Description du projet
Lutter contre la discrimination et améliorer les conditions de travail dans le secteur des soins
Afin de mettre au point des outils appropriés pour améliorer la qualité de l’emploi et lutter contre les discriminations, le projet CARE4CARE financé par l’UE étudiera, d’un point de vue comparatif et multidisciplinaire, les conditions de travail du personnel soignant dans six États membres (France, Allemagne, Italie, Pologne, Espagne et Suède). Le projet vise à créer un modèle d’analyse et de réglementation susceptible d’être reproduit dans d’autres pays de l’Union et de faire émerger de nouvelles stratégies pertinentes pour les institutions européennes. En outre, il entend donner au personnel soignant et à ses représentants les moyens de participer à l’élaboration et à la mise en œuvre des politiques qui les concernent. Le projet comprend le développement d’une plateforme web qui fournira des informations accessibles sur les conditions de travail du personnel soignant.
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Care workers are mainly women and migrants, which makes the care sector an interesting field to verify the dynamics of segregation and exclusion that affect the labour market. At the same time, it is a challenging testing ground, which allows to design and verify new measures to contrast discrimination and promote social inclusion.
EU institutions have included the care work sector among those sectors “key to the future of European society and economy”. The Covid-19 pandemic has made even more clear the centrality of care work in modern societies but it also made more visible many critical issues affecting the working conditions of care workers, such as: the lack of adequate economic resources, the workforce shortage, the pressure put on care workers, the risks for their well-being, the underfinancing of social care as a consequence of the reorganisation and partial retrenchment of the welfare state, the weaker bargaining power in the sector than in male-dominated sectors, the undervaluation of female-dominated jobs, the prevalence of undeclared work in domestic care work, patterns of discrimination in the sector on grounds of gender and nationality and the intersectionality between the two.
This project proposal aims to investigate in a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective the working conditions of care workers and their perception of their working environment and dynamics and to develop suitable tools to improve job quality and contrast discrimination, such as: elaborating policy strategies to tackle the undervaluation of care work, with particular attention to the key role that trade unions, employers’ associations as well as equality and monitoring bodies can play; designing training programmes to empower trade unions and family associations and employers reps to improve job quality in the sector; setting up of a permanent observatory on care work, which will implement a platform accessible to care workers, in order to improve their rights’ awareness.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
50121 Florence
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