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Balancing working and personal life: new challenges
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Type of text :
Opinion
Type of referral :
Government referral
Working group :
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION
Date d'adoption
Date adopted : 04/23/2024
Mandature
2021-2026
Rapporteur(s) :
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Christelle CAILLET
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Elisabeth TOME-GERTHEINRICHS
Overview
Présentation
In France, 64% of employees do not work a standard five-day working week: atypical working hours, part-time
work, on-call duty, etc. There are many different situations.
In the face of changes in the way people relate to work and in their living conditions, the search for a balance between
working and personal life is at the heart of employees' new expectations. Three sets of factors are now shaping this work/life balance:
• changes in the workplace,
• changes in living conditions that complicate the way people
• certain life situations (single-parent families, carers, people with disabilities).
In the light of these observations, the ESEC has chosen to talk about the “balance of life times”: personal and
working lives are interlinked because they cannot be lived independently of each other.