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Implementation (Principle 2)
Description
a) What Member States and Social Partners can do
Member States are in charge of transposing and enforcing rules adopted at Union level. Given that the Union measures merely contain minimum standards, Member States are invited to go beyond these rules in order to give effect to the Principle.
At Union level, social partners are to be consulted in accordance with Article 154 TFEU on possible initiatives based on Article 153 TFEU and may sign agreements that can be implemented at Union level at their request in accordance with Article 155 TFEU. Social partners may also collect and exchange good practices across the Union. At national level, social partners may support the implementation of this Principle via collective bargaining and through their involvement in the design and implementation of relevant policies.
The EU social partners at cross-industry level selected gender equality as a priority for their current work programme 2015-2017, organising exchanges of national and sectoral social partner practices on ways to reduce the gender pay gap.
b) Recent and ongoing initiatives at EU level
The Commission will implement the Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019,(19) which sets out the main priorities in this area, and outlines the use of existing tools such as the European Semester, the Union Funds and enforcement of legislation.
The Commission is presenting together with the European Pillar of Social Rights the "New start to support Work-Life Balance for parents and carers" initiative. It proposes legislative and policy actions aiming to facilitate the uptake of parental leave by both women and men, to introduce the paternity leave and the carers' leave, to promote the use of flexible working arrangements, as well as to provide more and better child and other care facilities and remove economic disincentives such as tax-benefit disincentives, which discourage second-earners, often women, from entering the labour market.
The Commission will adopt a follow up Report on progress made by Member States in the implementation of the Transparency Recommendation which will assess the potential need for additional measures in order to ensure the full application of the principle of equal pay.
Furthermore, it has proposed a Directive aimed at further ensuring greater equality among management positions in the corporate sphere.(20)
The Commission is stepping up its efforts to combat violence against women and is working towards the EU's accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (the Istanbul Convention) on the basis of its proposal made in March 2016.(21)
The European Institute for Gender Equality, one of the EU's decentralised agencies, is supporting the work of the Commission, Member States and social partners in the area of work-life balance.
Member States are in charge of transposing and enforcing rules adopted at Union level. Given that the Union measures merely contain minimum standards, Member States are invited to go beyond these rules in order to give effect to the Principle.
At Union level, social partners are to be consulted in accordance with Article 154 TFEU on possible initiatives based on Article 153 TFEU and may sign agreements that can be implemented at Union level at their request in accordance with Article 155 TFEU. Social partners may also collect and exchange good practices across the Union. At national level, social partners may support the implementation of this Principle via collective bargaining and through their involvement in the design and implementation of relevant policies.
The EU social partners at cross-industry level selected gender equality as a priority for their current work programme 2015-2017, organising exchanges of national and sectoral social partner practices on ways to reduce the gender pay gap.
b) Recent and ongoing initiatives at EU level
The Commission will implement the Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019,(19) which sets out the main priorities in this area, and outlines the use of existing tools such as the European Semester, the Union Funds and enforcement of legislation.
The Commission is presenting together with the European Pillar of Social Rights the "New start to support Work-Life Balance for parents and carers" initiative. It proposes legislative and policy actions aiming to facilitate the uptake of parental leave by both women and men, to introduce the paternity leave and the carers' leave, to promote the use of flexible working arrangements, as well as to provide more and better child and other care facilities and remove economic disincentives such as tax-benefit disincentives, which discourage second-earners, often women, from entering the labour market.
The Commission will adopt a follow up Report on progress made by Member States in the implementation of the Transparency Recommendation which will assess the potential need for additional measures in order to ensure the full application of the principle of equal pay.
Furthermore, it has proposed a Directive aimed at further ensuring greater equality among management positions in the corporate sphere.(20)
The Commission is stepping up its efforts to combat violence against women and is working towards the EU's accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (the Istanbul Convention) on the basis of its proposal made in March 2016.(21)
The European Institute for Gender Equality, one of the EU's decentralised agencies, is supporting the work of the Commission, Member States and social partners in the area of work-life balance.
Importance
High
Additional information
(19) SWD (2015)278.
(20) COM(2012) 614.
(21) COM(2016) 111 final.
(20) COM(2012) 614.
(21) COM(2016) 111 final.