EFSI welcomes the publication of the European Reconciliation Package
After a couple of years of an intense awareness raising campaign on the issue of work-life balance, COFACE has published a policy package showing the way forward. Read more...
Latest trends in PHS development
In the past weeks, the latest figures on the personal and household services sector have been published in France and Sweden.Read more...
New European project on PHS
In the framework of the IMPact project, about 25 experts gathered in Brussels on 23 January to discuss the employment and budgetary effects of PHS supporting measures and how these effects should be monitored. Read more...
European Commission’s 2015 work plan: forgetting PHS’s potential
On 16th December 2014, the European Commission adopted its 2015 work programme, a list of concrete actions for the year to come. On this occasion, Jean-Claude Juncker presented the main points of this programme to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Read more...
6th European conference on personal and household services: work-life balance at the centre of the debates
On 7th November 2014, the 6th edition of the European conference on personal and household services gathered about one hundred participants in Brussels to discuss the contributions of Personal and Household Services (PHS) and work-life balance (WLB) policies to our societies.Read more...
EESC adopts opinion on services to the family
On 16 October, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted an own initiative opinion entitled “Developing services to the family to foster employment and promote gender equality between men and women at work”. Read more...
New publication: Memorandum to the new EU leaders
On September 30th, EFSI published a memorandum entitled “10 Recommendations to the new EU leaders for the next five years” directly addressed to the newly-elected members of European Parliament and designated Commissioners. Read more...