Sectoral Social Dialogue in Future EU Member States : The Weakest Link

This book provides a first comprehensive assessment of sectoral social dialogue practices in future EU states.

It shows that while tripartite consultative institutions have been set up in most of these countries during their transition years, and decentralised collective bargaining has started to regulate working conditions within individual enterprises, little attention has been paid to social dialogue at intermediate levels, in particular to sectoral social dialogue, which obviously remains the 'weakest link' of their industrial relations.