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• EMPLOYMENT SITUATION IN GALICIA

Bratislavia, June 2006
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Unemployment in Galicia
Men 60.129 (37,1) Women 103.032 (63,1)

• Registered unemployment (May 2006) 163,161 people

Unemployment 2.004.528
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POPULATION
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Active employment measures

• Employment Promotion Office
• Initiatives for employment.
• Support for enterprising people self-employment,
  social economy and employment initiatives.
• Cooperation programmes.
• Escuelas taller (occupational schools) and
  employment workshops.
• Program for the promotion of employment for women
  victims of violence.

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Legal Framework Galician Law 7/2004 16th June on
Equality between Women and Men

• Female employment Plan.
• Objectives.
• To establish comprehensive programs of
  occupational training intended to promote
  employment and reconciliation within sectors
  where women are underrepresented.
• Womens training and incorporation into (self)
  employment. Specifically directed towards women
  aged 45 and older who have never had
  extra-domestic work or who abandoned their jobs
  in order to take care of children or other
  relatives.
• Womens training in new technologies.
• Employed womens training for career promotion.
• Labor insertion of women victims of violence.
• Labor insertion of women with disabilities.

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Galician Womens Labor Insertion Bill

• Structure
• Preliminary Title.
• 6 Titles.
• 50 articles.
• 10 additional provisions.
• 1 transitory provision.
• 1 revocation provision.
• 3 final provisions.

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Preliminary TitleMainstreaming is introduced as
a principle informing the execution of autonomous
competences on employment and labor relationships.

• Introduction of mainstreaming as regards to
  employment.
• Recognition of occupational good faith with
  respect to victims of violence.
• Strengthening of reconciliation measures.
• Creation of the Equality Unit.

Title IPromotion of equality within companies.

• Promotion of equality within companies.
• Corporate social responsibility over equality
• Setting-up of a Galician Label of Excellence in
  Equality.
• Promotion of equality within cooperatives.

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Title IIEquality promotion in collective
negotiation spheres and work collective
relationships.

• Creation of the Autonomous Consulting Commission
  for Equality between Women and Men in Collective
  Negotiation.

Title IIIIntegration of gender equality in
employment policies.

• Implementation of positive action measures.
  Integrating gender equality and corresponsability
  contents. Encouragement of the personal, family,
  and work life balance of the alumni.

• Integration of equality in employment, in
  professional training, and in active employment
  policies.

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Title IVIntegration of gender equality in
preventive policy.

• Introduction of the concept of equality in labor
  risk prevention matters. Study of work accidents
  and work-related health problems.
• Promotion of research.

Title VAutonomous Regions promotion of
municipalitys work-life balance measures.

• Municipality Time Banks.
• The Citys Time Programming Plan.

Title VIWomens participation in the Autonomous
Administration Department in charge of Work
matters.

• Creation of the Galician Council for Womens
  Participation in the work sphere and labor
  relationships.

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AnnexSixth supplementing provision. Women with
special difficulties for job placement or in a
situation determined by social disadvantage.

• Concept of women with special difficulties for
  job placement and in situation determined by
  social disadvantage.
• Gender violence victims
• Women who wish to give up prostitution
• Women with underage children or exclusively
  responsible for people with dependency burden.
• Women 45 years and older, under a long-term
  unemployment situation
• Women who are recipients of social insertion
  income.
• Physically challenged women.
• Women who belong to an ethnic minority.
• Women who are deprived of their freedom.