Legal framework: obstacles, facilitators and new strategies

WP 2 will present a legal analysis that aims to evaluate the impact of EU and national legal frameworks as barriers or facilitators for inclusion of non-standard workers in social dialogue, with a focus on reform recommendations. The work package will thus contribute to the realization of the aim of the INDI-project of creating a more cohesive, effective, and legally robust environment for social dialogue, by addressing and proposing enhancements to the existing legal framework.

Part 1 is the first step in this analysis and focuses on the existing legal framework at a national level. More precisely, Part 1 will seek to identify and compare existing legal obstacles and facilitators for access to social dialogue for non-standard workers in selected national systems.

WP 2 Part 1 includes three deliverables: This working paper (deliverable 2.1) presents the analytical framework which will guide the five national analyses from NO, DK, NL, IT and the UK (deliverable 2.2). The national reports will serve as a basis for a comparative analysis (deliverable 2.3). In the concluding project report of Part 1, we will identify commonalities and variations, not only regarding access to social dialogue for non-standard workers but also focusing on how this relates to differences in the national systems of social dialogue.

These findings will feed into an analysis of the interplay between EU measures (Part 2, deliverable 2.4) and national law (Part 3, deliverable 2.5 and 2.6), as well as the overall conclusions and reform recommendations of WP 2 (Part 4, deliverable 2.7).

This working paper thus structures the overall work of WP 2 and forms the basis for answering the question of the effect of the legal frameworks at EU and national level on including NSW in social dialogue.