Documents framework agreement 209 results

"On 26 April 2007, the European social partners BUSINESSEUROPE, UEAPME, CEEP and ETUC signed an autonomous framework agreement on violence and harassment at work which requires that the member federations of signatory parties cooperate on the improvement of working conditions by establishing and promoting mechanisms to identify, prevent and manage problems of harassment and violence occurring at the workplace. This study and annexes provide an assessment of the implementation of the agreement at national level, while taking into account the procedures and practices specific to management and labour in each country, as well as information on the extent of the phenomenon across Europe."

"The essay focuses on the relationship between the different forms of workers' representation in transnational companies, taking the negotiation of European Framework Agreements as a privileged point of observation. The analysis highlights the consequences of this complex relationship in terms of both political impacts and legal effects of the agreements. It continues by investigating the possible solutions fostered by the recast of the Ewc directive 2009/38/Ec, by the several proposals for an optional framework of rules for transnational negotiation and by the internal procedure for negotiation adopted by IndustriAll."

"This article investigates the factors that explicate the implementation of European social partner ‘soft' framework agreements. The implementation of two such agreements, the Telework and Work-Related Stress Agreements, in four countries and two sectors is investigated. Seven hypotheses, primarily derived from the study of generic European ‘soft' law, about the factors that explain the implementation of European social partner ‘soft' law are tested. The article concludes that European social partner ‘soft' law is distinctive from generic European ‘soft' law in that its successful implementation is contingent upon the extent the industrial relations system in which it is implemented is centralized and co-ordinated."

"This report examines the differences in alignment, timing and content of workplace information and consultation processes at national and European level. It compares the legal situation at national and European level in six EU Member States: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. It finds that the provisions of the EU directive governing the operation of European Works Councils are ambiguous about the order in which information and consultation processes should happen at each level. It also highlights the fact that EU Member States have interpreted the directive in different ways when transposing it into national law. The report concludes with a number of pragmatic guidelines as to how this issue might be resolved."

" While the European intersectoral social dialogue has been, according to the Commission's own admission, dragging its feet for the last few years on account of a lack of commitment on the part of the private sector employers, the sectoral social dialogue is often presented as a more dynamic and successful venture. A dialogue along sectoral lines has been set in motion by employer and labour organisations from a current total of 43 economic sectors of the European economy (from metalworking through road transport to public services and many others).



On the strength of its data base containing more than 730 joint texts produced in the context of the sectoral social dialogue, the ETUI set out to verify this claim concerning the dynamism of this process. The findings are that the sectoral dialogue has indeed continued to spread and that it has produced, in the last few years, a large number of agreements of substance. Yet the picture is not all rosy. While the dynamism of some sectors is impressive, others, by contrast, are languishing in a state of lethargy. What is more, some member states have recently displayed reluctance to transpose social dialogue agreements implemented by means of directive, even though provision to this end is contained in the Treaty. Finally – and this feature may already be the consequence of the foregoing – the sectoral social partners have in recent years produced more ‘joint lobbying texts' addressed to the European institutions than ‘joint agreements' concluded, for example, in order to improve working conditions, training facilities, or workplace health and safety provision. "