Review of the EU sectoral social dialogue
Article published in Voice of the Workers Weekly
As announced in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, adopted last March, the European Commission has recently initiated a review of the EU sectoral social dialogue.
The review, which will be presented in 2022, is part of the initiative to support social dialogue at the EU and national levels. The review aims to support the EU sectoral social dialogue to better embrace challenges in the world of work, such as digitalisation and new forms of work.
Meaningful social partner involvement in the EU sectoral social dialogue aims to foster quality recommendations to policy makers on:
- the strategic importance for the social
partners’ organisations to contribute to policy-making;
- the most effective
ways to contribute to EU policy-making;
- the key factors to
further improve the involvement of social partners in EU policy-making.
European social dialogue refers to
discussions, consultations, negotiations and joint actions involving
organisations representing the two sides of industry - employers and workers.
It takes two main forms:
- a tripartite dialogue involving the
public authorities;
- a bipartite
dialogue between the European employers and trade union organisations.
This takes please at cross-industry level and within sectoral
social dialogue committees.