MODELO SOCIAL EUROPEU, BRUXELAS

(Faber)

O contributo da minha colega Maria Pilar González e meu para a obra que a Organização Internacional do Trabalho (em colaboração com a Comissão Europeia) tem vindo a preparar sobre os efeitos da crise e das políticas de austeridade nas formas que o Modelo Social Europeu reveste em cada país vai fazendo a sua progressão com vista à sua publicação pela Edward Elgar, o que é uma honra.

Entretanto, já está disponível o programa indicativo da grande conferência sobre o tema que a OIT em colaboração com a CE organizará dias 27 e 28 de fevereiro próximo, em Bruxelas. Caberá à Pilar a apresentação nos escassos 7 a 10 minutos disponíveis para cada um dos autores do estudo de caso sobre os efeitos na classe média que integra o nosso contributo, bem mais vasto do que esse estudo de caso. Lá estarei e disso darei conta neste blogue. Para aguçar o apetite, apresento de seguida o referido programa.

The European Social Model in times of Economic Crisis and Austerity Policies – 

Developments, effects and policy issues

Draft Agenda (29 January)

Brussels, 27-28 February 2014 

Brussels, Crowne Plaza Rogier, Vision room

Organized by the International Labour Office in cooperation

with the European Commission

Thursday, 27 February

08:30 - 09:30                        Registration

09:30 - 10:00            Opening (Chair: Manuela Tomei, Director, Conditions of Work and Equality Department, ILO)

-         Philippe Marcadent, Chief, Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch, ILO

-         Andrew Chapman, Deputy head of Social Dialogue Unit, DG Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission

10:00 - 10:40            What recent changes in the European Social Model and their effects?

(Presentation of the project and its main findings)

-         Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch, ILO (INWORK)

Discussion

10:40 - 11:00                        Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30                        Session 1: Trends in workers’ rights and working conditions:

Why is the European Social Model being changed in the crisis?                                 

                                    General introduction from the Chair

Case study 1: Rapid changes in workers’ rights and working conditions to face crisis’ conditions in Greece Maria Karamessini

Case study 2: Shifting from ‘liberal collectivism’ to ‘market society’ in the United Kingdom? Damian Grimshaw

Case study 3: Germany: Could European Social Model elements serve as a leverage in times of crisis? Gerhard  Bosch

                                   

Perspectives of employers’ and workers’ representatives

-         Employers

-         Trade unions

                                    Discussion

12:30 - 14:00                        Lunch

14:00 - 15:30                        Session 2: Trends in social protection and labour market:

 What effects on social cohesion, employment and economic growth?

                                    General introduction from the Chair         

Case study 1: Social protection changes in Italy: What effects on social cohesion? Annamaria Simonazzi

Case study 2: Outcomes of extensive labour market reforms in Hungary Dorottya Szikra

Case study 3: Swedish social model resilience to the crisis Dominique Anxo

Case study 4: Welfare state reforms in Portugal: What effects on the middle class? Pilar González

                                   

Perspectives of employers’ and workers’ representatives

-         Employers

-         Trade unions 

Discussion

15:30 - 15:50                        Coffee break

                       

15:50 - 17:30            Session 3: The role of social dialogue in the changes in the European Social Model: Does it make a difference?

                                    General introduction from the chair         

Case study 1: Social reforms and social dialogue: Examples from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Jaan Masso

Case study 2: Revitalizing social dialogue in France Jérôme Gautié

Case study 3: Reforms of collective bargaining and their effects in Spain Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo

                                    Perspectives of employers’ and workers’ representatives

-         Employers

-         Trade unions

Discussion

Friday, 28 February

08:45 – 09:00           Synthesis of previous day debates (Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead)

09:00 – 11:30           The future of the European Social Model: What should be changed, kept, brought back?

Round Table of Ministers of Labour

Introduction and Chairperson: Guy Ryder, Director General, ILO

                                    Discussion

11:30 – 11:45           Coffee break

11:45 – 13:00           The role of social dialogue in shaping the European Social Model Round table of European social partners

                                    With the participation of:

-      Markus J. Beyrer, Director General, BUSINESS EUROPE

-      Valeria Ronzitti, General Secretary, Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public services (CEEP)

-         Peter Faross, Secretary General, European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (UEAPME)

-      Bernadette Ségol, General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

                                    International social partners’ points of views:

The future of the European Social Model from a Global Perspective

-         Brent Wilton, Secretary-General, International Organisation of Employers (IOE)

-         Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

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13:00 – 13:30                       Conclusions and Prospects

Chair: Jean-Paul Tricart, Head of Social Dialogue Unit, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission

-         László Andor, Commissioner, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission

-         Guy Ryder, Director-General, ILO

13:30                          Lunch