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16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

 

Company initiatives for workers with care responsibilities for disabled children or adults [4 November 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1147.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/47/en/1/EF1147EN.pdf

[full-text, 100 pages]

 

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef11478.htm

or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/478/en/1/EF11478EN.pdf

[full-text, 64 pages'

 

Executive Summary
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef11471.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/471/en/2/EF11471EN.pdf

 

 

Author:            Cullen, Kevin; Gareis, Karsten

 

Summary:       

This report describes over 50 cases of companies in 11 Member States that have adopted measures to support their employees with care responsibilities for disabled children or adults. Key initiatives by companies include: various types of leave; reduced working hours; and such supportive measures as information, counselling and practical support. The report concludes that: raising awareness is particularly important; that particularly effective approaches combine measures targeted at working carers, and measures that the entire workforce can avail of; that line managers have a pivotal role to play in supporting working carers; and that it is possible to create solutions that either avoid the need for employees to leave the job, or that enable them to return to work. An annotated bibliography and an executive summary are also available.

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