This initiative represents a significant step towards the creation of a legal and social framework that reflects the changing realities of the 21st Century labour world. Discussed at the Time Use Week, the policy brief proposes six objectives and various practical measures to achieve a new organization of working time was presented. The presented document […]
The debate took place within the framework of Time Use Week 2023 and was based on the policy brief “The Right to Time: Perspectives for the 21st Century”, presented during the event. The document includes policy recommendations at the local, regional, national, and international levels to advance the implementation of the Right to Time in
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Time Use Week 2023 discusses tools for building a framework that ensures a new time balance between work, leisure, rest, and care. The week, which celebrates its international events in October 17th and October 18th, invites municipalities, institutions, and experts from around the world to participate. The Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council, the
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Urban policies do not usually include time use as a key factor, and yet cities are constantly trying to influence it. By adding new and faster mobility routes, providing childcare that saves time to caregivers, or applying the famous 15-minute city concept which connects time and space, cities change the everyday life of their citizens. Time policies allow cities to innovate by placing time at the centre of the urban agenda.
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Catalonia will be the meeting place where international representatives from municipalities, regions, international organisations, social and productive agents, and the research community will reflect on how to achieve the right to time. The conferences will be held between 16th and 20th October, highlighting the thematic days dedicated to the right to time and the role of local governments when implementing it (17th October), and on the future of working time (18th October). In preparation for the 2024 European Parliament elections, on 27th October a debate will be held with representatives of the European Parliament on how the right to time is to be placed on European Union’s agenda.
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The Time Use Initiative, as technical secretariat of the Local and Regional Governments Time Network has signed an agreement to be a collaborating organisation in the Smart City Expo World Congress, the forum for a more sustainable and equitable urban future.
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The Time Use Week is the international event for promoting knowledge and inspiration cases on time policies. Researchers, political institutions, social organisations, and citizens from all over the world participate and push the debate, advocating from their different fields of expertise, towards a better social time organisation. The upcoming tenth edition will take place between October 16th and 20th in Barcelona, under the motto “Towards a new time balance”.
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The Base Study for the Time Use and Schedules Rationalisation Law has been presented, with over 100 proposals for improving time organisation in Spain. The Study has been coordinated by the Time Use Initiative, which counted with over 60 experts and consultations with the main Spanish labour unions and employer’s association.
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