From 6 April, 2007 carers will join parents of children under six (or disabled children under 18) in acquiring the right to request to work flexibly. This means their employer has to take their request seriously and follow a laid down procedure and timescale. Flexible working can include
Greece announced that it would take part in a program that aims to tackle illegal immigration by offering jobs to migrants on short-term contracts and providing them with greater financial rewards if they return to their homelands.
Mehr als 50 Vertreter von Migrantenorganisationen und eine Staatsministerin – ein solches Gespräch ist für Maria Böhmer, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Migration, nicht alltäglich. Umso intensiver gestaltete sich nach Medienberichten der dreistündige Dialog zwischen Böhmer und den Migran-ten-Vertretern.
Eine Zeitlang war es erstaunlich ruhig und sachlich in Deutschland um das Thema “Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie“ bestellt: wir wollen (und müssen) insbesondere hochqualifizierte und mo-tivierte Frauen und Männer in technischen Berufen halten, diese sollen – schon aus betriebs- und volkswirtschaftlichen Gründen – ihren Beruf und ihr Privatleben vereinbaren können.
The composition of the recently elected Austrian government shows the country’s efforts towards equal treatment of men and women. Eight of the twenty top positions in the Austrian government are filled by women – this means an average of 40 percent of ministresses and state secretaries. Additionally,
Following new government plans, asylum seekers and refugees or low earners from ethnic minority backgrounds will have to pay for English language lessons in the United Kingdom – an offer that was free of charge up to now for integrative reasons.
In his recent „Global Report on Aging“, Finnish researcher Kimmo Leppo found out that, due to its fertility history and recent increases in longevity, the Finnish population is aging more rapidly than most populations in Europe. The proportion of people over 65 will increase from 16 to 27 percent in 2030.
Franz Müntefering hatte zu Jahresbeginn reichlich Grund zur Freude: die Homepage seines Bundesarbeitsministeriums erreichte beim Selbsttest auf Grundlage der BIT(Barrierefreie Informationstechnik)-Verordnung ein Traumergebnis von 96 aus 100 möglichen Punkten.
More than 180 countries around the world issue paper banknotes. Nearly all of them use specifications such as different sizes, different positions of a metallic strip or intaglio printing in order to make it easier for disabled people to distinguish between the different denomination. Yet, there is one country that doesn’t give disabled people the […]
The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) has presented its Annual Report 2006. The report looked at racial discrimination and racist crime data and found out that migrants and ethnic minorities remain discriminated against across the EU in employment, education and housing. However,
