The civil service is looking to help employees (the number of which has been identified as 23%) who have to combine work and caring for a family member or friend. To this end, a “Carer’s Passport” has been introduced. It is provided to civil servants and documents the flexibilities needed to support the carer. The aim is to minimise the need to re-negotiate these flexibilities every time an employee moves post, moves between departments or is assigned a new manager.

This working paper was drafted by the International Labour Organization as part of the Global Dialogue Forum on Challenges to Collective Bargaining in the Public Service and analyses the regulation and practice of social dialogue in the public service within EU Member States, with a focus on the forms of social dialogue and their evolution after the onset of the 2008 economic crisis.

Staff working for this département in the Greater Paris Region are being invited to respond to an “innovative premises” call for projects to revamp the Council’s headquarters which date back to the 1980s. Once all the proposals have been submitted, six will be pre-selected and the teams will receive support to work on their projects for four months. Three of these proposals will be chosen and work will begin in the summer of 2019. The Council has earmarked €500,000 for this initiative.