Vertaling van "flexible working hours " (Engels → Nederlands) :

11. Draws attention to the increasing prevalence of flexible working hours: weekend work, irregular and unpredictable working hours and the extension of the working day, and to the fact that, given that the demand for flexibility is greatest amongst part-time workers, who are mostly women, this means that more women than men have their working hours changed from week to week, making it even harder for women to strike a balance between work and family life, especially single mothers and those caring for dependent family members; stresses that work contracts should be stable and working hours scheduled, but that working hours may be negot ...[+++]iated upon the employee’s request in order better to reconcile professional, family and private life; emphasises that flexible working hours should be the worker’s decision, and should not be imposed or enforced by the employer; rejects situations of flexibility and contractual uncertainty that do not allow for family formation and stability;

In recent years, flexible working hours have become the norm in the service sector: weekend work, more irregular working hours and adding to them.

When, in spite of the law, a person works 12 hours a day and more, neither flexible working hours nor longer opening hours in the sales and services sector can help.

Promote and increase flexibility combined with employment security and reduce labour market segmentation, and promote good industrial relations on the basis of independent and representative trade unions and improved information and consultation of workers through: the adaptation and streamlining of employment legislation, reviewing where necessary the level of flexibility and security provided by permanent and non-permanent contracts; better anticipation and positive management of change, including economic restructuring, notably changes linked to trade opening, so as to minimise their social costs and facilitate adaptation to new realities ; support for transitions in occupational status, including training, self-employment, business cr ...[+++]eation and geographic mobility; the promotion and dissemination of innovative and adaptable forms of work organisation; effective measures to reduce workplace accidents by means of improved prevention of workplace risks, especially through agreements at European level , and by diversity of contractual arrangements together with flexible working hours , with a view to improving quality of employment, productivity at work and the reconciliation of family life and work , adaptation to new technologies in the workplace, determined action to transform unauthorised work into regular employment and combat the grey economy (Integrated guideline No 20).

Particular attention should be paid, inter alia, to flexible working hours, part-time working, tele-working and sabbatical leave, as well as to the necessary financial and administrative provisions governing such arrangements.

(b) the quality of work, as determined by such factors as flexible working hours, training opportunities, job security, adequate social protection coverage.