Who we are
Family (Net) Work – Whorkshop on home, family, and domestic work – is the new editorial project promoted by Assindatcolf in partnership with Censis, Effe (European Federation for Family Employment & Home Care), Fondazione Studi Consulenti del Lavoro, and Centro Studi e Ricerche Idos.
The 2023 Report, is structured in 4 chapters, each entrusted to one of the project partners: the 1st Paper to Censis, the 2nd to Centro Studi e Ricerche Idos, the 3rd to the European Federation Effe, and the 4th to Fondazione Studi Consulenti del Lavoro.
Assindatcolf
Assindatcolf is the National Association of Domestic Workers, founded in 1983 on the initiative of Confedilizia to represent and protect the category of families that employ domestic workers. It is a recognised association, registered since 2015 in the Register of Legal Persons at the Prefecture of Rome. To date, it is the only employers’ association to be so recognised.
Its aim is to bring the problems of domestic work to the attention of public opinion and institutions, in order to improve them and provide the sector’s representatives with the right answers. Assindatcolf is joined by individual domestic employers through its territorial offices spread throughout the country.
Together with Fidaldo, of which it is a member, Assindatcolf draws up contracts and collective agreements for domestic work and, through the same association, is a member of the sector’s Enti Bilaterali: Fondocolf, Cas.Sa.Colf and Ebincolf. Since 2015, it has also been a member of EFFE, the European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care, of which it is vice-president.
Censis
Censis, Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali, is a socio-economic research institute founded in 1964. It carries out a constant and articulated activity of research, consultancy and technical assistance, which has developed over the years through the realisation of studies on social, economic and territorial development, as well as intervention programmes and cultural initiatives in the vital sectors of social reality: education, work and representation, welfare and health, territory and networks, economic subjects, media and communication, public governance, security and citizenship. The annual report on the social situation of the country, produced by Censis since 1967, is considered the most qualified and complete tool for interpreting Italian reality.
EFFE
Effe – European Federation for Family and Home Care Employment, created in 2013, is one of the main actors in the personal and domestic services sector at EU level. It represents the interests of employers operating in the domestic and family work sector and, in particular, supports the recognition of the “direct” employment model, which aims to guarantee social rights for all stakeholders, taking into account the specific cultural approaches of each Member State.
Fondazione Studi Consulenti del Lavoro
Fondazione Studi Consulenti del Lavoro (Foundation for Studies on Employment Counsellors) is a private law body set up in 2001 on the initiative of the Consiglio Nazionale dei Consulenti del Lavoro (National Council of Employment Counsellors) to promote the profession of employment counsellor through research, training, updating and communication activities. In particular, the Study Foundation promotes studies and research on employment, with particular emphasis on legal and economic issues, labour market dynamics and public policy analysis and evaluation. In addition, given the role played by employment counsellors in the regulation and management of domestic work relations, the Foundation has for years carried out studies and analyses aimed at analysing the characteristics and evolution of employment in the domestic sphere.
IDOS
Centro Studi e Richerche Idos Study and Research Centre was founded in 2004 as a cooperative and publishing house by the original group of researchers working at Caritas in Rome for the production of the Dossier Statistico Immigrazione, the first organic annual socio-statistical report on immigration in Italy (the first edition was published in 1991).
In addition to this main publication, IDOS has over time produced other socio-statistical yearbooks (the Roman Observatory on Migration, the Report on Immigration and Entre-
preneurship, and – from 2001 to 2013 – the Report on Immigrant Integration Indices in Italy, produced on behalf of the CNEL) and thematic publications.
