According to the latest European Commission Staff Working Document the European Union with its 500 million-plus citizens is not only growing older, but is becoming a lot more diverse at the same time. The paper states that the EU-27 member states are home to 20 million non-EU nationals, while there are also 10 million EU-nationals […]
With increased attention from top management, politics and the Media, the work on D&I has become a tougher business. Not so long ago, awareness raising programmes, networking platforms and informational communication were considered effective if they were positively evaluated. Nowadays, expectations for double-digit growth are extended to the representation of women in management, and stakeholders […]
Austria, Norway and Sweden have joined in the newest trend in European Diversity: Diversity Charters. In an effort to band companies together towards a common public goal of supporting, motivating and monitoring Diversity efforts, these new initiatives signal that European companies are not only intensifying their programmes but also aim to communicate their commitment externally.
The recent heated discussions over quota reignited by EU Commission Internal Market & Services Member Barnier reveal the true nature of Diversity: It is an emotional, personal and political issue in any sense of the words. Forget about the former choice of ‘social’ or ‘economic’ approaches. We are (finally) down to the pure power play […]
Am 18. November fand in Düsseldorf die Veranstaltung Vodafone LiFVe Art III statt. LiVFe Art ist das Vodafone Gewinnerprojekt des Wettbewerbs familie@unternehmen.NRW des nordrhein-westfälischen Familienministeriums, mit dem das Unternehmen weg von der rein kognitiven Betrachtung der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie einen Wandel in der Unternehmenskultur einleiten möchte.
In diesem Jahr hat die Nonprofit-Organisation AARP, welche es sich zum Ziel gemacht hat Menschen über 50 zu helfen ihre Lebensqualität zu verbessern, bereits zum dritten Mal den „International Innovative Employer Award“ verliehen. Mit dem Preis werden Arbeitgeber ausgezeichnet, dessen innovative Personalpraktiken sich an die Belange der älteren Arbeitnehmer richten und die eine Arbeitsumgebung für […]
Earlier this month, members of the European Parliament ruled in favour of expanding minimum maternity leave in Europe from 14 to 20 weeks and paternity leave to two weeks on full pay, a proposal which they must now try to sell to individual governments. In the end, MEPs decided to go beyond the initial proposal […]
The Commission recently adopted a five-year strategy for promoting equality between women and men in Europe. The strategy aims in particular to make better use of women’s potential, thereby contributing to the EU’s overall economic and social goals. It translates the principles set out in the European Commission’s Women’s Charter into specific measures, ranging from […]
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2010 was released last month with overall encouraging news on equality between men and women in 134 countries, representing over 93% of the world’s population. The countries were assessed on how well they divide resources and opportunities amongst male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels […]
The European Commission has released a report setting out in a consolidated way the rights of Europeans to live and work in another EU country. The report also provides an update on legal developments in the past decade. Currently, 2.3% of people in the EU reside in a Member State other than their own. However,
