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Workshops in the project "Fair European Labour Mobility" (2022-2023)
Fair European Labour Mobility: Transnational workshop II
January 30th -February 1st 2023 | Berlin
The second transnational workshop was the first in-person-workshop since the Covid-19 pandemic. Counsellors from Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia came together in Berlin to exchange their experiences, work on cases together and discuss further action.
The first evening was all about getting to know each other better and to get into the conversation after a long time online. The next day was marked by exchange. First, Justyna Oblacewicz (Faire Mobilität and FELM) presented a method on how to structure peer counselling to make it more fruitful for all participants. Afterwards the counsellors put this method into practice and discussed, divided in two groups of sectoral experts, two cases from the counsellors of FEML: Marko Tanasić (ZSSS, Slovenia) presented a case of transport workers and Magdalena Kossakowska (OPZZ, Poland) a case of a care worker. At the same time, Michaela Dälken (DGB Bildungswerk, Germany) shared her experience on workshop methods with Bábel Balázs and Bettina Kiss (Vasas, Hungary), who are doing a lot of seminars with multipliers dealing with workers rights.
Afterwards, Bernadett Petö (Faire Mobilität and FELM) presented different strategies to support workers when counselling on the juridical level reaches its limits. She presented a case, where it was important and useful to go public. The group discussed their experiences on this and collected more strategies which might be helpful, as well as the challenges and chances of the different forms.
At the afternoon, the counsellors divided in sectoral expert groups and visited colleagues from unions and counselling centres in Berlin to talk about current developments in the metal sector and automotive industry, care and transport and to exchange on their form of support and counselling.
At the next day, Jan Cremers (Independent Expert EP and ELA) presented a new study where he analysed the EU acquis with regard to the goal of fair labour relations. We discussed examples of support projects and what needs to change to ensure this goal.
Afterwards, the group again divided in sectoral groups (metal, domestic care, transport) and discussed the major challenges and characteristics of this branches and what needs to change. With the outcome of this exchange, we want to work further on in the future.
The workshop closed at the afternoon and at the same time, the evaluation workshop started with a city tour on migration history in Berlin.
Transnational Workshop 2 DGB
Fair European Labour Mobility: Transnational workshop I
26.-27. October 2022 | online
At the first transnational workshop counsellors from the German DGB Faire Mobilität came together with counsellors from Austria, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia from the new project “Fair European Labour Mobility”. After a getting to know, David Doppelbauer from the new partner ÖGB, gave detailed insights into the industrial relations, unions and important actors in Austria in the morning and on the regulations and procedures in the field of posting in the afternoon. The input was combined with a quiz to encourage the exchange on the learned facts. Afterwards, Annelie Buntenbach and Jan Cremers presented the support Network Fair Mobility, which they founded together with other trade unions. We discussed the idea of this informal European network of a trade-union linked national advisory network for temporary migrants, posted and seasonal workers and exchanged on how we could synergize in the project.
At Thursday morning, Gert Groppel from the DGB Rechtsschutz explained the juridical procedures and evidences on court in Germany. As contact person for ver.di he got entrusted with an important case in the care sector/24 hours work and coordinated the whole juridical process. He gave us an introduction into the legal requirements, the burden of proof and information to the court processes in Germany.
After a break, Adnan Dzibric (DGB Faire Mobilität) presented the German regulations and procedures regards the important A1 certificate. Counsellors from the involved countries shared their experiences and we discussed the differences and the possibilities to support workers who suffer from problems with this certificate like missing insurances.
The final subject of discussion was the European directive on transparent and predictable working conditions and it’s national transformation into law. Alina Lippegaus from Faire Mobilität explained the process in Germany and summarized what actually changed – and the counsellors of the different countries reported what happened in their countries.
New subject to discuss in the next workshop were collected and some agreed upon bilateral meetings to discuss the subjects further.
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Workshops in the project "Network for Fair Posting" (2021-2022)
Network Fair Posting: Transnational workshop III
16.-18. March 2022 | online
The third transnational workshop was focussed on the sectors transport and seasonal work and on our recommendations for the EU regulation.
Anna Weirich (EMWU) and Edwin Atema (FNV) gave a well-informed and focussed input on the new regulations for transport workers at the European level and the best practices and experiences of the Netherlands union to protect workers’ rights. With Federico Pancaldi from the European Labour authority we discussed the experiences on the situation of lorry drivers and exchanged on needs for action. With a special methodological framework the counsellors discussed in small groups with experts on the sectors different cases.
