Communiqué, issue 5, 2003
Articles
- Approaching enlargement
- Changes in Europe's financial services market
- Foundation seminar: living and working conditions in 2010
- EIRO expands to cover ten enlargement countries
- Promoting employee financial participation
- Enlargement: longer working hours in the acceding and candidate countries
- European Restructuring Monitor
- Observers from the acceding countries join the Administrative Board
Previous issues of Communiqué
The European Industrial Relations Observatory’s (EIRO) network of correspondents has expanded to cover 10 enlargement countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia.
"We aim to collect, analyse and disseminate high-quality information on key developments in industrial relations in the acceding countries, following the same model that currently exists for the EU Member States," says Willy Buschak, the Foundation’s Acting Director. "The EIRO cross-country comparisons will be further developed to cover topics on the EU political agenda."
Monitoring industrial relations developments
The European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) was set up more than five years ago, following a request by the European Commission and the social partners. The aim is to provide national and European-level social partner and governmental organisations, and EU institutions, on a regular basis with news and analysis of industrial relations developments in Europe. EIRO recorded an average 170,000 user sessions per month during the first six months of this year, which represents an increase of more than 120% compared to the first six months in 2002.
New products from EIRO
Over the next couple of months, comparative reports on topics such as collective bargaining (on occupational pensions, childcare and parental leave), tripartism in the acceding countries and industrial disputes will be published by the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO).
The second Industrial relations developments in Europe report, a joint effort between the Foundation and the European Commission, which presents a comparative overview of the most significant industrial relations developments in 2003, is already in the production pipeline. The annual review, entitled Industrial relations in the EU, Japan and USA, which examines key issues such as pay, gender pay inequality, working time, new forms of work, leave, training and skills development, is due to be published before the end of the year.
For more information, please contact Camilla Galli da Bino.