Work and Care Act

Combining work and care

Combining work and care

The qualitative indices for the status of women on the labour market are now being enhanced somewhat.

Data from Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.

In addition, 214 unemployed women were given permanent work in small businesses and on dekhkan farms that were created, including the following

Women who head families are mainly employed in the production and sales of farm products.

pregnant women, depending on a medical finding, are allowed reduced work output and service standards or they are transferred to a lighter job that precludes exposure to adverse production factors and in which their average monthly wage remains the same as that of their previous job

Traditional and religious standards restrict the opportunities for women to realize their own economic interests on a par with men.

Plans call for educational work with women on the topic Family, hygiene and health .

Combining work and care and older women

Combining Work and Care and Spatial Development

I Gender based statistical information related to article 10, Census 2000, Central Bureau of Statistics Educational Statistics, Department of Education, school year 2002 2003 16

Combining work and care in rural areas

One of the main employment benefits is that all staff are given the opportunity to combine work with care.

Over the next few years the work and care' policy will be characterised by

ESF3 subsidy scheme for combining work and care

A subsidy scheme has been set up to encourage combining work and care there will be an annual opportunity for applications, the emphasis being on specific priorities and points of interest.

The areas of work are in the field of Education, Emergency Assistance, Health and Nutrition, Income Generating Activities, and Social Services.

For example, the Coordinating Council on Gender Problems was created in the Republic of Tajikistan Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, along with a specialized division.

Regular information to girls and boys on relationships and sexuality, starting in the sixth year of primary school Measures to combat teenage pregnancies Provide information about the risks of late pregnancies Structural support and shelters for pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers Measures to make it easier to combine work and care, with childcare provision as the main priority.

Conduct further research into and introduce facilities to ease the combination of work and care.

Part time employment provides scope for the long term adjustment of working hours to the requirements and obligations of combining work and care.

At the same time, several statutory schemes facilitate the combination of work and care.

Social services, such as education, health care, social welfare services and labour market services, are vitally important to promote the well being of families.

The two most important policy instruments are the Working Hours (Adjustment) Act (July 2000) and the Work and Care Act (December 2001).

For temporary adjustments of working hours to accommodate current care tasks, the Work and Care Act provides for a number of leave schemes, as follows

The Working Hours (Adjustment) Act was evaluated in 2004, and the Work and Care Act will be evaluated later in the year.

The sixth cluster of the European Social Fund's objective 3 programme is for combining work and care (sometimes called daily routine').

The Work and Care Act, which has been in force since December 2001, offers scope to adjust working hours temporarily in order to fulfil pressing care tasks. The government intends to expand

Work, care and income to define the promotion of women's economic independence through participation in the labour force as the essence of emancipation policy.

The government aims to encourage partners in a household to share the responsibilities of work and care more evenly, so that women can take on more paid employment and men can take on more care tasks.

The policy areas are work, care and income', power and decision making', human rights and women', the information society', and combining paid work and family responsibilities'.

Health care was free of charge.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection's vocational technical education system has 73 vocational technical schools that train specialists in 160 specialties.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, is developing an innovative interdepartmental initiative that takes existing needs into account in order to provide support to the neediest children in Tajikistan.

This Act aims to make it easier for parents to arrange childcare for their children and hence to combine work and care.

In Kyrgyzstan, a gender audit of the activities of all structural subdivisions of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare was carried out in 2003.

Basic health and welfare

Health, health care services

Ministry of Health and Welfare

Ministry of Health and Welfare

Also, in December 2001 the Research Centre for Gender Equality worked out a study on Management of Mental Illness .

Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport

Peace can be achieved only with a withdrawal of foreign troops, and the arrival of jobs, productive farms and factories, tourism, health care, and schools.