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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations          Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                  Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online


EIRO Thematic Feature

Social partner involvement in the 2002/2003 National Action Plans [20 April 2005]
http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/other_reports/ef04144en.pdf

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This article provides an overview of the role of the social partners in the definition, implementation and evaluation
phases of the 2002 and 2003 National Action Plans (NAPs) on employment in the EU15.

It aims to give both a historical and comparative analysis of the degree and quality of involvement of the social partners
in defining the national employment policy and their contribution to developments in the two years specified. The article
also focuses on the procedural, implementation and evaluation aspects, and considers matters of policy content, before
addressing the nature and scope of collective bargaining at different levels.

Background information for the article was provided by the EIRO national centres in each of the EU15 Member States,
in response to a detailed questionnaire submitted during the three-month period May to June in 2002 and again in 2003.
Since data from this feature stem from the years 2002 and 2003, the analysis is limited to the EU15. The situation in the
new Member States (NMS) could not, unfortunately, be taken into account.

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