Sustainable work throughout the life course

Foundation Seminar Series 2014
Session Two: ‘Sustainable work throughout the life course:
A step towards a strategy for inclusion and competitiveness’
Thursday 6 November 2014, (9h00 – 17h00) and Friday 7 November 2014, (8h30 – 16h00)
The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
English only
Date:
Venue:
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Programme - Thursday 6 November
9.00
Registration & coffee
9.30
Welcome
Chair: Juan Menéndez-Valdés, Director, Eurofound
Where are we now? Where are we going?
Greet Vermeylen, Senior Programme Manager, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations
Unit, Eurofound
Isabella Biletta, Research Manager, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations Unit,
Eurofound
10.00
Sustainable work: The significance of ‘good and bad work experiences’
Mari Kira, Docent, Organisational Behaviour, Aalto University School of Science, Finland
Discussion
10.50
Coffee break
11.05
The how and why of developing sustainable work throughout the life course
Chair: Greet Vermeylen, Senior Programme Manager, Working Conditions and Industrial
Relations Unit, Eurofound
“Occupational inequalities, health and work”
Agar Brugiavini, Director, Ca’ Foscari International College, and Dean, Venice International
University, Italy
“Career and employment security: implications from a life-course perspective”
Christophe Vanroelen, Professor, Vrijie Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Discussion
12.30
Lunch
FSS 2014 Session II
Thursday 6 November
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13.45
Three parallel workshops: How is sustainable work addressed at country level and
within organisations?
Objective: Presentations and discussion based on information gathered on the national
situations for the ‘summer discussions’.
Expected outcomes: Better knowledge of national perspectives. Sharing and exchanging of
policies, actions, issues and research including national and organisational examples.
Groups will comprise of national tripartite teams allocated by Eurofound.
Workshop 1
Country summer discussions
Facilitators: Barbara Schmidt,
Greet Vermeylen
Workshop 2
Country summer discussions
Workshop 3
Country summer discussions
Facilitators: Isabella Biletta,
Patricia Vendramin
Facilitators: Sophia MacGoris,
David Foden
15.15
Coffee break
15.30
Health: A key factor for developing sustainable work throughout the life course
Chair: Agnès Parent Thirion, Senior Programme Manager, Working Conditions and
Industrial Relations Unit, Eurofound
Arduous work, age and work productivity throughout the life course
Serge Volkoff, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Employment Studies, France
Discussant: Sarah Copsey, Project Manager, European Agency for Safety and Health at
Work (EUOSHA)
Discussion
16.20
Wrap up of the day and preparation for workshops
Chair: Barbara Schmidt, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Operations Support Unit,
Eurofound
16.30
End of day one
19.30
Restaurant “Improvisio”
Brusselsestraat 63 B, 3000 Leuven, Tel: +32(0)16 20 76 46
[email protected], www.improvisio.net
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Thursday 6 November
FSS 2014 Session II
Foundation Seminar Series 2014
Session Two: ‘Sustainable work throughout the life course:
A step towards a strategy for inclusion and competitiveness’
Thursday 6 November 2014, (9h00 – 17h00) and Friday 7 November 2014, (8h30 – 16h00)
The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
English only
Date:
Venue:
Language:
Programme - Friday 7 November
8.30
Registration & coffee
9.00
Introduction Day two
Barbara Schmidt, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Operations Support Unit, Eurofound
9.05
Benefits for business and workers:win-win
Chair: David Foden, Head of Unit, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations Unit,
Eurofound
Rebekah Smith, Adviser, BusinessEurope
Józef Niemiec, Deputy General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
Discussion
9.45
Innovate to create and maintain employment
Chair: Greet Vermeylen, Senior Programme Manager, Working Conditions and Industrial
Relations Unit, Eurofound
Dealing with ‘Sustainable work’ in SMEs
Jean-Paul Peulet, Head of Department, Coordination NAALC-ARACT Network, ANACT, France
Promoting job creation and social innovation
Xavier Le Mounier, Policy Officer, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
MC² project experience @ Work (Belgium)
Paul Klibanski, Senior Executive, Hazelheartwood BVBA
Discussion
FSS 2014 Session II
Friday 7 November
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10.50
The role of social partnerships in developing sustainable work practices throughout the
life course – Three parallel workshops:
Objective: Discussion on how social partnership can support and develop policies and actions
to facilitate sustainable work throughout the life course
Expected outcomes: Sharing examples of social partnership, assessing the achievements,
discussing the potentials and identifying the preconditions for social partners and other
actors to develop such policies and actions
Groups will comprise of one representative from each national team in each workshop.
Allocation by Eurofound.
Workshop 4
Theme: Social partnerships
Presentation: ‘NUST Network
of Companies’ (Barcelona,
Spain)
Carme Carrera Escuder,
Igualtat i Esports Ajuntament
de Barcelona
Fernanda Zanuzzi, Fundació
SURT
Facilitators: Barbara Schmidt,
Greet Vermeylen
12.30
Workshop 5
Theme: Social partnerships
Presentation: French Interprofessional agreement on
Quality of Work – Case
example - Renault factory
(France)
Michel Sailly, ex CFDT
Metallurgy Federation
Facilitators: Isabella Biletta,
Patricia Vendramin
Workshop 6
Theme: Social partnerships
Presentation: Case Becton
Dickinson (Ireland)
David Mullis, Becton
Dickinson
Michelle Quinn, SIPTU
Facilitators: Sophia MacGoris,
David Foden
Tripartite sharing lunch
Objective: To provide an opportunity for national teams to reconvene, and to convey and
discuss earlier presentations.
13.30
Discussion: Challenges and steps forward - Three parallel workshops
Objective: Discussion on what each actor sees as the future actions required for Europe in
order to address the issue of sustainable work throughout the life course.
Expected outcomes: Identification of key challenges and preconditions for supporting
sustainable work throughout the life course.
14.45
Workshop 7
Government Representatives
Workshop 8
Employer Representatives
Workshop 9
Trade Union Representatives
Facilitators: Barbara Schmidt,
Greet Vermeylen
Facilitators: Isabella Biletta,
Patricia Vendramin
Facilitators: Sophia MacGoris,
David Foden
General discussion
Chair: Isabella Biletta, Research Manager, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations Unit,
Eurofound
Wrap up and closing remarks
Greet Vermeylen, Senior Programme Manager, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations
Unit, Eurofound
16.00
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Seminar ends
Friday 7 November
FSS 2014 Session II
Foundation Seminar Series 2014
Session Two: ‘Sustainable work throughout the life course:
A step towards a strategy for inclusion and competitiveness’
Thursday 6 November 2014, (9h00 – 17h00) and Friday 7 November 2014, (9h00 – 16h00)
The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
English only
Date:
Venue:
Languages:
Country participation
Contributors
Affiliation
No.
Country
EMPLOYERS
TRADE UNIONS GOVERNMENTS
Hruska-Frank
1
Austria
2
Croatia
Jovanovic
Kranjac Jularic
3
Finland
Eggleton
Kukka
4
Germany
Eckstein
Stockfisch
6
Hungary
Klajko
7
Ireland
O'Brien
Kinahan
Gallagher
8
Italy
Astorri
Cilona
De Rinaldis
9
Latvia
Alksnis
Fromholde
Porniece
10
Lithuania
Usonis
Šlionskienė
Baliukeviciene
12
Portugal
Leal
Marques
Godinho
13
Slovenia
Bernik
14
Spain
15
The Netherlands
FSS 2014 Session II
Alasoini
Marosi
Komel
Cirez Miqueleiz
Lopez Jacob
Hagesteijn
Jurriëns
Country Participation
Bhagwandin
5

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