Exploiting the employment potential of the personal and household services

Employment and Social Affairs

National, regional and local authorities, trade unions, employers' organisations, NGOs, academics and other stakeholders or individual citizens with an interest in personal and household services

The Staff working document on personal and household services aims to have views of all stakeholders to comment on possible actions to address the issue of promoting new jobs in the personal and household services sectors and in particular:

• Ways to improve measurement and monitoring of the employment levels in PHS, taking into account the impact of the on-going crisis, loss of purchasing power, labour market exclusion issues and the potentially positive effect on the creation or growth of SMEs;
• The utility of developing sharing of experiences, especially concerning the tools used or planned to support the PHS with a specific attention to the cost effectiveness and to the reduction of undeclared work;
• Ways of ensuring quality services and jobs (skill needs, working conditions), including possibly through development quality standards;
• Other ways to ensure greater professionalization of PHS jobs.

All stakeholders are invited to submit their contributions to the questions raised in the personal and household services by 15 July 2012.

Replies can be sent:

• by e-mail to the following address: empl-household-services@ec.europa.eu
• by post to:
  European Commission
  Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion
  SWD on personal and household services
  Unit C2
  Rue Joseph II, 27
  Office 06/044
  B-1000 Brussels
• or submitted online

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