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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 | ||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 2016 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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