The conference will bring together representatives of labour inspection, public administration, International Labour Organization, trade unions, and non-governmental organisations to explore and discuss challenges and opportunities to strengthen labour standards enforcement for more effective protection and equal treatment of posted and migrant workers in Europe. Through different stakeholder perspectives and expert views on the systems of labour inspection in relation to posting and labour migration, we will seek to identify solutions for enhancing administrative cooperation and information sharing at both national and transnational level.
The conference is organised as part of the PROMO project (Protecting Mobility through Improving Labour Rights Enforcement in Europe) and STRONGLAB project (Towards stronger transnational labour inspection cooperation). Its conclusions will be taken forward to shape the further project work, and will inform future policy and research debates.
Please note, the working languages of the conference will be Czech, English and Ukrainian.
Conference admission is free of charge and we very much hope that you are interested to participate. For registration to the conference, please fill in and submit the online form until 30 October 2017.
If you have any other questions, please, feel free to write at justyna.janowska@mkc.cz. We very much look forward seeing you this November in Prague!
This conference has received financial support from the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation "EaSI" (2014-2020). For further information please consult: http://ec.europa.eu/social/easi
The conference is also funded by the Visegrad Fund and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME – FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2017
9:00 - 9:30 REGISTRATION
9:30 – 9:50 WELCOME SPEECH
Jiří Vaňásek - Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic
Rudolf Hahn, General Inspector of the Czech State Labour Inspection Office
Pavel Trantina - European Economic and Social Committee
Nathan Lillie - University of Jyväskylä, Finland/PROMO
9:50 - 10:30 OPENING ADDRESS on Labour inspection and health and safety in the EU David Walters - Cardiff University, UK
10:30 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 12:30 POSTING OF WORKERS IN THE EU: DISCUSSING THE PROJECT BACKGROUND PAPER
Joaquim Nunes - International Labour Organization
Frederic de Wispelaere - Leuven University, Belgium
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 15:30 PARALLEL WORKHOPS
1. Registrations and data collection systems
2. IMI and information exchange – blessings and limits
3. Awareness of rights and responsibilities
4. Collection of fines and claims
5. Cross-border subcontracting chains, letter-box companies and liability
6. Cooperation between domestic authorities
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30 PLENARY SESSION ON WORKSHOP OUTPUTS
19:00 DINNER
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2017
9:00 - 11:00 MIGRATION AND POSTING OF UKRAINIAN WORKERS IN CEE: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
Michal Trčka - Multicultural Center Prague, Czech Republic
Myroslava Keryk - Nasz Wybór, Poland
Tibor Meszmann - AnBlokk, Hungary
Victoria Volodko - Zaporuka, Ukraine
Zuzana Bargerová - Center for the Research of Ethinicity and Culture, Slovakia
11:00 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:45 MIGRATION AND POSTING OF UKRAINIAN WORKERS IN CEE: COMPARISON AND FEEDBACK
Devi Sacchetto - University of Padova, Italy
Vitaliy Makhynko - Leader of Ukrainian trade union movement, Poland
Olena Fedyuk - AnBlokk, Hungary
Labour inspectors’ representatives (tba.)
12:45 - 13:30 NETWORKING BRUNCH
13:30 - 15:00 DEBATING POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Jan Cremers - Tilburg University, Netherlands
Eva-Maria Schneider - Solidar/PROMO
Nathan Lillie - University of Jyväskylä, Finland/PROMO