The Global Deal is excited to announce its third webinar series scheduled from October 2024 through February 2025. These webinars will delve into the significant contributions of social dialogue in four key areas, highlighting its impact in diverse contexts:
• Paris 2024 Social Chart for economically and socially responsible Olympic Games
• Supporting social dialogue institutions to address labour market challenges: key findings from a Global Deal project funded by the European Commission
• Social dialogue for better occupational safety and health
• Social dialogue and living wages
• Cross-border social dialogue
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Webinar one - Paris 2024 Social Charter for economically and socially responsible Olympic Games Organising the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Olympics) has implications beyond the world of sports. It involves building infrastructure, procuring a range of goods and services, ensuring additional service provision – all of which represent opportunities and challenges for local economic and social development. To promote positive socio-economic change, social partners in France signed the Paris 2024 Social Charter on 19 June 2018 to ensure the Olympics would have a lasting social and economic impact. Six years later, social partners achieved significant targets in terms of job creation and workers formalisation. Importantly, the number of workplace accidents on the Olympic construction sites was drastically reduced compared to the overall rate of workplace accidents in France. The bipartite Social Charter Committee that was created in 2019 to oversee implementation of the charter played a major role in these achievements.
This webinar will be an opportunity to discuss achievements after the Olympics with the co-presidents of the Social Charter Committee, Bernard Thibault and Dominique Carlac’h, focusing on how social dialogue has ensured that the Olympics lead to sustainable socio-economic development and the needs of vulnerable groups of workers are addressed. Further, the ILO will highlight how it has supported its tripartite constituents in France during this journey.
24 October 2024 |
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Webinar two - Supporting social dialogue institutions to address labour market challenges: key findings from a Global Deal project funded by the European Commission In 2022, the Global Deal partnered with the European Commission (EC)/DG Employment to strengthen social dialogue in countries that are committed to addressing labour market challenges and strengthening decent work through social dialogue. This is in strong alignment with the EC Communication on decent work worldwide for a global just transition and sustainable recovery. In a first phase, that ran from 2022-2024, the Global Deal provided support to national tripartite social dialogue institutions in Kenya, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. To showcase achievements and outcomes of the project, a synthesis report was published in July 2024. At the end of 2024, the second phase of the project will be launched adopting a similar approach and targeting tripartite national social dialogue institutions in India, Guatemala and Peru.
During the webinar, main findings and outcomes as outlined in the synthesis report will be presented and one representative from each country of phase 1 will be invited to share their experiences. This will also be an opportunity for representatives from Guatemala, India and Peru to learn about the project and benefit from previous learnings.
6 November 2024 |
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Webinar three - Social dialogue for better occupational safety and healthㅤㅤ Job quality is under strain globally. The total number of fatal and non-fatal work injuries as well as work-related diseases has been on the rise – for example, between 2000 and 2019 work-related deaths increased by 12%. Additionally, heat stress is increasingly affecting workers worldwide. Social dialogue and employers’ and workers’ organisations are crucial in shaping working conditions, including occupational safety and health standards. As such, social partners stand to play a key role through the negotiation of collective agreements at sectoral or firm-level, through participation in representative institutions at the workplace or through advocacy efforts and participation in tripartite negotiations to design policies and laws.
During the webinar, experts from ILO and OECD will focus on recent findings regarding occupational safety and health risks (for example heat stress). In addition, the Global Deal’s most recent partner, Institut pour une culture de sécurité industrielle (ICSI), will provide highlights from its recent focus group on social dialogue and security at work, and present relevant findings from its recent publications.
18 December 2024 > Watch the replay |
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Webinar four - Social dialogue and living wages Building on the Global Deal’s focus group on Social dialogue and living wages in 2022 and the subsequent publication of the thematic brief on the same topic, this webinar will provide an update and focus on the recent ILO Meeting of Expert’s conclusions on wage policies, including living wages. For the first time, the ILO Governing Body has endorsed a definition of living wage levels underlining principles and processes that tripartite partners should use to determine living wages. Social dialogue lies at the heart of this process. During the webinar, an ILO expert will present main outcomes of the ILO Meeting of Experts held in February 2024 and explain the key role of social dialogue in the setting of living wages. Further, Global Deal partners will be invited to share their recent experiences on the topic. 22 January 2025 |
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Webinar five - Cross-border social dialogue In recent decades, cross-border social dialogue between governments, workers and employers or their representatives has become increasingly prominent in response to globalization and regional integration.
Cross-border social dialogue can take various forms. It may originate in different contexts (such as multilateral instruments, regional economic communities, trade agreements, interregional groupings, enterprises), take place within various processes (such as bipartite/tripartite mechanisms for negotiation, consultation, information exchange and conflict resolution) and may generate different outcomes (such as joint declarations, codes of practice, agreements, conclusions, platforms of exchange). To have a comprehensive overview of relevant agreements, the ILO recently launched a database on cross-border social dialogue.
This webinar will feature a presentation of the recently established ILO Repository of Knowledge on Cross-border Social Dialogue. Further, the event will provide a space for discussing the role of social dialogue beyond national borders in promoting decent work and sound labour-management relations, including how it can contribute to effective due diligence processes.
27 February 2025 |
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