Monitoring the European social dialogue
Description
This project is intended to scientifically cover issues related to the development of particular themes of the European social dialogue that are of major interest for the European Trade Union movement such as evaluation of the instruments of the European social dialogue. Research is also launched as regard the identification, analysis and evaluation of negotiated agreements at European and international level, such as the international framework agreements involving European industry federations, national, European and international trade unions EWC.
Since the existence of the institutional and legal framework at the EU level, the social partners ETUC/UNICE-UAPME/CEEp have been able to take advantage of the provisions of the social protocol and the agreement on social policy to start negotiations on parental leave, part-time work, fixed-term work and temporary agency work. Those agreements were given a legally binging character by EU Council decision and took the form of EU Directives.
The objective of this project is to conduct a comparative survey on the implementation and monitoring in the Member States of the instruments of the cross sectorial EU social dialogue, such as framework agreements/directive and autonomous framework agreements. Regular overview of the implementation processes of both the telework and the work-related stress agreements are established and presented e.g. at the Netlex Conference in 2004 and 2005 and is foreseen for the Netlex Conference 2006. Furthermore, multidisciplinary research is foreseen on the implementation of the EU cross- sectorial and sectorial agreements as well as on the framework of action (such as the ones on lifelong learning and gender equality) in line with the first and second Social Dialogue work programmes of the EU social partners.
Finally ETUI-REHS is involved as expert in a research project on International Framework Agreements as a new development in social regulation at company level funded by the Dublin Foundation (running period: Sept 2006-May 2007). The project will focus on the identification, analysis and evaluation of negotiated agreements at European and international level, such as the international framework agreements involving European industry federations, national, European and international trade unions and EWC. The aim of this research project is to assess the role and impact of such agreements on labour standards and on industrial relations at EU level.
Researchers
Wiebke Warneck
Researcherphone: +32 (0) 2 224 05 32
Isabelle Schömann
Senior Researcher, ETUI-REHS - NETLEX Coordinatorphone: +32 (0) 2 224 07 24 and + 49 421 200 5020
Stefan Clauwaert
Senior researcher, ETUI-REHSphone: +32 (0) 2 224 05 04
