COLLECTIVE RELATIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE

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COLLECTIVE RELATIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE
Seminar on Social Rights and Pensions for Civil
Servantsin some EU Member StatesJointly
organised by the Civil Service Department under
the Ministry of Interior and the Sigma
Programme 9 November 2006  Vilnius, Lithuania
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Introduction

• Basic International Regulations
• ILO Convention 151of 1978 on Protection of the
  Right to Organise and Procedures for Determining
  Employment Conditions in the Public Service
• ILO Convention 154 of 1981 on Promotion of
  Collective Bargaining
• European Social Charter of 1961

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Main Rights and how are they regulated in OECD
and EU countries

• Right to Unionisation
• Right to Strike and minimum services
• Right to Consultations or right to Negotiation?
• Collective Negotiation of salaries?

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MAIN CONCLUSIONS

• In the majority of EU and OECD countries trade
  unions play a significant role in gaining
  improvements of civil servants social rights and
  guarantees.
• In some countries collective rights
  (unionization, negotiation, and strike) are
  either forbidden or very restricted.
• Governments organize their collective
  negotiations in a variety of ways depending on
  the matters under negotiation.
• Certain matters are not under negotiation in a
  number of countries
• The legally recognized involvement of trade
  unions in setting working conditions, including
  salaries, varies from country to country,
  although the ILO sees a trend towards more
  negotiation on these matters.