Strengthening social dialogue in the local and regional government sector in the ‘new’ Member States and candidate countries


Key challenges for local and regional government sector



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5.4. Key challenges for local and regional government sector





Country

Key challenges for local and regional government sector

Cyprus

Privatisation

wage freezes

retirement age of public sector workers


Czech Republic

Privatisation

lack of employers' organisation

Estonia

Moves towards legislative change to allow for the establishment of employers' organisations in the sector of local/regional government.

Lack of independent/stable budgets.

Low wages and regional salary differences.

Low unionisation rates.

Changes in municipal responsibilities.

Outsourcing and competitive tendering

Hungary

Fragmentation of representation of local government organisations.

Lack of employers' organisations.

New pay scheme for civil servants.

Privatisation.

Low wages.

Reductions in public spending.

Changes in responsibilities of different levels of local government.

New administrative procedures

Latvia

  • Lack of social partner involvement due to low unionisation rates and institutional weakness.

Lack of fiscal autonomy of local authorities.

Lithuania

Absence of employers' organisation.

Law is required to allow employers' organisations in the sector to bargain collectively. There are now efforts to create such a new law.

Lack of financial autonomy.


Malta

Privatisation.

Introduction of Public Private Partnerships.

Greater customer orientation.

Different working patterns.

Job security


Poland

Financial constraints.

New Labour Code Requirements, which call for collective agreements to be concluded between trade unions and employers' organisations from 2009.

Status of municipal civil service.


Slovak Republic

Financial constraints. The Association of Cities and Municipalities of Slovakia refused to sign the 2004 collective agreement as it considered that insufficient financial resources were allocated to municipalities

Slovenia

Low level of autonomy for municipalities.

2003 Public Sector Wages Act restricted salaries for public officials.

Bulgaria

Lack of financial independence leading to disproportion between rights and responsibilities.

Poor standard of municipal infrastructure.

Moves towards privatisation.


Romania

Privatisation

Conditions for competitive tendering

Deficiency of local strategies for the development of public services.


Turkey

Privatisation

Dismissals and collective redundancies



Late payment of wages and benefits.


5.5. Growth rate of GDP - percentage change on previous year 95





Country

2003

2004

200596

Belgium

1.3

2.9

2.2

Czech Republic

3.2

4.4

4.0 (f)

Denmark

0.7

2.4

2.3 (f)

Germany

-0.2

1.6

0.8 (f)

Estonia

6.7

7.8

6.0 (f)

Greece

4.7

4.2

2.9 (f)

Spain

2.9

3.1

2.7 (f)

France

0.8

2.3

2.0 (f)

Ireland

4.4

4.5

4.9 (f)

Italy

0.3

1.2

1.2 (f)

Cyprus

1.9

3.7

3.9 (f)

Latvia

7.2

8.3

7.2 (f)

Lithuania

10.4

7.0

6.4 (f)

Luxembourg

2.9

4.5

3.8 (f)

Hungary

2.9

4.2

3.9 (f)

Malta

-1.9

0.4

1.7 (f)

Netherlands

-0.1

1.7

1.0 (f)

Austria

1.4

2.4

2.1 (f)

Poland

3.8

5.3

4.4 (f)

Portugal

-1.2

1.2

1.1 (f)

Slovenia

2.5

4.6

3.7 (f)

Slovakia

4.5

5.5

4.9 (f)

Finland

2.4

3.6

3.3 (f)

Sweden

1.5

3.6

3.0 (f)

UK

2.5

3.2

2.8 (f)



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