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Reshaping EU working-time regulation : towards a more sustainable regime

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Zbyszewska, Ania (2016) Reshaping EU working-time regulation : towards a more sustainable regime. European Labour Law Journal, 2016 (3).

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Abstract

The European Commission’s 2015 Roadmap on work-life balance cites a comprehensive policy and regulatory approach as essential to addressing the interrelated goals of reconciling work and family, the sharing of care work between women and men, and attaining substantive gender equality. However, the EU’s key instrument setting ‘normal’ hours of work standards, the Working Time Directive, is absent from the measures identified as central to such a comprehensive approach. Attributing this omission in part to the Directive’s historic evolution, its controversial and unsettled status, and its apparent gender ‘neutrality’, this article argues that work-life balance strategies must incorporate standard working-time considerations if they are to be effective; likewise, a more meaningful engagement with and the advancement of workfamily reconciliation and equality goals is crucial for the Working Time Directive’s continued relevance. Failing such a more obvious articulation between the two sets of policies, a number of goals currently on the EU agenda will be difficult to attain, as supporting caregivers and redistributing unpaid work between women and men, but also objectives of active aging and Europe’s long-term social sustainability, require the development of more sustainable work models and working-time practices.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Hours of labor -- European Union countries , Work-life balance -- European Union countries , Gender mainstreaming -- European Union countries , Law reform -- European Union countries
Journal or Publication Title: European Labour Law Journal
Publisher: Intersentia
Official Date: 1 October 2016
Dates:
DateEvent
1 October 2016Published
19 September 2016Accepted
Volume: 2016
Number: 3
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Date of first compliant deposit: 20 September 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 1 September 2017

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