Digitalization Trends and Collective Bargaining in Partner Countries
Historical trends and developments in digital transformation indicate a need for training initiatives to address labor shortage and low digital skills. National frameworks are being established to guide digitalization, with social partners playing a crucial role in implementing agreements and ensuring worker rights during the digital age.
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Main trends and preliminary conclusions from the desk researches in the partner countries of the project Lyuboslav Kostov, Director of the Institute for Social and Trade Union Research at CITUB
Historical Trends and Development of Digital transformation in partner countries Labour shortage along with low level of digital skills development are reported by some countries. Training initiatives (re-skilling and up-skilling) are highly required and education systems should develop. Nevertheless countries have increased their efforts to boost the digital transformation process. ICT sector has actually seen strong growth. Digitalization processes still lag in SMEs. Thus it is important to ensure all SMEs are well informed on the available digital projects/programs and funding opportunities. Telework is becoming more wide spread. Certain efforts are already registered (like stakeholder consultations for the constitution of legislation that would regulate teleworking in Cyprus). However more attention should be paid to possible negative impacts to the workers (issues relating to the employee s health and safety, the right to disconnect, the right of not being monitored and etc.).
National framework of digitalization and collective bargaining National planning is taking place within the observed countries. Strategies, acts and programs, along with funding opportunities, are being developed so that digitalization can evolve within the public and private sector. Taking into consideration the scope of collective bargaining (both in terms of coverage and negotiated topics), digital transformation should be necessarily guided through different legislative instruments. Trade unions should take part in the regulation process by all possible means of interaction. Participation in tripartite/bipartite bodies in addition to the negotiations of the collective agreements is widely recognized as the way forward to regulate digital transformation. consultative
The role or social partners The pace of implementing Framework agreement on Digitalization might differ between countries. While some social partners have already set an action plan for the implementation (Estonia), others will have to develop their own policies and activities towards the Agreement. Countries where no action plan towards the Agreement is developed yet, are expected to achieve full implementation within different time periods. Some issues appear to be quite new to the social partners. Out of the four pillars of the Agreement, greatest attention so far has been paid to digital skills and Artificial intelligence . The other two pillars have not been addressed in full yet. main issues of the
The role or social partners Social dialogue needs to incorporate new elements and stay accountable to workers during the digital transformation of the world of work. Both employers representatives should develop their capacity in order to negotiate a more extensive range of issues. The main focus of the unions should be safeguarding workers employability and rights in digital age. Collective agreements need to be extended to broader topics (for example: pay issues, related mainly to mandatory introduced telework, training schemes, right to disconnect, work- life balance, safeguarding employment and etc.). and workers
