Polish and Ukrainian Mums on the Polish labour market

Project facts

Project promoter:
Employers of the Lublin region Lewiatan(PL)
Project Number:
SDDW-0090
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€118,800
Donor Project Partners:
Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise(NO)

Description

Building on a previous project, this project will facilitate the employment of women, including the integration of Ukrainian female refugees into the Polish labour market, by focusing on work-life balance measures. This will be reached by increasing knowledge among employers and female workers about efficient tools to enable women to reconcile work and children.  

Training and counselling activities are targeted at a group of Polish and Ukrainian women, but the project also strengthens tripartite cooperation  on active labour market measures (ALMPs) to make it possible for women to enter and remain in work. The partnership with the Norwegian partner NHO will continue exchanging experience on work-life balance measures in Norwegian enterprises. and work-life. 

The project aims at delivering on outcome 3 on facilitated access to employment, but there are also elements of outcome 1 on social dialogue.  

The following activities will be carried out:

- A pilot training course for 24 Polish and 10 Ukrainian women who are mothers of small children and intend to become employed. Courses on work-life balance, negotiation, etc. and individual counselling for Ukrainian women.
- A Report of good practices on the topic: "Support for Ukrainian mothers on the labour market in Poland" as an e-book in Polish and English version.
- a two-days Conference "Groups excluded from the labour market" with 40 participants from Norwegian Partner, social partners and public authorities
- Campaign in the media (press, internet, social media)
- a three-days study visit for 15 representatives of board members, managers and PLL staff to learn about Norwegian good practices in ALMP measures and solutions facilitating access to employment of women who are supposed to reconcile the role of a mother and an employee, with emphasis on mothers who are refugees or migrants.- 

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