Transcript FIEC presentation

SODICO project
Kick-off meeting
12/9/2012, Ljubljana (SLO)
« Paritarian funds in construction
in Europe »
Domenico Campogrande
Director Social Affairs - FIEC
SWEDEN
NORWAY
FINLAND
DENMARK
Created in 1905
POLAND
29 countries
33 federations
Enterprises
- of all sizes
- active in all fields
of building and
civil engineering
NETHERLANDS
ESTONIA
LITHUANIA
IRELAND
CZECH REPUBLIC
GERMANY
SLOVAKIA
BELGIUM
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
FRANCE
LUXEMBOURG
EU Sectoral Social
Partner
TURKEY
SPAIN
PORTUGAL
GREECE
Full member
SWITZERLAND
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
Observer member
ITALY
CYPRUS
SLOVENIA
MALTA
BULGARIA
Construction activity in the EU
Key figures for 2011
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1.208 Bln.€
(9,6% of EU27 GDP)
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14,6 Million workers
(7% of EU27 employment)
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3,1 Million enterprises
(mostly SMEs)
The construction industry in the EU
Characteristics
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Bad image
Lack of skilled workforce
Very fragmented (mostly SMEs)
Highly labour intensive
Specific employment and working
conditions
Specific and complex production process
Social Dialogue at the EU level
General remarks
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Social Dialogue embedded in EU Treaty :
 Social
Partners must be consulted on social
policy matters (Art. 154)
 Social Partners may decide to launch
negotiations for autonomous agreements
(Art. 155)
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Autonomy of the Social Partners
Cross-sectoral <> Sectoral Social
Dialogue
Sectoral Social Dialogue
Construction
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Needs strong Social Partners in order to
be successfull
Started long before 1998 (beginning of the
EU Sectoral Social Dialogue)
2 partners : FIEC and EFBWW
Regular representativeness studies
(for construction 2012-2013)
Paritarian social funds
Aims, objectives and scope
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Specific characteristics of construction
 important role of the social partners
Exist in most Western EU Member States
Jointly managed by employers and trade
unions  bipartite approach
Tailored approach to industry’s needs
Paritarian social funds
3 main areas of competence
1.
Vocational training
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Construction = labour intensive activity
Rapidly changing patterns (globalisation,
demographic changes, « greening »,…)
Reducing the gap between the skills available
and those needed by the market
Paritarian social funds
3 main areas of competence
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Health and Safety
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Despite improvements H&S problems remain
a serious threat in construction
Prevention
Tailored training
Paritarian social funds
3 main areas of competence
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Specific pension schemes
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External factors influence construction
activity
Fragmentation of the sector 
supplementary pension schemes
Mobility of the workforce
Paritarian social funds
Past and on-going initiatives
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Promoting the development of paritarian
funds
Close collaboration with the EFBWW and
the AEIP
2 main conferences :
 Warsaw - PL (2008)
 Bucarest - RO (2010)
Paritarian social funds
Past and on-going initiatives
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« Capacity building » project (on-going)
In collaboration with the EFBWW and the
AEIP
Focuses on practical issues
« Twinning » principle :
 Poland - Spain
 Romania - France
 Bulgaria - Germany
Paritarian social funds
Past and on-going initiatives
www.paritarian-funds-construction.eu
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