Founded by EU: DG EMPL SD budget lines or other EU programme

Short description

The project WIM3 helps deepen the understanding in participating countries of an importance of workers' participation schemes and will serve employers' and workers' representatives as a tool to exchange know-how and experience.

In accordance with the EU values and needs in industrial relationships it is important to raise awareness of the significance of employee representatives’ role in companies not only in EU Members but also in countries that are in any stage of EU accession process. For this purpose, two projects – “WIM: Workers involvement for better and sustainable management in undertakings in Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia” and “WIM2: Workers’ Involvement – Straight to the Challenges” - were successfully implemented in the past. While the purpose of project WIM was to identify the current situation and existing legislation on employee involvement in undertakings (mainly) in Candidate Countries, as well as to initiate actions to familiarise national social partners, authorities and actors at company level with the content of EU law on employee involvement, project WIM2 was focused on searching the specific solutions or possible ways to transfer that part of the European legal order, which addresses the participation of employees, into the decision making processes.

Impacts/Outcomes 1: These results have highlighted the need for further work in terms of raising awareness and encouraging the formation of such a model of workers’ association. Bigger efforts should be made in companies where there is already unionization, as the interest in forming a Workers' Council is very low on both the management’s and workers’ side.

Impacts/Outcomes 2: The awareness of employee involvement in the management of the company itself should be higher.

Impacts/Outcomes 3: Strengthened cooperation between employers and employees for the development of employee involvement which could better address the consequences of the economic crisis

Aim

Summary of national survey on employee involvement in corporate governance for more countries in EU region

Target groups

Replicability & Recommendations

Recommendations of this initiatives/projec: https://www.zds.si/en/projects/wim-3-workers-involvement-in-management-awareness-experiment-monitoring/publikacija/ (page 40-41)

Check also predecessor projects:

WIM1: https://www.zds.si/sl/projekti/wim-vkljucevanje-delavcev-za-boljse-in-trajnostno-upravljanje-v-podjetjih/

WIM2: https://www.zds.si/sl/projekti/wim-2-vkljucevanje-delavcev-lotimo-se-izzivov/