Les dispositifs d'entreprise en direction des familles
This research provides an overview of the facilities proposed by French companies to help their employees, not only to reconcile work and family life, but more widely in the fulfillment of their parental responsibilities. The commitment of companies is strongly framed by the legislation and by the conventional regulations, and the companies' support comes from various sources: Human resources departments, collective bargaining and works councils. The research also captures how work-life balance facilities are bargained. The first part of the report is devoted to the findings of quantitative analysis while the second part describes the diverse provisions enabling employees to improve their parental duties based on a qualitative study. The third part examines the content of some innovative collective agreements on work-life balance and parenthood. In the last part of the report, different commitment regimes are identified with respect to the combination of practices from the social partners within the company, taking account of the contrasted commitment of the trade unions in this issue, as also of the constraints due to the size of the company, the characteristics of the workforce, the profile of the employer and the cultural and historical background of the company.
La conciliation travail-famille, dimension fondamentale de la qualité de l’emploi
Ce texte resitue la Conciliation Travail-Famille (CTF) dans le cadre plus large de la « Qualite de l’emploi », ce qui concentre l’attention sur les aspects professionnels de la question. Il traite ensuite de facon transversale du role des trois instances supranationales que sont le BIT (Bureau international du travail), la Fondation de Dublin et la Commission Europeenne dans le gouvernement de la CTF. Qu’entend-on, tout d’abord, par « qualite de l’emploi » (ou, selon la perspective du BIT « travail decent ») ? Au sens le plus large, il s’agit d’un concept multidimensionnel touchant a la qualite du travail exerce et de son contenu, mais aussi aux caracteristiques de l’emploi et de la personne qui l’occupe, ainsi qu’a l’environnement des travailleurs et au fonctionnement du marche du travail dans son ensemble. Nous verrons bien la diversite des contenus, et montrerons que la CTF peut d’ailleurs relever aussi bien du niveau macro que du niveau meso.
The incidence of dead and dying fish in the Moray Firth, September 1963
Dead and dying fish were reported from the Moray Firth during a period of 15 days in September 1963. The initial mortalities were in the inner Firth, but they later spread outwards, especially eastwards along the southern shores of the Firth. Mass mortalities of the lugworm (Arenicola marina) also occurred in Scottish waters in 1962 and 1963, and at Balintorein Easter Ross fish and lugworm mortalities were contemporary.