for equal jobs