ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a transformation which is giving rise to major tensions in the coherence of employment standards and social protection standards. It develops with reference to a stabilized standard working arrangement in the population and over the life cycle. The polarization around wage employment alone meant that the varieties of working arrangements identified by surveys of the time schedules of households were overlooked. The multiplication and development of so-called atypical forms of employment are undermining the coherence of social protection as it relates to direct wages and assistance. The coherence between employment standards and social protection standards must be founded on the fulfilment of these requirements. It must make it possible to diversify trajectories over the life cycle through a combination or alternation of heterogeneous but complementary forms of working time arrangements, whether paid or benevolent, as well as training and periods of domestic activity.
