The contribution of RILSA researcher Soňa Veverková in the prestigious international publication “The New World of Work – Challenges and Opportunities for Social Partners and Labour Institutions”

The collection of contributions, the compilation of which was initiated by the International Labour Organisation, addresses issues surrounding the new world of work, i.e. the challenges that information and communication technologies and digitalisation have presented in the labour market – especially in relation to social partners.

The publication addresses three major issues: digitalisation and its influence on social dialogue, the capacities of social partners in times of new challenges, and the autonomy of social partners.

These issues are examined at the EU level and with respect to selected EU member countries, including the Czech Republic. In addition, national contributions considered other specific issues that national social partners have had to address in recent years. The Czech contribution by Soňa Veverková, an employee of the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs, which concerns primarily the shortage of labour and the fall in the membership base of trade unions, is included in the Enhancing the Social Partner and Social Dialogue in the New World of Work in the Czech Republic chapter.

The publication forms the output of a joint International Labour Organisation/European Commission project, the aim of which is to enhance the involvement of social partners at the European and national levels and increase their awareness of the impacts of changes in the labour market. As part of the project, RILSA (the project guarantor for the Czech Republic) together with Czech social partners, presented a national opinion standpoint. The results of the project will serve, inter alia, to inform European social partners and EU decision-making bodies of the capacities of social partners in the countries involved.

The publication The New World of Work – Challenges and Opportunities for Social Partners and Labour Institutions has been published by the leading British social science publisher Edward Elgar.

The publication is available via the RILSA library here.

A description of the “Enhancing the capacity of social partners and social dialogue in the new world of work” project on which the publication was based.