An emerging right to care in the EU: a “New Start to Support Work-Life Balance for Parents and Carers”

Torella, Eugenia Caracciolo di

doi:10.1007/s12027-017-0477-0

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“…Moreover, Greenhaus, Bedeian [18] observed a negative relationship between job performance and marital adjustment including work-life balance among females. A recent survey focused primarily in Europe shows that work-life balance prospects are unequal, as well as gender disparities: males seem to be quite happy at work balance than females [19]. Hill, Ferris [8] illustrate that the link among telework and work performance is ambiguous.…”

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In employees’ favour or not?—The impact of virtual office platform on the work-life balances

Rathnaweera

Jayathilaka

2021

PLoS ONE

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Social mobility and physical restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have posed a severe challenge to operate under conventional nine to five work practices in a physical office setting. As a coping strategy for the survival of business, economy, and livelihoods, certain organisations were compelled to transform to virtual office platforms. This was a sudden transformation of work practices and consequently, impacting with mixed outcomes on lifestyles of workers. Given that very limited studies have shed light into the context, this study contributes immensely to fill research gap. The main objective of this study is to identify the impact of the virtual office platform on work-life balance in the Sri Lankan context. The methodology adopted for this study is quantitative. An online questionnaire to collect data was primarily distributed to employees in the virtual platform. Analysis of this study is based on three regression models and results ascertain that both working and non-working environments have highly significant impact on the work-life balance, although non-working environment has a bigger influence on work balance (Gender and no of children). Findings are useful and unique, enabling both employers and employees to adopt a focused approach to maximize the potential of virtual platforms to enhance employee well-being so that mutual benefits can be materialized.

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Section: Work-life Balancementioning

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In employees’ favour or not?—The impact of virtual office platform on the work-life balances

Rathnaweera

Jayathilaka

2021

PLoS ONE

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“…140 Nonetheless, the EU has "been a driving force in this area" and has undoubtedly improved the situation of working parents. 141 This has been evidenced again recently, as the European Commission proposed a Directive on Work Life Balance for Parents and Carers. 142 The proposed Directive aims to build on and modernise the existing framework to "ensure the implementation of the principle of equality between men and women with regard to labour market opportunities and treatment at work."…”

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A Right to Care: Putting Care Ethics at the Heart of UK Reconciliation Legislation

Mitchell¹

2019

Industrial Law Journal

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This article will examine how a right to care could be applied in the UK to better support people’s ability to balance their paid work and caring responsibilities. I will argue that this would inject the ethic of care into the body of work–life balance legislation to better value caring relationships and carers. This is important because paid work is currently prioritised in this body of legislation. I will argue that better valuing caring labour is key to achieving transformative changes in both the workplace and the division of caring labour.

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“…The sovereign debt crisis, increased global competition and the EU’s existential crisis evident in the United Kingdom’s decision in June 2016 to ‘Brexit’ have destabilized the Union and, in times of economic difficulty, social initiatives have historically been marginalized (Busby, 2011). That the Commission has brought forward its ‘ground breaking’ proposal (Caracciolo di Torella, 2017, p. 196) at this particular moment shows both boldness and a commitment to engender change, but its survival and transposition into meaningful legislation is far from assured.…”

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The evolution of gender equality and related employment policies

Busby

2018

International Journal of Discrimination and the Law

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EU law and policy on work-family reconciliation has developed by way of two parallel but often incoherent movements. The jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the EU has been a driving force in its interpretation of sex discrimination provisions in the context of claims concerning women's labour market experiences which have subsequently been codified, for example, to provide positive rights in relation to pregnancy and maternity. Alongside this development, policy has been linked to wider economic concerns such as the goal of full employment leading to specific measures intended to equalise employment conditions for those with non-standard working arrangements and to encourage shared parenting between men and women. The lack of a specific focus on work-family reconciliation as a goal for law and policy in its own right has resulted in a patchwork of provisions rather than an overarching framework. The net result is that EU law provides an unsatisfactory response to what has been termed the unsolved conflict between paid work and unpaid care. Recent developments may provide a solution. The Commission has reinvigorated its interest through its 'New Start' initiative-a package of both legislative and non-legislative measures under the auspices of the European Pillar of Social Rights launched in April 2017. Provisions incorporate, inter alia, a proposed directive which would amend the parental leave regime and introduce paid paternity and carers' leave. This article provides a critique of law and policy to date and assesses the potential for a coordinated EU strategy for work-family reconciliation, focusing specifically on gender 2 equality. It is argued that, even with the enhanced interest of the Commission, it may be difficult to achieve a coordinated approach to what has always been a contentious policy area within a rapidly changing EU although the UK's departure from the EU may provide an opportunity in this respect.

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An emerging right to care in the EU: a “New Start to Support Work-Life Balance for Parents and Carers”

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

In employees’ favour or not?—The impact of virtual office platform on the work-life balances

In employees’ favour or not?—The impact of virtual office platform on the work-life balances

A Right to Care: Putting Care Ethics at the Heart of UK Reconciliation Legislation

The evolution of gender equality and related employment policies

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