Communiqué, issue 3, 2004
Articles
- Foundation findings place family policies back on the agenda
- Social policy a priority for Dutch EU Presidency
- Monitoring industrial change in Europe: future prospects
- Quality of life in Europe: theme of the next information campaign
- Increasing number of lay-offs in the first quarter of 2004
- Trends and drivers of change in the European railway sector
- Benchmarking the quality of industrial relations in the public sector
- Changing attitudes toward financial participation
- The Foundation’s ‘open-door’ policy
Previous issues of Communiqué
The stable and secure employment relationship that may have been characteristic of local government organisations in the past is likely to be increasingly difficult to maintain in the future, the Foundation asserts in its recently published report, The quality of industrial relations in the European public sector. The report presents a set of 12 quality benchmarks on the quality of industrial relations, which is intended to serve as a basis for self-assessment and for the promotion of mutual learning across the public sector and across countries.
The research took a three-pronged approach which involved a literary review, an analysis of current collective agreements and legislation, and a survey of industrial relations experts in local government. The 26 experts were drawn from Finland, Germany, Ireland, and Italy, selected to represent the different models of industrial relations across Europe.