Regional Equality Label

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• Regional Equality Label

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Regional Equality LabelCriteria
Objective

• Facilitate female access to predominantly male
  professional sectors
• Reduce feminine unemployment
• Provide industry with qualified and availlable
  labour
• Provide an example of exemplary practices
• Contribute to changing mentalities, erasing
  prejudice in the work-world
• Bring recognition to strategic and civic-minded
  choices of businesses

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Regional Equality LabelCriteria
Employment Framework

• Mission
• Constitution of a written set of requirements
• Reference and tools Proposition
• Method
• Analysis of National Equality Label
• Detailed meetings with participants in
  institutional and economic life
• Orientation
• Definition of a large target group all
  organisations regardless of their size, their
  activity or their age
• Maximum feasibility simple label, aiming at the
  consciousness, sensitising and interest
• Idea of different stages first step in being
  awarded a national label

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Label Mixité RégionalCriteria
Work bases

• Adaptation to locale constraints
• High rate of mono-parenthood
• Lack of day-care structures
• High proportion of early pregnancy
• High proportion of the unemployment, affecting
  women particularly
• Economic consisting essentially of TPE

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Regional Equality Label
Criteria

• Information and sensitising about gender equality
  in the workplace
• Internal communication to promote co-employment
  and equality
• Respect of the principle of professional equality
  (feminine presence at work meetings, fight
  against gender pre-conceptions and sexism,
  neutrality in hiring, exterior communication
• Provide the indication relative to professional
  equality (comparative reports of the situation of
  businesses with over 50 employees)
• Designation of a person responsible for
  integration and reception of female employees
• Taking into account the problems due to
  parenthood
• Inclusion of more women in decision taking
  (optional)

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Regional Equality Label
Putting in Effect

• How it functions
• The Regional Equality Label is developed by the
  Chambre des Métiers et de l'Artisanat (Chamber of
  Crafts and Artisans) with the participation of
  its partners
• The department responsible for the applications
  for the awarding of the Label is CHANCEGAL
• A label-award commission of several partners will
  be put into place
• The Label will be attributed for a period of 3
  years

• Provisional Calender
• End 2007 Creation of the Label
• Beginning 2008 communication and prospecting
• Throughout 2008 first awards

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• GUIDE TO INTEGRATION IN THE WORKPLACE FOR THE
  PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND GENDER CO-EMPLOYMENT

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Guide to integration in the workplace and the
promotion of equality and co-employment

• Objective
• This guide should
• Facilitate the hiring, reception and
  accompaniment of women in the traditionally male
  professions
• Aid in the taking into account of criteria of
  equality un co-employment

• Form
• The guide should be simple, accessible and take
  into account the preoccupations of the business
  community
• The guide should be made of advice/instruction
  sheets

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Guide to integration in the workplace and the
promotion of equality and co-employment
Contents

• A structure of 6 practical instruction sheets
• Sheet 1 Elements of an auto-diagnosis and
  evaluation of the practices concerning
  co-employment and professional
• Sheet 2 Reminder of laws, and regulations
• Sheet 3 Contacts and useful telephone numbers
• Sheet 4 Hiring ( writing a help-wanted ad,
  evaluating the skills and aptitude...)
• Sheet 5 Reception and accompaniment to the
  work-place (person in charge, preparation of the
  employees, further training)
• Sheet 6 Organisation (taking into account
  parenthood, lockers and bathrooms, specific
  tools, )
• Sheet 7 Evaluation of the integration within
  the workplace

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