WG Employment mutual learning on jobs in care sector -  Lyon, 25-26 Nov

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WG Employment mutual learning on jobs in care sector - Lyon, 25-26 Nov

EUROCITIES WG Employment mutual learning on increasing the attractiveness of jobs in care sector

By EUROCITIES and Lyon

Date and time

November 25, 2020 · 12:30am - November 26, 2020 · 4:30am PST

Location

Online

About this event

Cities increasing the attractiveness of jobs in care sector: employment and skills development in Lyon 

Theme of the meeting

Care jobs are essential for our society. The COVID19 pandemic has put a high pressure on care work for both care receivers and care givers. Elderly and people with disability have suffered additional vulnerabilities like isolation and difficulties in accessing treatments, food and cleaning supplies. The workforce shortages in care sector has impacted on the existing workers which were under immense burden in delivering support to people in need. Beside the challenges brought by the pandemic with almost half of COVID-19 deaths in Europe occurring in long-term care settings , the ageing population of EU and the changing care dependency show an increasing need to strengthen the provision of quality care. To increase the attractiveness of care jobs, workers must have access to better working conditions, improved quality and fair payed wages.

The public and private investment in care service provision has proven the positive return for society (e.g. return of women to payed employment, employability of older persons or people with intellectual impairments). At EU level, the European Pillar of Social Rights states under principle 18 on long-term care that ‘everyone has the right to affordable long-term care services of good quality, in particular home-care and community-based services. To better respond to all the challenges and the negative effects of the pandemic, cities are designing and implementing innovative approached to address the increasing dependency on care for their people.

Lyon Metropole’s Department for Elderly and Disability and the Department for Inclusion and Employment are jointly running an action plan to promote the inclusion of Registered Work Welfare (RSA) Beneficiaries into the care sector. The aim is to create the conditions that will allow job seeker to access first-level jobs while meeting the challenges of the sector.

We are looking for three cities to present their practice on increasing the attractiveness of care jobs

We are searching for good practices from cities to be presented during the meeting. The main focus should be on the attractiveness of care jobs especially on:

  1. working conditions and mobility of workers (contracts, wages etc.)
  2. gender perspective
  3. relation with private sector.

If you are interested, submit your application before 17 November to patricia.couti@eurocities.eu. You can find the application form here: https://bit.ly/37Nb8Lp

Timeline

Morning 1 - Wednesday 25 November

  • Official welcome
  • Setting the context - Lyon’s strategic approach employment in care jobs
  • Deep diving into local good practices from Lyon

Morning 2 - Thursday 26 November

  • Cities practices and experience with attractiveness of jobs in care sector
  • Taking stock of the lessons learned from Lyon’s model for employment in care jobs
  • Business meeting

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