Reconciling Work and Family Life in EU Law and Policy

Torella, Eugenia Caracciolo di; Masselot, Annick

doi:10.1057/9780230246683

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“…practical and visible work-family measures. Furthermore, it would seem that in some cases, new flexible working arrangements were considered fruitful in meeting other challenges than employees' work-family balance, such as firms' need to react to a fast-changing market (Caracciolo di Torella and Masselot, 2010). The development projects thus shared no common agenda but promoted a variety of family-friendly measures and viewpoints in different organizations.…”

Section: Promotion Of Work and Family Reconciliation Through Project mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Its directives on pregnant workers, maternity and parental leave, and general gender equality directives (such as the Recast Directive), combined with the case law of the European Court of Justice, represent its hard law methods that need to be transposed to national legislation. The focus in its hard law has been on leave provisions and mothers, and flexible working arrangements including parttime and telework (Caracciolo di Torella and Masselot, 2010). At the same time, care provisions have been left behind, partly due to limited EU competencies in the field as well as big national differences in member states.…”

Section: The Case: Reconciling Work and Family In The Eu And Finlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Europeanization of Nordic Gender Equality: A Foucauldian Analysis of Reconciling Work and Family in Finland

Eräranta¹,

Kantola

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article, we analyse the case of reconciling work and family as a particularly illuminative example of the effects of soft Europeanization. We focus on one particular policy instrument of the EU, namely projects co‐funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), which have sought to develop family‐friendly arrangements in Finnish workplaces. Our analysis suggests that this soft law instrument can result in significant changes in member states, even in cases where the member state's own policy is well entrenched. Theoretically, our contribution is to connect soft Europeanization to the Foucauldian theory on power, and the literature on Analytics of Government specifically. From this perspective we argue that the ESF development projects function as Foucauldian ‘technologies of involvement’. We find that by stabilizing and normalizing project techniques and managerial rationalities untypical for previous gender equality and work–family policies in the country, the ESF projects in our case partly challenge some established principles of Nordic welfare policies, such as universalism and state responsibility for welfare measures. Moreover, as ESF projects have managed to involve mainly female‐dominated organizations and women as participants, we pose the question whether this kind of soft‐law instrument that trusts the self‐regulation capacities of actors can bring about change in gendered conventions.

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Section: Promotion Of Work and Family Reconciliation Through Project mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Case: Reconciling Work and Family In The Eu And Finlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Europeanization of Nordic Gender Equality: A Foucauldian Analysis of Reconciling Work and Family in Finland

Eräranta¹,

Kantola

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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“…4 On the other hand, men cannot always avail themselves of their parental rights. 5 Ultimately, children are affected. 6 Furthermore, caring responsibilities outside childcare are still barely mentioned.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2 In particular Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast) [2006] 4 Masselot/Caracciolo di Torell/Burri [14]. 5 See for example Case C-5/12 Betriu Montull, EU:C:2013:571. More generally see Fredman [12]; Caracciolo di Torella [5,6]; Caracciolo di Torella [7]; Burri [1].…”

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An emerging right to care in the EU: a “New Start to Support Work-Life Balance for Parents and Carers”

Torella

2017

ERA Forum

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Reconciliation between work and family life has been a prominent feature of EU discourse, policy and legislation for some time now. Accordingly, an increasingly sophisticated array of measures has been implemented. This article focuses on the most recent EU initiative, namely the New Start to Support Work-Life Balance for Parents and Carers, which was announced on 26 April 2017. It entails a mixture of legislative and non-legislative measures aimed at modernising the regulation of this area. This article maintains that the New Start Initiative, although not flawless, is ground-breaking. In this proposal, the Commission is embracing a substantive and transformative approach to equality. The New Start Initiative has the potential to reconceptualise this area and to move from care as a mother-child issue to a wider one that sees care as an integral part of society.

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The Unintended Consequences of Brexit: The Case of Work-Life Balance

Torella

2019

Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit

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Reconciling Work and Family Life in EU Law and Policy

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

The Europeanization of Nordic Gender Equality: A Foucauldian Analysis of Reconciling Work and Family in Finland

The Europeanization of Nordic Gender Equality: A Foucauldian Analysis of Reconciling Work and Family in Finland

An emerging right to care in the EU: a “New Start to Support Work-Life Balance for Parents and Carers”

The Unintended Consequences of Brexit: The Case of Work-Life Balance

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