Communiqué, issue 6, 2004
Special Foundation Forum 2004
- Time to re-think work-life balance: Second Foundation Forum debates key issues
- Do we need to work longer hours?
- Time and flexibility
- Investing in work-life balance – a win-win situation?
- Work and care - payback for the elderly or investment in a new generation?
- Keynote round-up
- An economy or a society: where do we live and work?
Articles
- Focusing firmly on the year ahead
- Foundation forges closer ties with the EP
- Disability and social exclusion: Reversing the trend
- Europe ‘not losing jobs’ due to outsourcing of ICT services
Previous issues of Communiqué
A unique exhibition, outlining Foundation research and information in a number of key areas – building social cohesion, work-life balance, ageing and work, restructuring and managing change, industrial relations, and gender issues – was held at the European Parliament in Brussels, during the first week in December.
To coincide with the exhibition, a number of special presentations took place gathering the 25 social affairs attachés, at the permanent representation offices of all the EU Member States. A series of briefings with MEPs working in the social affairs arena was also held. The week-long show, which provided a platform for the Foundation at the centre of EU affairs in Brussels, also offered an ideal opportunity to introduce the Foundation to the new EU Commissioner for Social Affairs, Vladimír Špidla.
Vladimír Špidla, European Social Affairs Commissioner, with Foundation Acting Director, Willy Buschak