The employers thus tried to reinforce the idea of the impact on productivity of the exercise of these rights, which essentially concern paid leave and the adaptation of workplaces, including the provision of certain services. Their position, brief but strong since they did not have more than five interventions, is that it is necessary that all these efforts are assumed by the social protection systems, and not exclusively by the employers, i.e. in co-responsibility with the States and the workers themselves. The boldest intervention concerned the need for services, including care services, to be financed by governments or implemented through public-private partnerships.

On the workers' side, the general survey was appreciated and all the experts' proposals were presented positively in the 15 workers' interventions, highlighting existing gaps, including the pay gap, as well as violence in the world of work in different countries around the world. The tripartite players were all encouraged to continue their efforts and become more involved.

It is worth highlighting PSI's position, divided between the intervention of CUT-Brazil, CONTUA and PSI itself, which reinforced the importance of what was stated by the experts, in addition to our analysis:

• The indivisibility, interrelatedness and interdependence of international labour standards, starting with the study and extending them to equal pay, violence and freedom of association, including in the public sector.

• The need to look at historical time and to consider that international labour standards must take account of changes in the world with regard, for example, to taking account of all pregnant women, including new family compositions, including homoparental families, as well as deconstructing the binarism in which they are placed.

• Understanding Convention 156 in particular, as well as Conventions 111 and 183, as indivisibly linked to the need for care services, where our proposal for the reconstruction of the social organisation of care must operate.

• The importance of including this link between C156 and the national care system that is currently under construction in processes such as that in Brazil, as well as the importance of tripartite social dialogue in this initiative.

Governments, for their part, agreed with workers on the value of the general survey and the positions on care mentioned by the governments of Brazil and Argentina were relevant.

PSI, through the Women's World Committee (WWC), will closely follow the recommendations of the NAC on this general survey, while preparing a global action to highlight what has been foreseen in the discussion at the International Labour Conference.