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European Homeworking Group (EHG)

In the early nineties, a European Homeworking Group was set up to share experience and lobbying within the European Union. The EHG had a number of meetings to share experience and develop a joint lobbying strategy, particularly around the campaign for the adoption of the Convention on Home Work by the International Labour Organisation.

Since then new organisations have been started, through the HWW mapping programme, in a number of Balkan countries. In addition, The National Working Group on Women Homebased Workers in Turkey has expanded its work to different cities and regions.

If you are interested in working with homeworkers anywhere in Europe, or if you are already doing this work, you can get in touch with us at info@homeworkersww.org.uk
We would be interested in information from you about any recent developments. Please download the document below for some questions on homeworking in Europe.

EHG Questions
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Green Paper

The European Commission has recently published a Green Paper on employment, called: Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st Century (English)
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For more information about the Green Paper, the text in different languages and a questionnaire in English, French or German, go to the European Union website

This is an opportunity to lobby the European Commission on the need for employment and social protection for homeworkers. We would be interested in hearing from you your opinions on this. Drawing on our experience, the following document has some of the key points that you may want to raise.

HWW Comments on the Green Paper
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Send us your opinions, particularly any response that you send to the European Commission. Let us know if you want them posted on our website so that others can access them.

The Green Paper includes the new European concept of ‘flexicurity’, which implies a trade off for more security with more flexibility. There is some concern that in reality this will mean a weakening of employment protection in the name of more flexibility and the need to be competitive.

For some general comments on the idea of flexicurity, see the website of the Social Platform which includes ten key principles on flexicurity:

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• Viji Fellowship Scheme
• The ILO Convention
• The Ethical Trading Initiative
• European Homeworking Group