On Wednesday, 6 March, the European Federation for Family Employment (EFFE) called for home-based employment to be standardised across the European Union when presenting its “European White Paper” to the European Economic and Social Committee in the presence of Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel.
The result of more than two years of collaboration with civil society organisations and European institutions, this White Paper aims to promote the private home-based employment sector, i.e. activities directly remunerated and declared by households such as the employment of household help, at a European level.
To this end, the EFFE has specifically proposed that a European reference framework be created to standardise employment between individuals, combining social protection for employees and the simplification of creating declared employment for employers.
According to the EFFE, this sector holds considerable potential for the EU, “provided that States implement—within a unified European framework—public policies in support of declared employment in this sector so as to enable families to recruit qualified individuals to help them and to ensure the social rights of and favourable working conditions for employees”.
Thanking the EFFE for its White Paper, Ms Gabriel affirmed that the European Commission was taking the future of home-based employment very seriously.
See the White Paper: https://bit.ly/2SMN9k4. (Original version in French by Damien Genicot - intern)