Working Group 5
Introduction
The EaP CSF Working Group “Social & Labour Policies and Social Dialogue” was set up at the fourth CSF meeting in Stockholm in November 2012. It is the only Working Group of the Forum not modelled after a Platform of the multilateral track of the EaP, although members of the working group advocate for the setting up of a Platform 5 focusing on social policy and employment within the EaP or – if this should not be possible – for the establishment of a sub-platform under the existing Platform 2 (Economic integration and convergence with EU policies) focusing on social and employment trends.
Goals of the Working Group
The Working Group focuses on:
- social policy
- labour markets
- social rights
- social dialogue
- social and economic issues pertinent to the EaP countries
- promotion of European Norms and International Standards as defined by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European Social Charter and the International Labour Organisation
- raising awareness of the civil society in EaP countries about social dialogue and its implementation in the EU countries
Coordinators
Goda Neverauskaite, European Trade Union Confederation | wg5@eap-csf.eu
Raisa Liparteliani, Georgian Trade Unions Confederation| wg5@eap-csf.eu
2017 Projects
- The impact of social dialogue on the optimization of labor migration in Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine (Labour Institute, Moldova)
- Step forward to social services decentralization in Eastern Partnership countries (Research-Intellectual Club “Dialogue of Generations”, Georgia)