Building industrial relations country profiles

Industrial relations workshop, Kranj, Slovenia, 12-13 May 2005

Day 1, Day 2

Day 1: Thursday, 12 May 2005

Chair: Eberhard Köhler, European Foundation for the Improvement for Living and Working Conditions, Dublin

09.00 Registration

09:30 Welcome remarks
Eberhard Köhler

09:40 Objectives of the seminar
Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation for the Improvement for Living and Working Conditions

10:00 Quality of industrial relations indicators and country profiles for EU 10
Sebastian Schief , IAT, Germany
Heribert Kohl, BwP, Germany
Discussion

11:00 Coffee

11:20 Industrial ielations country profiles for EU 15
Guy Van Gyes, HIVA, Belgium,
Sebastian Schief , IAT, Germany
Heribert Kohl, BwP, Germany
Comments: Fred Huijgen, Netherlands
Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Chair: Mr. Roland Waeyaert

14:00 Social dialogue country profiles, ILO world-wide project
Sophia Lawrence, ILO
Junko Ishikawa, ILO
Discussion

15.15 Coffee

15.30 Building industrial relations country profiles
What indicators are important in building industrial relations country profiles in each of the following area? Group analysis on
- Actors of industrial relations
- Processes of industrial relations
- Outputs of industrial relations
- Impacts of industrial relations

16.30 Panel discussion on the most relevant indicators of country profiles

17:00 Concluding remarks
Cees J. Vos, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, The Netherlands

17.30 Closing of seminar

20.00 Working dinner

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Day 2: Friday, 13 May 2005

Chair: Christian Welz, European Foundation for the Improvement for Living and Working Conditions, Dublin

9:00 Balance in the industrial relations
Jarmo Lähteenmaki, ETUC/KEY, Brussels
Comments: Udo Rehfeldt, France
Discussion

9:30 Objective of today’s seminar
Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation for the Improvement for Living and Working Conditions

9:40 Comparative summary of industrial relations country profiles
- Comparison of actors, processes, outcomes and impacts
- What would be the best and most illustrative way to present it?

10.30 Evaluation and finalising of national industrial relations country profiles
- Text
- Figures and tables
- Illustration of text and data on country profiles

11:00 Coffee

Chair: Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation for the Improvement for Living and Working Conditions

11:15 Panel discussion on evaluation and finalisation
Guidelines for the researchers for building country profiles and comparative summary

12:00 Industrial relations profiles and social dialogue profiles
The Foundation and ILO cooperation and exchange of information
Eberhard Köhler, European Foundation & Junko Ishikawa and Sophia Lawrence, ILO
Discussion

12.20 Development of quality indicators in the Commission
Klaus Kaeding, European Commission, DG Employment and social affairs, Brussels

12.50 Concluding session
The next steps on industrial relations country profiles

13:00 Lunch

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