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- Gender
Regional Equal Opportunities Counsellor functions, objectives and activities are provided by the national law (D.Lgs. n. 23 may 2000, no. 196).
Only people with high skills and expertise about female work, laws on equal opportunities and equality could be appointed to the office of Regional Equal Opportunities Counsellor. The expert is designated by the Region and then appointed by a public act of the Ministry of Welfare in cooperation with the Ministry of Equal Opportunities.
An Equal Opportunities Counsellor in charge and an Equal Opportunities Counsellor substitute are designated on the national, regional and provincial level. They all stay in charge for 4 years.
Functions and tasks :
The Equal Opportunities Counsellor acts to promote and to ensure the application of the principles of equality, equal opportunities and gender equality in every field of work; he/she undertakes all the necessary and useful initiatives.
Mains activities are: surveying lack of gender equality in order to explicate promotion and defense against discriminations provided by law 10 April 1991, no. 125 ; promotion of positive actions; promotion of the integration of equality policies in local bodies programs and decisions; to support labour active politics, including training, promoting equality; to promote the improving of equal opportunities politics of public and private bodies in the labour market; cooperation with public bodies (on a regional and local level) in charge of monitoring application of the laws which regulate the labour market, in order to plan effectiveness procedures to verify forms of discriminations and applications of the laws about equality, and equal opportunities; to promote informations campaign and awareness activities on the equal opportunities issue; monitoring and assessment of positive actions results (law no. 125/91).