Union LANV aims to enable parents to take care of their children themselves in the first year of life through targeted measures. According to a position paper of the union, the framework conditions for the compatibility of family and work are still inadequate to a considerable extent. The union asks for the implementation of an EU directive that aims to counter the underrepresentation of women in professional life and to support their career development through improved conditions for the reconciliation of work and private life.
Read on: in German.. Read on the position paper: in German.
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