In a letter sent to the European Commission, 23 employers’ organisations and 6 European trade union federations have urged it to abandon its plans to change the rules governing the financing of sectoral social dialogue. The Commission “wants the social partners to use existing budgets linked to project-based financing to fund social dialogue”, explains Isabelle Barthès, Deputy General Secretary of industriAll Europe. “It represents, especially for the smallest organisations, a huge administrative burden and creates a great deal of uncertainty”. The signatories stress the contradiction apparent in the policies of a Commission which, on the one hand, explains that “social dialogue has never been so crucial”, yet on the other hand, is reducing its political and financial support.
European Sectoral Social Partners : letter to the European Commission – Review of the rules on the financing of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committees
Date of publication
8 February 2023
Available language
English
Country/countries concerned
European Union
Categories
European sectoral social dialogue
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