Social dialogue capacity building at sectoral and company level in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, and Slovakia

Workshop on social dialogue capacity building at sectoral and company level in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, and Slovakia - 4 & 5 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary

Venue: Radisson SAS Béke Hotel, Teréz krt. 43, 1067 Budapest, Hungary

Programme

Day 1, Day 2

Day 1: Thursday 4 May 2006

09:00Registration

Chair:Isabella Biletta, European Foundation, Dublin

09:30Welcome and objectives of the seminar
Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation, Dublin [presentation, pdf, 369KB]

10.00Commission perspective on sectoral social dialogue approach
Anneli Sillanpää, DG Employment and Social Affairs, Brussels [presentation, pdf, 406KB]

10:30 National level perspective: comparative overview on social dialogue capacity building at national level in the EU10 and in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey
Joachim Hülsmann, Association for Social Security Policy and Research (GVG), Köln [presentation, pdf, 312KB]

Discussion

11:30Coffee

11:45 National working groups: organizational, financial and skills capacities for building social dialogue at sectoral and company level

• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia

• Discussion and finalisation of the national reports

13:00Lunch

14:00 Panel: Presentations on capacities for social dialogue at sectoral and company level

• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia

• Discussion

15:00Coffee

15:15 ILO’s perspective on social dialogue at sectoral and company level
Ludek Rychly, ILO, Geneva [presentation, pdf, 200KB]

Discussion

16.15 National working groups: strengths and weaknesses of social dialogue capacities for managing change at sectoral and company level

• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia

• Group discussions in five national groups

17:30 Panel: presentations on strengths and weaknesses of social dialogue capacities

• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia

• Discussion

18.30End of the day

20:00Working dinner

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Day 2: Friday, 5 May 2006

Chair: Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation, Dublin

09:00 ETUC, UNICE and UAPME joint project on social dialogue capacity building
Matthew Higham, UNICE [presentation, pdf, 1503KB]

09:30National working groups: building social dialogue capacities

• Group discussions in five national groups:

• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia

11:00Coffee

11:10 Panel: presentations on Building social dialogue at sectoral and company level

• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia

• Discussion

12.15 Future work

Discussion

13:00Concluding remarks and closing of workshop
Timo Kauppinen and Isabella Biletta, European Foundation.