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Workshop ‘The European Social Dialogue: new procedures, new context’
Friday 5th June 2009
Workshop in the context of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law and Governance
The workshop aims at taking stock of the latest developments in the European social dialogue.
The objective is to finalise a publication relatively soon after the workshop.
The European social dialogue does no longer primarily function as a regulatory technique by way of cross-sectoral agreements implemented by Council Directive. Instead a more autonomous dialogue has developed with an increasing procedural diversity and bargaining activities at several levels. The first part of the workshop (and publication) provides a picture of the heterogeneity of social dialogue practices at several levels, paying particular attention to the use of autonomous agreements, developments in the sectoral dialogue, and interactions between several levels of dialogue, including European company level.
The second part places the European social partners’ activities in the context of the changing nature of the European social dimension. Changing European policy priorities and paradigms have influenced the role of the European social partners over the last years, such as the (renewed) Lisbon Strategy, the focus on flexicurity, the impact of enlargement and increased attention for the EU’s external dimension, and the recent case law reminding us about the precarious balance between social and economic values in Europe’s constitutional design.
Programme
8.45 Welcome by Stijn Smismans
PART 1: Developments in the multi-level collective bargaining game
Autonomous agreements
9.00 Stefan Clauwaert (Senior Researcher European Trade Union Institute): autonomous agreements
9.30. Tobias Mullensiefen (European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs): the current parental leave negotiations
10.00 Coffee break
Sectoral Dialogue
10.15 Philippe Pochet (Director European Trade Union Institute): sectoral dialogue
10.45 Kaeding, Michael (Lecturer European Institute of Public Administration):
"New kids on the block - European social dialogue for central public administrations".
11.15 Peter Turnbull (Professor of Human Resource Management Labour Relations at Cardiff Business School): Social dialogue in the transport sector: developments in ports.
Transnational collective bargaining
11.45 Evelyne Léonard (Professor at Institut des Sciences du Travail, Université Catholique de Louvain): interactions transnational company agreements and other levels of dialogue
12.15 Roland Erne (Lecturer School of Business UCD Dublin): European unions - and the prospects of transnational collective bargaining.
12.45-1.45 Lunch in Law School
PART II: The changing European ‘social dimension’ and the social dialogue
Lisbon Strategy and social dialogue
1.45 Janine Goetschy (Senior Research Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France, and Professor at the Free University of Brussels): The Lisbon Strategy and Industrial Relations
2.15 Nicole Kerschen (Senior Research Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France and Université de Paris X): The Employment Strategy and the social dialogue
Laval/Viking
2.45 Phil Syrpis (Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol, Law School): Laval, Viking …
3.15 Nick Parsons (Reader, Cardiff University, School of European Studies): Posted-workers and the political reaction to the case-law.
3.45 Coffee break
Enlargement and New Member States
4.15 Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ILO) (TBC)
4.30 Magnus Feldmann (Lecturer, University of Bristol, Politics Department): The influence of the EU on IR in Estonia and Slovenia
Flexicurity and social dialogue
5.00 Maarten Keune (Senior Researcher at European Trade Union Institute): Flexicurity and social dialogue: the European level and national positions.
5.30 Marcello Pedaci (Researcher at University of Teramo), paper together with Luigi Burroni (Associate Professor University of Teramo): The EU and flexicurity; lessons for industrial relations from the Italian case.
6.00 Conclusion and publication plans
- End
8.00 Conference dinner at Laguna Restaurant