{"id":1252,"date":"2019-04-09T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.effe-homecare.eu\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2020-03-03T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:40:32","slug":"professionalization-of-home-employment-jobs-from-the-european-commissions-recommendations-to-the-european-white-papers-propositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effe-homecare.eu\/en\/professionalization-of-home-employment-jobs-from-the-european-commissions-recommendations-to-the-european-white-papers-propositions\/","title":{"rendered":"ENSURE PROFESSIONALIZATION TO GUARANTEE QUALITY JOBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In its White Paper, EFFE links the European Commission\u2019s proposals for digital skills and jobs to the needs of home employment sector in Europe. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 10 June 2016, the European Commission published a series of 10 actions setting out its new skills strategy for Europe. The overall purpose is to ensure a better recognition of professional skills, more specifically for the least qualified workers or working in sectors requiring less qualification. One of the measures advocated by the European institution is the creation of a “EU Skills Profile Tool for Third Country Nationals<\/em>\u201d. The latter would substantially help identify the skills set of asylum seekers on European soil in order to grant them a full and long-term integration into the labor market and, more broadly, into society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program for the development\nof digital skills and jobs for European workers, an essential asset to\ndeveloping online domestic jobs declarative procedures, is another proposal of\nthe European Commission that a majority of Member States is currently striving\nto enforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European White Paper drawn up by EFFE between 2017 and 2019 connects on\nseveral aspects with the European Commission’s strategy considering the\nproposals made on the need to establish new prospects for professionalization\nand certification of home employees’ skills. Home employment sector is largely\ncomposed of low-skilled workers, and the increasing demand for a guarantee of\nquality of services by employer households requires that adequate measures be\ntaken to increase the possibilities to provide these workers an adequate\ntraining to the tasks they ought to be asked to carry out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether talking about education and early childhood care, caring for the\nelderly or disabled, but also about daily domestic tasks – sometimes requiring\nhandling of toxic products or to carry out repetitive, physical and potentially\nharmful tasks, home employment thus proves it is a demanding employment sector,\nyet suffering from low possibilities of training as well as a lack of overall professional\nrecognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professionalization of home employees is therefore essential to guarantee their\nspecialization as much as an undeniable means to increase their productivity\nand employability. A step towards higher quality of service and greater\nsecurity when carrying out the service, it is a determining factor of HR and\ntechnological sector-based progress and furthermore provides an interesting\nresponse to poverty, risk of unemployment and social exclusion, and shall be\nable to participate in the professional and social integration of immigrant\npopulations as these are making up the majority of domestic workers in the\nEuropean Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a very large amount of these workers, professionalization is also a\nprivileged tool to grant them recognition and a professional status – thus\nenabling them to get out of undeclared work and informal economy. Lastly, it\nwill be an outstanding means to train people to a whole range of skills that\nmostly suffer nowadays from overall social neglect and that are yet essential\nto ensure a quality relationship between home employer and their employee e.g.\nuse of digital technologies, increase of relational skills and the needs\nexpressed by the household employer, development of \u201cgreen\u201d and OSH\n(Occupational safety and health) compatible skills.            <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A question we are now likely to ask is how to fund professionalization. Facilitating\ndeclarative procedures for domestic jobs will eventually lead to the financing of\ntheir professionalization through social security contributions and will\nconsequently allow the production of skills more widely recognized by\nemployers, helping these jobs to reach out from informal economy. This virtuous\ncircle is precisely what Member States must put on emphasis on so as to enforce\nthem in their national legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why EFFE, thanks to its European White Paper, seeks to raise\nawareness and interest over the skills\u2019 potential of domestic workers. To this\nrespect, it lists the following propositions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n