Workshop on Personal and Household Services (PHS) in Finland

In the context of the Project ‘Advancing Personal and Household Services (Ad-PHS)’ co-funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement VP/2018/013/0003), we kindly invite you to the national Workshop in Finland on 16 March 2020 from 9 am to 4 pm at Helsinki Congress Paasitorni, Paasivuorenkatu 5A, 00530 Helsinkiwww.paasitorni.fi.

The Workshop will bring together the various stakeholders at national level from both care and non-care services, e.g. public authorities, service providers, trade unions, employers, academics and researchers, user organisations, training institutions, etc., to improve the knowledge of PHS policies and to share promising practices.

The Workshop will discuss the following topics.

  • State of play of personal and household services in Finland
  • Government policies and programmes to support PHS
  • Social partners, collective bargaining and social dialogue in PHS
  • Professionalisation of PHS jobs

or more information, please see the attached invitation and European Commission support letter.The workshop will be held in Finnish, with English interpretation.Please register HERE.

For further questions, please contact Kerstin Howald k.howald@effat.org.

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