Selected policy recommendations

Introduction of a "Time Act": Working times and locations must take into account individual needs in the specific life phase
Support for more remuneration/pay rate transparency
Improvement of instruments for company gender equality
Gender-competent vocational counselling
Adult training programmes should be available to everyone
Improved social security for self-employed persons via integration into the social security systems

Definition: SAHGE jobs = SA: Social work, H: Household-related services, G: Health and care work, E: Child rearing
Restructuring of job profiles, training and advanced education, as well as career and promotion opportunities
Adequate remuneration during nursing training
Campaign to make these professions more attractive

Introduction of a two-week leave period of paternity leave during the first 30 days after the birth of a child
Extension of the "partner months" in connection with the payment of a parental allowance
Introduction of the concept of family working time: A flatrate benefit for up to 24 months if both parents continue working in a reduced full-time mode within a certain time corridor
Flexible time budgets for parents of children under 18 and for persons taking care of relatives of e.g. a total of 120 days, linked to true compensation for loss of income (e.g. equal to parental benefits)
Improvement of the infrastructure for childcare with needs-oriented full-time schooling and pedagogically reasonable staffing ratios. Improvement of care infrastructure through increased public funding for family-friendly care arrangements

Promotion of employment subject to social insurance contributions and engagement of service providers
Minimum legal work requirements in accordance with the ILO Convention No. 189
Safeguarding standards for good and sustainable employment by introducing independent and standardised certificates
Introduction of a subsidised voucher system for household-related services (in line with the Belgian model)

Occupational support via information, counselling and further training offers that are independent from social benefits
Legal right to return and right to the same or equivalent job upon return as well as retention of acquired rights
No demotion in public service due to absence from employment
Introduction of a labour law-related entitlement to "employers’ re-entry management"

Dismantling of income-tax-related incentives for specialisation in paid work and care work in marriages
Extension of non-contributory family (co-)insurance to members of a chosen family and creation of independent access to health and long-term nursing care insurance
Income from marginal employment must be treated equally to other insurable employment in terms of taxation
Introduction of compulsory social insurance for marginal work
Provision of information on property regimes ahead of concluding a marriage
Introduction of the community property system as the legal property regime
Renaming of the statutory property regime from "community of accrued gains" to "property separation with shared gains"

Prevention of later pension adjustments by introducing uninterrupted pension obligations
Reinforcement of the statutory pension insurance fund as the core of old-age provisions and developing it into a universal insurance system with a minimum pension level
Later social pension adjustments in case of low pension entitlements
Improvement of women‘s access to occupational pensions and private insurance schemes