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L’incidence des pratiques de conciliation travail–famille dans les milieux de travail canadiens : les milieux syndiqués sont-ils mieux pourvus et la situation s’améliore-t-elle ?Comme on parle beaucoup de conciliation travail-famille depuis quelques années, il est intéressant de voir si la situation a évolué dans les milieux de travail. Dans cet article, nous analysons les données canadiennes de l’enquête sur le milieu de travail et les employés (EMTE) de Statistique Canada. Nous nous demandons surtout si les milieux syndiqués sont mieux pourvus que les autres, si les hommes et les femmes disposent des mêmes mesures et si la situation s’est améliorée au fil des ans. Nous avons réalisé une analyse selon le sexe, selon que le milieu de travail est syndiqué ou non, et nous avons aussi fait une analyse comparative des données de 2002 et 2005 pour voir si la situation s’améliorait. Nous constatons que la situation est ambigüe pour ce qui est de la syndicalisation et de l’analyse selon le genre, certaines mesures étant plus accessibles que d’autres dans un cas ou l’autre et que la situation n’a pas beaucoup évolué dans le temps.<br>Work-life and work-family issues have been high on the agenda over recent years. In this paper, we wanted to see if the situation had gotten better over recent years and analysed the Workplace and Employment Survey (WES) of Statistics Canada. We ask whether unionized sectors are better off than non-unionized sector, if women and men have access to the same measures and if the measures offered have increased between 2002 and 2005. We see that the situation is ambiguous, in the sense that unionized sectors do not systematically have better measures, the gendered situation is also mixed and the percentage of workplaces offering measures has not systematically increased either.
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One-Year Results for the Kelly Air Force Base Compressed Work Week SurveyThe Armstrong Laboratory, Sustained Operations Branch, (AL/CFTO), was requested by the San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Human Resources Center, (SA- ALC/HRC) at Kelly AFB, TX, in May 1991 to evaluate worker attitudes during a trial transition from an 8-hour per day, 5-day work week to a 10-hour per day, 4-day work week. The trial period for this Compressed Work Schedule (CWS) began September-October of 1991. The one-year results were collected between Nov-Dec 1992, and there were 1,784 surveys collected, of which 1,695 were acceptable for statistical analysis. Overall, 59% of the workers indicated a preference for the CWS and 8% had no preference. However, 33% of those surveyed preferred their previous schedule of 8 hours per day during a 5-day work week. The 1-year survey examined the social impact of the CWS and the demographic characteristics of those who preferred and those who did not prefer the CWS. Although the majority consistently favored the CWS, certain characteristics emerged for those who did not. For example, certain directorates, or older employees, or those over 30 years in Federal service, or higher wage grade employees, or worked night shift, were demographic groupings that expressed less preference for the CWS than other groupings. Improvements under CWS in the quality of life were family life, spouse's happiness, and more time with spouse and children, plus improving morale at work, satisfaction at home and at work, resulting in social stability. Compressed work week, Lifestyle, Attitude survey, Air Force base workers.
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Mongolia Economic Update, December 2014In 2014, economic growth slowed as it
 began to adjust to unsustainable economic imbalances. Real
 GDP growth softened to 7 percent in the first 9 months, from
 12.8 percent in the previous year. Despite strong mining
 production growth of 26 percent, the growth of the
 non-mining sector of the economy dropped to 2 percent in the
 third quarter from 17.4 percent a year ago. Investment
 sharply fell amidst declining FDI and weakening business
 prospects. Consumption remains relatively strong but is also
 gradually softening. The growth effect from stimulus
 measures of the last year is also wearing off in 2014 as
 large liquidity support from the central bank cannot be
 sustained in the wake of high inflation and external
 vulnerabilities. The current account deficit is narrowing
 significantly to around 11 percent of GDP from almost 30
 percent in the previous three years, due to import
 contraction over 16 percent and stronger copper exports.
 However, a significant external financing gap continues
 amidst declining foreign investment, reducing internal
 reserves to less than three months import cover. Inflation
 remains in double digits after a strong credit boom in 2014
 and continuous currency depreciation. Economic growth is
 likely to continue to soften in 2015 as the economy remains
 under pressure from the external imbalance and high
 inflation. To help achieve the goal of the new
 Solutions-oriented Government to overcome economic
 challenges and build a sound economic management system, the
 following policy actions are recommended to be considered in
 the economic policy framework: (1) Consolidate the
 off-budget spending made through the DBM into the budget;
 (2) prepare a credible and realistic fiscal consolidation
 plan to reduce the deficit; (3) monetary policy should be
 tightened; (4) further quasi-fiscal activities need to be
 avoided; and (5) the exchange rate should be left flexible.