Conference on Parental Childcare and Employment Policy

Date: 5.2.2009 — 6.2.2009
Venue: Prague - Czech Republic
Category: Conferences and Seminars
Theme: Employment, Soc. Pol., Health and Cons. Affairs

The meeting of Family Affairs Ministers will be followed by a Presidency conference on parental childcare and employment policy on 5-6 February.

The Presidency aims to strengthen the perception of domestic parental care of small children as a form of employment in its own right. Besides Minister Petr Nečas and European Commissioner Vladimír Špidla several other figures of political and academic life will participate in the ensuing thematic conference of the Czech Presidency (5 – 6 February). These will include Italian Minister for Equal Opportunities Mara Carfagna, French Secretary of State responsible for family affairs Nadine Morano, Paul Kirchhof from Heidelberg University in Germany, Spiridon Paraskewopoulos from the University of Leipzig and Lubomír Mlčoch from the Charles University in Prague. A press conference on the thematic conference on parental childcare and employment policy is tentatively scheduled for 5 February at 14:10 in the Prague Congress Centre. It will be attended by Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Petr Nečas and European Commissioner responsible for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Vladimír Špidla. Journalists can obtain accreditation for the press conference on the website of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic by clicking on the following link: www.mpsv.cz/cs/6054.

Contact:

Jana Říhová, spokesperson for the Presidency, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic
tel.: +420 221 922 249, GSM: +420 725 761 147 ; e-mail: jana.rihova@mpsv.cz, www.mpsv.cz