Industrial relations and social dialogue
Betrokkenheid van de sociale partners bij de beleidsvorming tijdens de COVID-19-uitbraak
Published:
09 March 2021
Research report
Abstract
Eurofound volgt sinds 2016 de betrokkenheid van nationale sociale partners bij de beleidsvorming in het kader van de cyclus van het Europees Semester op de voet. In 2020 lag de nadruk op hun betrokkenheid tijdens de eerste maanden van de COVID-19-uitbraak. Hoewel de pandemie een enorme uitdaging voor de sociale dialoog vormt, blijkt uit de resultaten van de analyse hoe de sociale dialoog een doeltreffend instrument kan zijn bij het vormgeven van beleidsinitiatieven en het vinden van oplossingen voor noodsituaties die bedrijven, werknemers, de economie en de samenleving treffen. Het is duidelijk dat de deelname van de sociale partners aan de opzet en de uitvoering van de nationale plannen voor herstel en veerkracht in 2021 van cruciaal belang zal zijn voor het herstelproces en het versterken van de sociale dialoog in de toekomst.
Key findings
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged national social dialogue and impacted on the existing frameworks and practices for the involvement of social partners in policymaking.
Time pressure in terms of consultation and engagement during this period is considered to be the main issue in the quality of social dialogue and, as a result, the involvement of social partners.
In general, social partners recognise the exceptional circumstances and constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted the standard involvement frameworks and institutions in place; however, social partners take the view that the majority of governments could have done much better in this area.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that, where tripartite social dialogue is well established and permanent, the impact of the health crisis on the involvement of the social partners has been relatively limited.
By contrast, in many other countries, although social dialogue remained in place, it was severely restricted. In this regard, the health crisis has revealed the structural weaknesses of the social dialogue foundation in some industrial relations systems.
List of tables
- Table 1: Extraordinary powers adopted to control the pandemic in Member States
- Table 2: Satisfaction in the involvement of the social partners in policymaking during the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak
- Table 3: Number of selected measures by category
- Table 4: Income protection beyond short-time work – Views of social partners
- Table 5: Employment protection and retention – Views of social partners
- Table 6: Supporting business to stay afloat – Views of social partners
- Table 7: Degree of satisfaction with the appropriateness of the institutional settings for effective involvement
- Table 8: Time allotted for consultation
- Table 9: Feedback and exchange of views
- Table 10: Visibility of social partners’ views
- Table 11: Quality of the processes for social partners’ involvement in NRPs
- Table 12: Degree of influence of the social partners’ views on 2020 NRPs
- Table 13: Social partners’ views regarding the social and labour contents of 2020 NRPs
- Table 14: Social partners’ views regarding the social and labour contents of 2020 CSRs
Figure
- Figure 1: Form of involvement of social partners in the design of policy measures to cushion the socioeconomic impact of the crisis (%)
- Number of pages
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58
- Reference nº
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EF20035
- ISBN
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978-92-897-2161-5
- Catalogue nº
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TJ-02-21-103-EN-N
- DOI
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10.2806/993157
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Cite this publication
Eurofound (2021), Involvement of social partners in policymaking during the COVID-19 outbreak, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
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