Better work and life

EU Presidency conference on:

Better work and life: Towards an inclusive and competitive enlarged Union - 12-13 May 2003, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Co-organised by the Greek Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Programme

• Monday 12 May 2003

  • Morning

  • Afternoon

• Tuesday 13 May 2003

Monday 12 May

Chairperson: Raymond-Pierre Bodin, Director, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

09.00 Welcome

Dimitris Reppas, Minister for Labour and Social Security, Greece
Anna Diamantopoulou*, Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission

09.45 Remarks from the European Parliament

Theo Bouwman MEP, Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Prof. Ioannis Koukiadis MEP

10.15 Quality in employment and social policies in an enlarged EU

John Morley, Adviser to the Director General of Employment and Social Affairs DG, European Commission

10.30 Quality in living and working conditions and in industrial relations

Stavroula Demetriades, Robert Anderson and Pascal Paoli, research coordinators, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

11.15 Coffee

11.30 - 13.00 Three parallel workshops

WORKSHOP 1 Employment status

Moderator: Kees J. Vos, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, The Netherlands

Speakers:

• Roberto Pedersini: Economically dependent workers

• Brendan Burchell: Women and employment

• Lena Tsipouri: Temporary agency work

• Philip Taylor: Ageing workforce

• Sue Vella: Precarious employment in the candidate countries

• Patricia O’Donovan (ILO): The employment relationship: the global perspective

Rapporteur: Prof. Maria Karamessini, Panteion University

WORKSHOP 2 Work and non-work time management

Moderator: Pascal Paoli, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Speakers:

• Marco Mareggi: Time in the city: a new issue for an urban policy

• François Michon: Overtime issues

• James Arrowsmith: Working time and quality of work

• Aliki Mouriki: Working and non-working time management: a priority area for policy action

• Isabella Biletta: Reconciliation of family and work life

• Edward Zammit: Working time issues in the candidate countries

Rapporteur: Prof. Giorgos Kouloules

WORKSHOP 3 Modernisation of work organisation

Moderator: Panayotis Theofanopoulos, Secretary General for the management of European funds

Speakers:

• Manfred Weiss: Employee participation

• Christos Ioannou: Adaptation to change: in search of flexi-security

• Anni Weiler, Rien Huiskamp: Quality in industrial relations: comparative indicators

• László Neumann: Work organisation

• Marc Mathieu: Financial participation

Rapporteur: Costas Eustratoglou

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Workshops continue

15:30-16:00 Coffee

16:00-17:00 Workshops continued

20.00 Dinner

Tuesday 13 May

Chair: Ioanna Panopoulou, Secretary General, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Greece

9:00 Presentation of the workshops' findings

Rapporteurs: Maria Karamessini, Prof Giorgos Kouloules, Costas Eustratoglou

Synthesis: Kieran Mulvey, Chief Executive of the Labour Relations Commission, Ireland

9:30 Panel discussion

• Paul Edwards, Warwick University, United Kingdom: New forms of work organisation

• Manfred Weiss, Goethe University, Germany: Employment status

• Klara Foti, Institute of World Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: The implementation of social dialogue in the accession coun

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00 Panel discussion

• Walter Cerfeda, Director of the European Secretariat, CGIL

• Thérèse de Liedekerke, Director of Social Affairs, UNICE

• Anne-Sophie Parent, President, Platform of European Social NGOs

• Carlotta Besozzi, Policy Officer of the European Disability Forum

• Benne van Popta, UEAPME's representative at the EU Social Dialogue Committee

12:15 Closing session

Raymond-Pierre Bodin, Director, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Dimitris Reppas, Minister for Labour and Social Security, Greece

Frank Fahey*, Minister for Labour Affairs, Ireland

Roberto Maroni*, Minister for Labour, Italy: The priorities of the Italian presidency

*to be confirmed