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SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN CROATIACROATIA

SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN CROATIACROATIA


WHO ARE THE SOCIAL PARTNERS IN THE ESC?

TRADE UNION CENTERS

EKN


Before the approval of the Labour Code 1996 negotiations were held with the Croatian Chamber of economics and with the Croatian Chamber of Industry.

Currently: the largest employers’ organisation, the Employers Organisation of Croatia, but there are other ones, like The Organisation of Employers in the Wood- and Paper Industry or the Independent Organisation of Employers and others

EOC – never allowed the publication of its membership list

Declares to have 5000 employers as members with around 300 000 workers.

WHO ARE THE SOCIAL PARTNERS IN THE ESC? EMPLOYERS


• ministries• central state agencies• agencies

WHO ARE THE SOCIAL PARTNERS IN THE ESC?

THE GOVERNMENT


ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Background and objectives:

• To contribute to the welfare and social safety of the society. Through the dialogue, the social partners A consult on, develop and protect the economic and social interests.

• The ECS works on the basis of mutual trust, professional skills, the respect for diversity and a consequent and responsible enforcement of the agreements.


THE OPERATION OF THE ESCNATIONAL ECS18 MEMBERS

ESC COORDINATION

COMMITTEESWORKING

GROUPS

• president, vicw-president, head of the social partnership buro• consultative meetings (on weekly basis)

• trilateral bodies • ad hoc trilateral groups on the basis of a special decision by the ESC


DECISION MAKING AND VOTING IN THE ESC

GOVERNMENT1 vote

EMPLOYERS1 vote

TRADE UNIONS1 vote


• Committee on wages and taxes• Committee on labour and social policy• Committee on collective bargaining

• Committee on privatisation 1• Committee on legislation, application and enforcement of law• Committee on international relations and EU accession• Committee on state budget• Committee on alternative solution of labour disputes• Committee on employment, training and labour market

conciliation• Committee on pension and health

ESC COMMITTEES (3-3 representative of the government, trade

unionsand employers)


SOCIAL PARTNERS IN OTHERBODIES(government, trade unionsand employers)

• board of the CPF• board of the CHF• Consultation body to

the Employees’ Benefit Fund

• Consultation body to the Rehabilitation and Employment of workers with disabilities Fund

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

COUNCILFUNDS OTHER BODIES

• Economic Policy council

• Demography Council

• Committee on Adult Training


THE CHROATIAN PARLIAMENT AND THE SOCIAL PARTNERS

HTV BROADCAST COUNCIL

COMMITTEES(external members)

• labour, health and social policy

• budget and financies

• economy, development and reconstruction

• legislation

NATIONAL OBSERVATION

COMMITTE ON EUNEGOTIATIONS

• working groups


SOCIAL DIALOGUE AT THE MICRO-LEVEL

ECONOMIC ENTITIES AND INSTITUTIONS

• works councils• employee

representative of the NDC, employers representative of the NDC, NDC committees

• employee representatives in the boards and supevisory boards

REGIONAL SERVICE POINTS

• consulting body

ESC AT THE COUNTY LEVEL

(20)

• employers• trade unions• local, territorial and

regional governments


SOCIAL DIALOGUE AT THE COMPANY LEVEL

Shareholders’ representa

tives

Supervisory

board

workers’ representat

ives

Board of directo

rs

NDC representat

ivesWorks council

trade unions


• Social dialogue is solid at the company level: trade unions, works councils, NDC and SB representatives

• SD is developing at the municipal level: together against black employment

• trade unions make social agreements in the restructuring process

• Forms of agreements:• CA• social partnership agreement• agreement in connection with outsourcing• privatisation agreements• agreement on the operation of the works council• agreement on the payment of employees’ benefits


COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND AGREEMENT

(DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES)

TU CONFEDERATIONSEMPLOYERS’

ORGANISATIONS

SECTORAL CA “INTERNAL”CA

• SSSH 20 sectoral unions

• NHS 36 member organisations

• URSH 45 member organisations

• MHSJS 5 member organisations

• HUS 5 member organisations

• HUP 21 member organisations

• SNUP 7 member organisations

• KHIP 5 member organisations


PROBLEMS OF THE ECS

• has a consultation role only• for the government and the employers it is a

necessary bad but not a competent body, and often avoid it completely (acts are urgently approved without a consultation with the ECS)

• serves to harm the strength of trade union actions

• parties have each 6-6 representatives• unions are represented according to their

membership strength – we had to prove our representativity, the employers did not


PROBLEMS WITH EMPLOYERS

• no specific regulation on representation• according to trade union estimates, the

EOCH covers only a relatively small rate of employees (14 – 20%)

• the EOCH has no interest in collective bargaining, it is more an advocate of trilateral negotiations and of lobbying with the government

• the EOCH is the exclusive representative of employers in the ESC


PROBLEMS WITH TRADE UNIONS

• no specific regulation on representation• lose requirements for the establishment of a

trade union confederation, therefore confederations exist which have not signed a single CA independently

• the new confederations have no democratic and developed infrastructures or territorial coverage, work with a small staff and have lower contributions, which make them more attractive for potential members

• unsatisfactory trade union and professional work of the other (con)federations, they simply try to “survive”

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