Transcript Lebrun - Europa

WORK-LIFE BALANCE
PERSONAL AND HOUSHOLD SERVICES
La Rioja, 24 March 2014
Jean-François LEBRUN
European Commission, DG EMPL
The women are the future of growth
Women are more educated than men (55% in tertiary education)
But there are only 26% of employers.
Imagine that this rate reaches 50% so 4 million new enterprises
and that 5 workers by enterprise therefore 20 million new jobs.
Gain in terms of growth over 780 billion to € or 6% of GDP.
45% of women admit a problem of work-life balance.
To increase this rate and thus foster our growth, we must
improve the work-life balance
To improve the work-life balance, one of the tracks is the PHS.
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PHS: An ICEBERG of
120 millions FTP (full
time equivalent).
Each adult works 3
hours at home
(OECD)
Social objective
More needs tomorrow
More reconciliation needs
Female employment rate
+ 80
More dependency needs
Employment objective
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More social services
Quasi-market
Allocations to stay at home
LETS
Voluntary services
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PHS: A rational choice and a need for public interventions
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With a public support close to the tax wedge (40-50%), the intervention is
neutral for public finance (following several studies)
But who pay ? who receive the returns ?
PHS – A NEED OF ACTIONS
OBJECTIVES – Opportunities in 3 domains
Social - Existing and future needs
Needs linked to the demographic evolution (ageing population and more active women)
Childcare, long term care, care for dependant people and non-care activities
Access, universality versus selectivity, quality
Employment – Creation of new jobs (5 million in EU 28)
Job creation
Fight against undeclared work
Characteristics of these activities: highest job content, local (or low import content),…
Economic – A new sector
Development of a new "sector" by the externalisation of several activities made at home
Specialisation, economy of scale, technical progress
FIVE STEPS APPROACH
1.Identification of needs
2.Certification of providers
3.Co-financing by the user
4.Evaluation
5.Support activities
1. Identification of needs
Public opinion survey
Stakeholders audition
+ Analysis of current supply
(including undeclared economy & price on the "black market")
→ list of activities and their prices
Activities made at home
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CARE (without health dimension)
Child
Elderly
Disabled
Dependent
NON-CARE
Cleaning
Ironing
Gardening
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Eurobarometer
2. Certification (or license) of providers
Based on quality requirements, skills requirements,…
Competition between the providers
(public services, social economy or private companies)
No public procurements
Requirements in terms of professionalization, vocational training, social dialogue,…
Quality of services
Skills (social, communication and technical)
Commitment (empathy,…)
Segmentation (several providers)
Quality of work
Working conditions (working hours, wages, transport,…)
Training
Public authorities can fix requirements, conditions,…
to the service providers
PHS: WORKING CONDITIONS ?
• Low wages
• Low productivity
• Budget constraints
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Working time
Job security
Physical risks
Psychological risks
Transport
• Recruitement
• Retention
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Training
New technologies
Quality control
Social dialogue
ILO Convention
Cultural Change /
communication
3. Co-financing by the user
The user (beneficiary or customer) must pay part of the cost (0 to 100%)
Fiscal deductibility or direct support (voucher)
A grid of financial support in function of criteria (income, dependency, age,)
The "public" financial support is "carried" by the user, the demand side
Simple procedures
HIGH PUBLIC EXPENSES
BUT THERE ARE IMPORTANT RETURN EFFECTS
- Job creation (taxation, social security contributions,…)
- Better balancing family life and work (productivity)
Earn-back effects
1st order earn-back effects
2nd order earn-back effects
- Social security
contributions
- Additional personal taxes
- Reduction in
unemployment benefits
- Additional job creation
(manager, assistant,…)
- Corporate taxes
- Less stress, less
absenteeism,…
- More working hours/job
returns
- Cost of alternative
solutions
(institutionalisation,…)
WHY? IN LINE WITH THE CARACTERISTICS OF THESE ACTIVITIES:
- High employment content between 0,95 and 1,00
- Low-medium skills
- Existence of undeclared work
- Low productivity
- Few or absence of formal job without public interventions
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Public autorities can
determine their
financial supports
on the basis of
several criteria and
policy objectives.
The only limit is the
black market price.
4. Evaluation
Analysis of the needs satisfaction (opinion surveys,…)
Analysis of the employment and financial returns
Evaluation of quality and working conditions
Rating by the users (online plateform,…)
Analysis of databases
Opinion surveys
On-line rating
(users, employees)
(for the users & for the quality)
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Possibility to review the system
But caution to the need to have a stable environment
5. Support activities
Communication campaign
R&D
Others co-financing organisations
(enterprises (work life balance, CSR,…),
insurance, charities,…)
Yesterday:
Washing machine, dishwasher,…
Today:
Automatic vacuum cleaner and lawnmower,..
Monitoring devices for elderly
Tomorrow:
eLearning
Intelligent monitoring devices
Tailor made solutions
Other robots
+ Management and administration
+ Infrastructure (domotics, house adapted,…)
+ R&D
New technology + Technical skills
Productivity
Thank you for your attention
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