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| GAP: Best
Practices and Recommendations |
Having collected the active EOPs and GAPs implemented by partners,
the EGEE-II project has drawn up a list of best practices and
recommendations which it will advertise to the partners and Related
Projects.
The EGEE-II management strongly encourages gender equality and
recommends EGEE partners to consider these aspects in their equal
opportunity policy:
- To define
and adopt an equal opportunity policy adapted to the countries’ legislation
and practices;
- To review the equal opportunity procedures periodically
and perform regular statistical monitoring exercises;
- To commit to the principles of equal opportunity
in employment, in terms of gender and other minorities. This
can
be achieved through the inclusion of women in the selection
boards, making equal opportunity obligations clear, etc.;
- Implement
transparency of information on the institute’s
personnel structure in terms of gender;
- Provide
information and material to increase general awareness (such
as publishing
policy and statistics in the
form of leaflets, on the institute’s web pages, inform
the staff in charge of recruitment about their equal opportunity
obligations,
organise training courses on work-life balance subject, etc.);
- Establish an equal opportunity complaints procedure
against any kind of discrimination and harassment;
- Adopt measures to improve the work-life balance
for employees such as:
o consideration of alternative working arrangements (i.e:
working from home, adoption of part-time work, working time
flexibility)
for a period of time, in agreement with the management;
o Adequate maternity and paternity leave arrangements;
o Provision
of crèche
and/or kindergarten facilities;
- Investigation of gender-specific diseases to be
possibly taken into account in the periodic medical checks;
- Investigate representation of minorities as a whole
in the institute and create EOP committees dedicated to the
improvement of active EOP.
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