L 58/1474
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
23.2.2023
COMMISSION PILOT PROJECTS
CHAPTER PP 07 — INVESTING IN PEOPLE, SOCIAL COHESION AND VALUES (cont'd) PP 07 23
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(cont'd) — improving the health of employees and diminishing their stress, — facilitating longer careers, — creating new jobs, — rejuvenating the age pyramid in the company, — implementing qualifying organisations and increasing the responsibilities of all workers (given that managers them too would generally work less, it gives the opportunity to all workers to increase their responsibilities), — improving access to lifelong learning (particularly in SMEs), — increasing the use of the most expensive machines as well as increasing the hourly amplitude of opening times for customers...
What is the outcome of these experiences?
What were their successes?
What were their failures?
The aim of this pilot project is to make the most complete and pragmatic assessment possible of experiments concerning the organization of working time.
This analysis would be presented to social and political decision-makers.
The analysis will also be made available in educational materials (infographics, videos, etc.) in order to inform the general public about the good practices implemented in innovative companies in the different Member States.
The pilot project will concretely consist in organising meetings with the different stakeholders concerned by the implementation of working time policies: employers, decision-makers, academics, trade unions, etc., in order to document the impact of these policies on the different components of society.
These meetings will be documented and made visible to as many people as possible, notably through seminars, webinars, videos and reports made public.
The impact of this pilot project will be measured by the audience gathered by these various educational materials produced.
The subject of the organisation of working time can sometimes give rise to social tensions in certain countries.
Documentation work that gives a voice to employers, workers and other stakeholders on the basis of successful concrete experiences in a wide range of sectors (SMEs and large companies, public and private, social economy, etc.) can provide very positive input to the European social dialogue.
This pilot project will consist of two main phases: 1.
The first meetings in several countries (at least: Germany, Sweden, France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic...) and seminars in various European cities will be organised in 2023. 2.
The first documents, in written form, infographics and videos, will be made public in 2024.