At the morning of the 17th Alina Lippegaus (Faire Mobilität), gave an input on the new regulation in agriculture temporary work. Afterwards we discussed common recommendations for the different sectors for the European Union. Therefore, the experts discussed in focus groups their experiences and elaborated the most important needs in the sectors. The discussed sectors have been Care, metal, construction, agriculture and transport. At the third day the counsellors have had a training on counselling skills.
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Network Fair Posting: Transnational workshop II
28./29. October 2021 | online
The second transnational workshop of “Network Fair Posting” took place online. This two days of fruitful exchange with our great colleagues from Faire Mobilität we started with an input on the EU decision on temporary work and the German Court decision on 24hrs Care Work. We discussed the consequences for posted workers and the international cooperation. A colleague from IG BAU presented the union membership for mobile workers in the construction and agriculture industry. We were very happy to welcome an expert from the European Labour Authority who presented the campaign against precarious work, especially in the agriculture sector. We exchanged on the problems in this sector and how we could work together to improve the working conditions.
The second day we had a training on counselling strategies of distressed workers. We learned how the stress of the workers effects the counselling situation and how we could deal with this.
Network Fair Posting: Transnational workshop I
24./25. march 2021 | online
This first transnational workshop of our new project “Network Fair Posting” had a focus on new important developments in posting of workers. We started with the current debates in the agriculture sector and new regulations with the insights of a colleague from Faire Mobilität. Afterwards, we discussed the subject of posting 3rd county nationals, which is more and more important in our project. We exchanged the international experiences and discussed how to act in such cases. We had a juridical input on remote work in Corona times, and which laws apply here as well as on the national regulations of the Posting Directive in Germany, which were updated last year. The meeting was a great opportunity for exchange with the partners from Faire Mobilität and gave new insights into the different subjects.
Workshops in the project "Fair Working Conditions" (2019-2020)
Fourth transnational Workshop: Focus on the transportation sector
8th October 2020 | Online
The fourth transnational workshop focussed on the transport sector. We started with an input on the the situation, common problems and social rights in the transport sector. Anna Szot and Sejla Vojic (counsellors from Faire Mobilität) built a good basis for the following discussion. They explained the complicated documentation of working reality and habitual work place and the current discussions on legal changes to improve the situation of the workers. They showed examples of their fieldwork and explained how they talk to drivers at parking spots to inform them about their rights.
After a break, Marko Tanasić (ZSSS) gave some insights on the difficulties in counselling and his best practices. He reported how he solves cases and shared his yearlong experience in counselling in the transport sector. We discussed the further cooperation with ver.di as well as the transnational cooperation on cases.
Third transnational workshop
3rd to 4th June 2020 | Online
Due to the pandemic, we had to switch to an online workshop for our third transnational workshop. The focus was a mid-evaluation of the project as well as a training and exchange on the Care sector (elderly, childcare, domestic work). In the evaluation, we discussed the fruitful cooperation in cases with Faire Mobilität as well as ideas to better reach posted workers as well as the general public via social media.
At the second day, colleagues from Faire Mobilität joined the workshop on Care, as one of the most important posting sectors. Manuela Kamp (a German lawyer) lectured on the legal basis in Germany for employment as a live-in care worker and Magdalena Kossakowska (OPZZ) gave an input on social insurance in this sector. Many counsellors of Faire Mobilität gave insights into their counselling work, common problems and possible solutions as well as in the client online work they do.
Second transnational workshop
30 september - 02 october 2019 | Zagreb
The second workshop took place at the venue of SSSH in Zagreb. All partners and counsellors from the German Fair Mobility network took part and had a fruitful exchange on their experiences, on transnational cases and best practices. In the common casework, colleagues developed new ideas and strengthened their cooperation. With a focus on the construction branch, experts gave us an insights into the system and procedures of counselling, A1 Forms and the paid leave scheme of SOKA-BAU.
Trade union projects on posting: a European exchange
22 March 2019 | Berlin
Limited project timelines and changing funding priorities – these conditions often make it difficult to perpetuate the project results. With the aim of better networking, trade unionists from Germany, France, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Italy gathered together in Berlin. The upshot was that the representatives of the three projects present (Fair Working Conditions, TIDE POWER and the Reder Network) intend to pursue more joint initiatives in the future. The event was organised by the DGB Bildungswerk BUND e.V., together with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Marina Mesure from the European Federation of Building and Wood Workers, and the DGB project "Fair Mobility".
Find a report from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in German online.
Start of the new project: first transnational workshop
19 - 21 March 2019 | Berlin
For the first time ever, the new project group met up in Berlin to hold a transnational workshop. Key points of the programme included an exchange on the specific features of posting as reported by the respective partner countries and a chance to get to know each other. For some project partners, the opening of an information centres was imminent. Experienced colleagues shared their best practices in a discussion relating to strategy.
