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The Pillar of #SocialRights is about delivering new and more effective rights for citizens, built upon 20 key principles.

What to learn more about the Pillar❓ Check out this website 👉🏻ec.europa.eu/social-rights and keep an eye on this thread 👇🏻

Principle number 1 of the European Pillar of #SocialRights: "Education, training and life-long learning". ✍🏻 👨🏻‍🏫 📘

"Everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and life-long learning (...)" 👉🏻 europa.eu/!Rc63QY

Principle no 2 of the European Pillar of #SocialRights: "Gender equality". ♀️♂️

"Equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men must be ensured and fostered in all areas (...). Women and men have the right to equal pay for work of equal value."

Principle no 3 of the Pillar of #SocialRights: "Equal opportunities".

"Regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, everyone has the right to equal treatment and opportunities (...). "
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Principle 4 of the Pillar of #SocialRights: "Active support to employment".

"Everyone has the right to timely and tailor-made assistance to improve employment or self-employment prospects. (...) People unemployed have the right to personalised, continuous & consistent support."

Principle 5 of the Pillar of #SocialRights: "Secure and adaptable employment ".

"Regardless of the type and duration of the employment relationship, workers have the right to fair and equal treatment regarding working conditions, access to social protection and training."

"Wages" is the principle number 6 of the Pillar of #SocialRights.

"Workers have the right to fair wages that provide for a decent standard of living. Adequate minimum wages shall be ensured. (...) In-work poverty shall be prevented".

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"Information about employment conditions and protection in case of dismissals" is the 7th principle of the Pillar of #SocialRights.

"Workers have the right to be informed in writing at the start of employment about their rights and obligations".

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Social dialogue is a building block of the EU social model, that's why the 8th principle of the Pillar of #SocialRights is "social dialogue and involvement of workers".

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Work-life balance is the principle 9 of the Pillar of #SocialRights.

"Parents and people with caring responsibilities have the right to suitable leave, flexible working arrangements and access to care services. Women and men shall have equal access to special leaves (...)".

Healthy, safe and well-adapted work environment and data protection” is the 10th principle of the Pillar of #SocialRights.

“Workers have the right to a high level of protection of their health and safety at work. (…)”. #EUhealthyworkplaces

“Childcare and support to children” is the 11th principle of the Pillar of #SocialRights. 👧👦

“Children have the right to affordable early childhood education and care of good quality. Children have the right to protection from poverty.”

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☂️ Principle 12 of the European Pillar of #SocialRights is about social protection:

"Regardless of the type and duration of their employment relationship, workers, and, under comparable conditions, the self-employed, have the right to adequate social protection."

"The unemployed have the right to adequate activation support from public employment services to (re)integrate in the labour market and adequate unemployment benefits of reasonable duration [...]"

This is principle 13 of the European Pillar of #SocialRights ↓

Principle 14 of the European Pillar of #SocialRights is about minimum income:

"Everyone lacking sufficient resources has the right to adequate minimum income benefits ensuring a life in dignity at all stages of life, and effective access to enabling goods and services [...]"