The #IwantWorkLifeBalance campaign was launched in 2017 to shore up citizen support for the EU Work Life Balance Directive as a first channel to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights and make a real contribution to achieving more gender equality in Europe....
The #IwantWorkLifeBalance campaign was launched in 2017 to shore up citizen support for the EU Work Life Balance Directive as a first channel to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights and make a real contribution to achieving more gender equality in Europe....
The European Commission has launched a first-stage consultation with European social partners on possible new EU action to help people who face significant barriers to entering or returning to the labour market. The initiative, announced as part of the Commission’s...
COFACE Families Europe has contributed to the Call for Evidence on the Quality Jobs Act. This initiative, announced in the 2025 State of the Union and the 2026 Commission Work Programme, aims to address new realities for workers in the modern economy. Working...
COFACE member organisation Fundacja Share the Care in Poland has published a new report examining developments in parental equality three years after the transposition of the EU Work-Life Balance Directive.
The second wave of the European Institute for Gender Equality CARE Survey offers one of the most comprehensive pictures to date of how unpaid care responsibilities continue to shape everyday life across the European Union.
The European Care Strategy is a policy framework launched by the European Commission in September 2022 to strengthen care systems and improve both care services and care conditions across the European Union. Read more here.
With 120+ participants from 27 countries (including our COFACE penguins who joined us given the big focus on parental equality), we had rich discussions focusing on challenges persisting for families of today across Europe and beyond, we discussed public policy solutions as well as good practices in the workplace.
