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05-03-2015

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...

18-02-2015

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...

03-02-2015

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...

19-12-2014

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...

17-11-2014

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...

24-10-2014

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...

30-09-2014

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...