Association of Slovak Workers | Association of Workers of Slovakia | Slovak Workers Association | Union of Slovak Workers | AWS [Abbr.] | ZRS [Abbr.]

Alberta College of Social Workers [ ACSW | Alberta Association of Registered Social Workers | Alberta Association of Social Workers ]

employee organization [ employee association | workers' organization | organization of employees | organization representative of workers ]

employees' federation | workers' union

workers'union

Association of Social Service Employees of the Province of Quebec [ Association of Medical Social Service Workers of the Province of Quebec ]

labour club

seven conventions on human rights, including prohibition of genocide and torture, protection of the rights of children, elimination of discrimination against women and minorities', protection of freedom of expression and association, the right to a fair trial, and judicial independence, as well as economic, social and cultural rights; eight fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), including conventions prohibiting forced and child labour, ensuring workers' rights to freedom of association and collectively organise and bargain, and two conventions that protect workers from discrimination at work, and ensure ...[+++] that women and men receive the same remuneration for work of equal value; eight conventions on environmental protection and climate change, including monitoring of hazardous waste and harmful pollutants, safeguarding of biodiversity and endangered species, as well as UN commitments to tackle climate change; four conventions on good governance, namely the UN Convention against Corruption and three UN conventions seeking to control illegal drugs.

35. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to involve social partners, in accordance with national practises, in a process of developing and modernising social protection and to develop the social dialogue at EU and national level; calls also on social partners to place issues linked to the labour rights and social protection of self-employed workers on the agenda, in order to introduce adequate social protection framework provisions for the self-employed, based on reciprocity and the principle of non-discrimination, and analyse if and how self-employed workers should be included in collective bargaining, including specific strategies on how to include the concerns of self-employed workers in cases where national law ...[+++]does not allow for trade union representation of self-employed workers; encourages social partners to exchange good practices among trade unions and professional associations on services provided to the self-employed, fighting bogus self-employment, and organising own-account self-employed workers;

36. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to involve social partners, in accordance with national practises, in a process of developing and modernising social protection and to develop the social dialogue at EU and national level; calls also on social partners to place issues linked to the labour rights and social protection of self-employed workers on the agenda, in order to introduce adequate social protection framework provisions for the self-employed, based on reciprocity and the principle of non-discrimination, and analyse if and how self-employed workers should be included in collective bargaining, including specific strategies on how to include the concerns of self-employed workers in cases where national law ...[+++]does not allow for trade union representation of self-employed workers; encourages social partners to exchange good practices among trade unions and professional associations on services provided to the self-employed, fighting bogus self-employment, and organising own-account self-employed workers;

P. whereas, as regards representation of employees, the reference to Directive 2009/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees (Recast) should be strengthened in order to make clear that the procedural rules under that Directive apply; whereas, furthermore, there should be greater sanctions on infringements, for instance by making the registration of an FE conditional on fulfilment of the requirements under Directive 2009/38/EC, in line with Article 11(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1435/2003 of 22 July 2003 on the Statute ...[+++]for a European Cooperative Society (SCE) ; whereas, beyond this, provisions are necessary regarding the involvement of employees in the bodies of an FE, in line with Council Directive 2001/86/EC of 8 October 2001 supplementing the Statute for a European company with regard to the involvement of employees , so that the form of an FE cannot be misused for the purpose of depriving employees of rights to employee involvement or withholding such rights;