The ‘Forgotten' Social Responsibility of Social partners when Marketing Denmark: An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Aspects of Danish Work/Life Balance Policies
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This article examines the various Danish work/life balance policies regulated through collective agreements signed by trade unions and employers associations at sectoral level in the public and private sector. It argues that these workplace policies rarely are portrait as companies' corporate social responsibility and part of their ‘image of the products', but nevertheless social partners' work/life balance policies can be perceived as such social responsibilities, since they ensure Danish employees reasonable working conditions through relatively extensive rights in the workplace. However, the relatively well-developed work/life balance policies often favour specific groups of employees, particularly mothers and to a lesser degree fathers and other types of employees who combine work with care-giving. Therefore, Danish work/life balance policies appear to some degree to discriminate against carers other than mothers, indicating that this group of carers is expected to combine work and care-giving with limited if no support from their workplace.
In the following, the main features of the Danish labour market and the collective bargaining system is first briefly presented. We then discuss recent Danish initiatives on corporate social responsibility and different carer and gender focused models to develop an analytical framework. Afterwards the Danish work/care policies regulated through collective agreements are examined.Original language | English |
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Publication date | 2009 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Event | Gender, Climate and Sustainability - København, Denmark Duration: 13 Mar 2009 → 14 Mar 2009 |
Conference
Conference | Gender, Climate and Sustainability |
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Country | Denmark |
City | København |
Period | 13/03/2009 → 14/03/2009 |
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