In this way they have committed themselves to actively participate in the process of establishing the Country Pact for Healthcare. They want to lay the foundations to improve care for citizens in need, reverse gender inequality and promote quality employment in this sector.
The Social Dialogue Table committed itself this Wednesday to actively participate in the growth process of the Country pact for healthcarethat implies the promotion by government departments of policies that guarantee the “well-being” of the people who need it, with quality servicesand whose goal will be to create an “efficient and fairer” model of intervention.
In this way, the aim is to lay the foundations for improving the citizen attention that requires care, reversing gender inequality and also promoting a quality employment in this sector, as an “inevitable” premise, taking into account that this type of work represents “an important potential niche” of work.
From today’s meeting of the Social Dialogue Table, in which the Basque government, Coonfebask and the CCOO and UGT unions are represented, and in which the work plan 2023 was approved, this future country pact has emerged for the concern that has emerged from the social policy working group headed by the Department headed by Nerea Melgosa.
The text confirms that a social pact for care would have “a clear cross-cutting character”, as it concerns different areas of public action and different sectors that provide care and because it touches different social and economic areas “which, although they have their own content, are clearly linked and connected to each other.
In addition, the document states that public authorities should “guarantee the well-being of people at the time of their lives when they need care”, and that they should be “responsible for promoting and developing policies that ensure this”. from the coordination of the different administrative areas for their compliance.
paid care work
The agreement emphasizes that “it is necessary to pay specific attention to the paid care work or professionalised”. The agents of the Social Dialogue Table agree that the creation of quality employment in this sector is “an inalienable objective” of the employment policy, “as well as a basic element of a care model and care that is increasingly fair and also of higher quality and more efficient”.
Potential employment niche
Likewise, it emphasizes that care work is a challenge that must be answered in its many derivatives, “but it can and should also provide an opportunity.” The shared view of the members of the tripartite social dialogue implies “an important potential niche for employment, growth and economic development in the short, medium and long term”.
Melgosa emphasizes the “importance” of the agreement
The Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy, Nerea Melgosa, has assured that the agreement to have “our own model of care” through cooperation is of “extreme importance”.
“We are congratulated and we celebrate as the Ministry of Equality, Justice and Social Policy, responsible in the Basque government for leading the search for this agreement. And it is that our social reality is calling us, it is undeniable, that care is a problem center,” he assured.
Source: EITB
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