SOCIAL POLICY in the EU

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SOCIAL POLICY in the EU
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Social Policy

• Labor Market regulation
• Human protection care
• ( conditions of life housing, education etc.)

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SOCIAL UNION ?

• Constrains
  Political
  Economic
• Traditions

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Common rules for a Single Internal Market

• Employment
• Protection of health and safety on a workplace

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Tradition of 4 social models

• Liberal (UK, IRL)
• Conservative (D, Fr, B,)
• Social democratic (Scandinavian)
• Communistic (CPE)

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Bottom limits

• Respecting national approach
• for harmonization of social systems and social
  legistation

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European Charter of Social Rights

• 1961 Council of Europe
• Examples
• right to work
• right for reasonable working conditions
• right to organizing and bargain etc.

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Social dimension of the Internal Market -danger
of social dumping ?

• Community Charter of Fundamental Rigths
• of Employees ( 1989 )
• Right to work in EC member state of ones choice
• Freedome to choose occupation and right for a
  fair wage
• Right to improve living and working conditions
• Right for social protection under the national
  systems

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Community Charter of Fundamental Rigths of
Employees - continue

• 5. Right for for getting organized (in trade
  unions) and right for collective bargaining
• 6. Right for vocational training
• 7. Right of men and women for an equal treatment
• 8. Right of employees for information,
  consultation and participation (in a company
  corporate governance)

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Community Charter of Fundamental Rigths of
Employees - continue

• 9. Right for health protection and safety at a
• workplace
• 10. Protection of children and adolescents
• 11. Decent standard of living for old people
• 12 Improved social and professional
• integration of disabled people

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Social Carter - continue

• Signed and approved by 11 countries only
• Not by the UK under M. Tchatcher
• (practical solution 2 new articles were added
  to the Treaty of Rome and accompanied protocol)
• 1996 election Labour Party victory
• 1997 UK accepted

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Dvelopment - continue

• Amsterdam Treaty (CT)
• Social policy is a conditional for economic
  integration
• Active employment policy (Luxermburg Summit 1997)
  re-qualification programs flexibility of
  labour
• Added internationalisation of education
• Lisbon 2000 Knowledge - based Society and
  economy

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European social model

• Efficiency
• competitiveness
• development in a social area

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Europeans company status
X SMEAs