work sharing plan [ work sharing scheme ]

job sharing | job-share | time sharing

job sharing

work sharing [ worksharing ]

employee who become full-time

· Continue modernising labour markets by simplifying employment legislation and developing flexible working arrangements, including short-time working arrangements.[71]

Working life is also becoming more complex as working patterns become more irregular and a number of transitions need to be accounted for, including between jobs, between different working status, and between work and training, career breaks and care periods.

whereas digitalisation has an enormous impact on the labour market by changing value chains and creating new job opportunities and more flexible working patterns; whereas opportunities for flexible and teleworking work arrangements brought about by digitalisation may serve as an important tool for ensuring a better work-life balance for both women and men; whereas these flexible working arrangements can play a positive role in contributing to the inclusion in the labour market of disadvantaged groups of women; whereas, however, there are possible negative consequences which can particularly affect women, such as the erosion of workers ...[+++]’ rights and working time boundaries and of boundaries relating to professional and non-professional responsibilities, which increases low-paid and less secure types of employment.

18. Emphasises the fact that increased flexibility in working arrangements can increase women’s opportunities to participate actively in the labour market, but notes, at the same time, that this flexibility can have a negative impact on women’s wages and pensions; points, therefore, to the need for specific work-life balance proposals, and encourages men and women to share occupational, family, and social responsibilities more evenly, especially in cases where assistance to dependants and childcare are concerned;