Eurofound’s work supporting the social partners

1. Eurofound’s work supporting the social partners Erika Mezger, Deputy Director 10 April, 2013 European Chemical Industry Social Partners Conference “Contribution of the chemical industry and pharmaceutical sector to the economic and social development in Europe”

2. Eurofound’s work supporting the social partners

3. In this presentation • Overview: Eurofound’s mission, objective, areas of expertise • Monitoring activities • Eurofound’s surveys • Eurofound’s observatories • Exploring and assessing policies and practices • Catering to your needs: tailor-made research and support

4. Overview

5. What is Eurofound? A tripartite European agency Carrying out comparative socio-economic research Budget of EUR 20.7m (2013) 115 people in Dublin and in Brussels Established in 1975

6. Missionand objective Mission Eurofound’s mission is to provide knowledge to assist the development of social and work-related policies Strategic objective 2013 - 2016 Eurofound will provide high quality, timely and policy relevant knowledge as input to better informed policies in four priority areas

7. Core areas of expertise • Working conditions • Living conditions • Structural change and restructuring • Industrial relations and collective bargaining

8. Main activities

9. Monitoring tools

10. Monitoring activities

11. Survey Mapping Tool (SMT) • Available for • ECS 2009 • EWCS 2010 • EQLS 2012 • Available in 26 languages

12. SMT – How does it work?

13. Example from the European Quality of Life Survey 2012 How many hours per week would you prefer to work? Reply: I would want to work more

14. Analysing European data sets: The EWCS • Further analysis • Trends in job quality in Europe • Sustainable work and the ageing workforce • Working time and work life balance in a life course perspective • Employment relations and working conditions • Health and well being • Work organisation and employee involvement • Sector analysis

15. Eurofound Observatories

16. Main activities: monitoring • Information updates • ERM restructuring cases • Country survey reports • Industrial relations country profiles • Network of European Observatories (NEO) • ‘Correspondents’ in EU 27 + Norway (research institutes, often consortia) • Under 4-year contract with Eurofound • Scheduled services and additional, ad-hoc services • Covering: • industrial relations • working conditions • restructuring Comparative Analytical Reports (based on a questionnaire) Representativeness Studies

17. Using monitoring tools Eurofound Observatories – a wealth of comparative information • Updates on pay developments • Updates on working time developments • Updates on industrial relations and working conditions developments • Thematic comparative analytical reports (examples): • Social partners’ involvement in unemployment benefit regimes in Europe • Use of alcohol and drugs at the workplace • Representativeness studies

18. Using monitoring tools Focus 2013: Wage-setting and pay • Pay developments in the 21st Century • Development of collective agreed pay 2000 – 2011(based on annual updates) • Data on development of actual pay 2000-2011 • Developments in national statutory minimum wage 2000-2011 • ‘Accounting exercise’: workers falling below a threshold of 60% of median national wage • Changes in wage-setting mechanisms in the context of the crisis and new economic governance

19. Pay developments Average collectively agreed pay increase, in real terms, based on collective agreements databases, 2010 and 2011 (%)

20. Working time developments Statutory minimum annual paid leave (in days), 2011 22 25 21-24 20

21. IR and working conditions developments Clustering of reported collective bargaining developments in 2011

22. New comparative work in 2013 The role of social dialogue in industrial policies • Provide an overview of the roles of different actors in the shaping of industrial policy and their positions • Provide an overview of concrete outcomes of social dialogue in relation to industrial policy • Explore possible link between industrial policy at cross-sectoral level and social dialogue and collective bargaining at sectoral level • Publication: December 2013

23. Exploring and assessing policies and practices

24. Flexicurity • Investigates the implementation of flexicurity across the European Union • Analyses a large number of public and social partner-based instruments that combine an element of flexibility and security • Contributes to making the ambiguous concept of flexicurity more tangible • Provides numerous examples of how flexicurity can be realised

25. Greening the European Economy Level of engagement and mobilisation by national governments and social partners

26. Tailor-made research and support

27. What if you can’t find what you need? • Informal information request • Customised report service • Time-off provisions for employee representatives in Europe • Wage indexation in the European Union • Stakeholder enquiry service • Liability in subcontracting processes in the European construction sector • Improving quality of work: Scenarios for strategies of social partners’ cooperation in the hairdressing sector (ongoing)

28. For more information, please visit: www.eurofound.europa.eu