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Polska Konfederacja Pracodawców Prywatnych Lewiatan Capacity building in the ESF framework - Polish example. 2008. Background. At EU level definition of social partner refers to management (employers organizations) and labour (trade unions) – art. 138 and 139 of TEC Treaty

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  1. Polska Konfederacja Pracodawców Prywatnych Lewiatan Capacity building in the ESF framework - Polish example 2008

  2. Background • At EU level definition of social partner refers to management (employers organizations) and labour (trade unions) – art. 138 and 139 of TEC Treaty • EESC confirmed the difference between social partners and other civil society representatives (NGO) • clearly defined representativness and specific, quasi legal competences • In 2006, while discussing ESF Regulation, EC confirmed privileged position of social partners in ESF framework • enhanced participation in implementation system • specific measures for NMS

  3. Enhanced partnership • Partnership principle - a general rule for structural funds implementation systems • Enhanced partnership with social partners in the ESF framework Art. 5.3 Council Reg. 1081/2006 The Member States shall ensure the involvement of the social partners and adequate consultation and participation of other stakeholders, at the appropriate territorial level, in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of ESF support

  4. Specific measures designed for social partners • Art.5.3 Council Reg. 1081/2006 Under the Convergence objective, an appropriate amountofESF resources shall be allocated to capacity-building, whichshall include training, networking measures, strengthening thesocial dialogue and activities jointly undertaken by the socialpartners, in particular as regards adaptability of workers andenterprises referred to in Article 3(1)(a).

  5. Rationale • Lisbon Strategy and Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs 2005-2008, GL 21,22 • ESF supports creation of flexible and secure labour market (especially via training measures) • Transition toward flexicurity demands cooperation and understanding of all parties involved • It can not be done without social partners: employers organizations and trade unions • It is a challenge in countries were tradition of social dialogue and industrial relations is relatively weak • By providing support for social partners in NMS, EU tries to involve them in restructurization of labour market

  6. Situation of social partners in NMS • No close relations with national and regional governments… • …or relations depend on a given government attitude - clear and transparent procedures often replaced by different practices of different institutions (could be best or worst ones); • Scarce financial and administrative resources • Scarce „in house” expertise

  7. Art. 5.3 implementation in Poland Short recapitulation: • …an appropriate amount of money… • …on capacity building… • …of the social partners…

  8. Who are social partners? • Our starting point: • „Social Partner” refers to any representative of civil society – providing support for NGOs is sufficient implementation of art. 5.3 of ESF Regulation • Labour and Management can not play any specific role in ESF programming and implementation – what about „other NGOs”? • Final results: • It took 8 months to convince Polish Managing Authorities of the difference between NGOs and the Social Partners • Social partner definition in ESF funded OP is in line with EU definition and refers to Labour and Management • Development of the social dialogue and support for SP became one of the horizontal goals of Human Capital OP

  9. What amount of money is appropriate? In a first draft of ESF regulation 2% of ESF allocation was mentioned which was changed later by Council to „appropriate amount” • Our starting point: • Money in each and every measure can be awarded to the social partners, no specific support is necessary • 20 m Euro, NGOs can’t get less - social partners are fewer • Final results: • We negotiated for 6 months and ended up with 1% of ESF budget, equal to 100 m Euro, allocated to support social partners • We agreed with EC that allocation might be increased if proved necessary

  10. What is capacity bulding? • Our starting point: • Different types of trainings and courses to help SP to participate in the process of agreeing of public policies • Support for tripartite instruments and social dialogue, no sufficient recognition of necessity for strengthening bipartite dialogue • Final results: • Under capacity building both tripartite and autonomous dialogue should be developed • Measures designed cover wide range of activities but there might be some problems while qualifying projects

  11. Two measures provide support for social partners in Human Capital OP • Projects on adaptability of workers and enterprises • Wide scope of actions possible: training measures for members, researches, promotion and information on new forms of work organization (telework), working time, flexibility • Acces restricted to representative organizations, member of Tripartite Commission • Projects strengthening social dialogue and capacities of social partners • Learning projects to enhance SP expertise and ability to participate in tripartite and bipartite concertation also at the European level (training measures for Lewiatan’s employees • Information campaigns on the social dialogue • Programs to develop new information/ management systems • Programs to strengthen organization’s presence at EU level

  12. Milestones • Joint action by the Tripartite Commission – opinion presented to the relevant Ministries arguing the difference between social and civic dialogue • Presentation of the Polish social partners position in the ESF Committee in Brussels • Opinions underpinned by EU legal and strategic documents, i.e. ECSC official position paper on representativeness of civil society institutions, Commission discussion paper to ESF Committee, etc. • In total it took us 14 months to get solutions we wanted

  13. Challenges ahead • Capacity building projects that will effectively and permanently strengthen regional organizations and social dialogue • Projects in adaptability section that will properly answer present challenges at the labour market (qualification and competences gap, little interest in LLL) • Actions to prepare regional organizations to take full advantage of the partnership principle: networking in Monitoring Committees, training and day-to day support, best practice dissemination, joint activities

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