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European Conference: Social and Labour Market Policies - Investing in Quality, Brussels, February 22, 2001
of IR remain national: Governments and Social Partners option evaluation may include aspects from working conditions to pay determination/ formation. Between lie employment indicators Conditions should be considered as the basic indicator of quality in IR to create and use indicators on both IR processes and outcomes.
Need
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IR
Working
Process Indicators
on working conditions: process requirements of Framework Directive (coverage of labour force and companies by workers representatives for H&S, awareness of employees and HR managers on availability of company risk assessment) on types of pay and IR regulation: individual or collective (coverage of labour force and companies by collective agreements)
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Process Indicators
on types of individual IR regulation: coverage of labour force and companies by active HRM policies (employee attitudes surveys, various types of circles quality etc.) on types of collective regulation: consultation, participation, bargaining (coverage of labour force and companies by various degrees of collective regulation) on types of behaviour in the collective regulation: consensual or conflictual (from recourse to third parties and/or third party intervention to strike activity 3 indicators)
Outcome Indicators
on working conditions (1): comparable national data on accidents at work and occupational diseases. on working conditions (2): cost of occupational accidents and diseases for companies, social security systems, national health systems
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Outcome Indicators
on pay formation (1): general wage growth and productivity growth, I.e. the distribution of productivity gains on pay formation(2): wage drift on pay formation (3): share of flexible elements in final pay (productivity bonus, merit pay, ESOPs, etc).
Data Sources
On working conditions: to build on a) European Foundation (Dublin) Surveys on Working Conditions b) Eurostat projects on accidents at work and occupational diseases. On pay and IR regulation: to build on a) Eurostat data b) Develop surveys based on national experiences (e.g. British Workplace Industrial Relations survey).