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Time-off and other resources

Trade union representatives typically will have paid time off for their duties and will also be entitled to paid leave to take part in union-organised courses. The details depend on the specific collective agreement for the industry. Since 2007 several collective agreements, including the agreement for manufacturing industry, which covers a large number of employees, have provided that newly elected trade union representatives are entitled to four days’ paid time off for training. The training itself in normally financed by a fund set up by both sides.

Employee members of the cooperation committee are entitled to paid time off to attend the meetings. In addition the deputy chair, the senior employee representative, is entitled to time off to carry out the tasks linked with the cooperation committee. Office facilities may also be provided to the deputy chair, where these are necessary.

The cooperation committee can call in outside experts, although these will normally be agreed by both sides. Where this is not possible, the national joint union/employer body, the Cooperation Board, can be involved to attempt to solve the problem.

Austria has a single trade union confederation, the ÖGB, to which around a third of all employees belong. Not affiliated to a particular party, the ÖGB nevertheless has strong political ties through its system of political groupings.

Trade union density is relatively low at around 15% and membership is divided between a large number of organisations. There are two large confederations, NSZZ Solidarność and OPZZ, and one somewhat smaller one, FZZ. However, a significant number of union members are in small local unions not affiliated to any of the main confederations.

The distribution and significance of employee financial participation in Europe are at first glance no more uniform and structured than in the case of codetermination. Analysis shows examples and cases of good practice concerning financial participation in all European countries, even if the political and economic preconditions vary between strong legal foundations for the active promotion of financial participation (as in France and the UK) on the one hand, and rather poor recognition of such practices at enterprise level by the social partners, on the other.

A todo list with oustanding issues. Basically a follow-up tool for Michael.

Michael (16.3): I habe deleted in this list the tasks already accomplished as the list got a little bit complex ... :-)

I hope I did not delete anything which was important for you. However the old list is still existing.

A list of our contact details.

Employer Organisations VBO/FEB and affiliates

• VBO/FEB - Federation of Belgian Companies (En)
• ABB-BVB - Belgian Bankers' Association (En)
• ABSU-UGBN - Belgian Federation of Cleaning Contractors
• AGORIA - "mult-sector federation for the technology industry" (En)
• Belgian Clothing Association (En)
• CBB - Confederation of Belgian Breweries (En)
• FABRIMETAL - metalworking employers' federation (En)
• FBB - Belgian Brick Industry Association
• FeBe - Belgian Precast Concrete Federation
• FEBELCEM - Federation of the Belgian Cement Industry
• FEBELGRA - Federation of the Belgian Graphics Industry (En)
• FEBELTEX - textile employers' federation (En)
• FEDICHEM - Federation of the Belgian Chemical Industries (En)
• FEDIS - Belgian Federation of Distributors (En)
• FETRA - Federation of the Paper and Board Converting Industries (En)
• FEVIA - Food Industry Federation (En)
• Figas/Figaz - Belgian Federation of the Gas Industry (En)
• FIV/VGI - Federation of the Glass Industry (En)
• FPB - Belgian Petroleum Federation
• UPEA/BVVO - Belgian Insurance Assocation (En)
• FEDERGON - temporary agency employers

Other Organisations

• UWE - Walloon Business Federation (En)
• UNIZO - SMEs organisation (En)
• FEBETRA - road transport employers
• FESEP - continuing education employers
• UCM - SMEs organisation (Fr)

Trade Unions FGTB/ABVV and Affiliates

• FGTB/ABVV - Belgian General Confederation of Labour (En)
• BBTK-ABVV - white-collar workers' union (Ne)
• SETCa-FGTB - white-collar workers' union (Fr)
• SEL - teachers' section of SETCa
• HORVAL - food, beverages, hotels and services federation (En)
• FGTB/ABVV - Brussels regional organisation
• FGTB/ABVV - Flanders regional organisation
• SETCA/BBTK - white collar workers' union, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde region
• ABVV youth service
• Fondation André Renard - FGTB/ABVV-linked foundation

CSC/ACV and Affiliates

• ACV/CSC - General Christian Trade Union (En)
• CCSP - public services workers' union
• CCVD/CCAS - food and services workers' union
• CNE - union for clerical workers and managerial staff in Wallonia and Brussels
• FIC - Christian teachers' union
• LBC-NVK - union for clerical workers and managerial staff in Flanders and Brussels
• TRANSCOM - transport and communications workers' union (En)
• ACV/CSC Brussels regional organisation

Other Union Organisations

• ACLVB/CGSLB - General Confederation of Liberal Trade Unions
• SLFP/VSOA - ACLVB/CGSLB public sector section
• BCA - Belgian Cockpit Association (En)
• UNSP secteur finances - independent finance department workers' union

Government

• Federal Ministry of Employment and Labour (En)
• General Belgian government site (En)
• Official information on social security in Belgium (En)
• Federal Ministry of Economy (En)

Other Links

• National Labour Council (En)
• FOREM - training and employment services body (Wallonia)
• VDAB - training and employment services body (Flanders)
• ORBEM - training and employment services body (Brussels)
• Federal Planning Bureau (En)
• CCE/CRB - Central Council of the Economy
• INRCT - National Institute for Working Conditions Research
• ONEM - National Employment Office
• www.6com.be - Belgian trade union information portal
• SCADPlus Guide to employment conditions in Belgium (En)
• CRISP Research center on social and political matters (En)

A todo list with oustanding issues. Basically a follow-up tool for Michael.