The European care strategy from a legal-labor approach

Abstract

Caring for people is becoming one of the policies to which most attention is beginning to be paid by the European Union institutions, in particular, paid and unpaid care work; its effects on the labour market, especially for women who are the majority of the people who carry it out; as well as other derivatives such as the need for immigrants, which derive from the greater need for care that our society will have to face, in particular due to the process of demographic ageing that we are experiencing. This paper will focus on showing how the political perspective on the care sector is evolving on the basis of the measures put forward by three European institutions, the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Council.