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– WP4: Development of Recommendations aims to develop recommendations for social partners on addressing smart working and on-work digital skills development within the CLAs and through social dialogue practices. Under this WP, expert workshops with the national social partners (worker unions and employer representatives) from across the EU will be organised. These workshops will foster collaboration and enable knowledge sharing among the social partners, will engage the social partners and their support towards the project results, ensuring the sustainability and uptake of the developed recommendations – WP3: Expert workshops and results’ validation.
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– WP2: Preparatory desk research, fact finding and interviews with social partners will produce one of the project milestones: Report on the state-of-art regarding the smart working and digital skills development in the social dialogue practices and the Collective Labour Agreements. – WP1: Project coordination, risk management and quality assurance will ensure a smooth management of the project by coordinating consortium’s work by securing the high quality of project outputs and deliverables along with implementing monitoring, quality assurance and risk management system across all WPs – increasing the businesses’ (especially, SMEs) innovation capacity and potential to benefit from the digital transition through the developed digital skills. – improving SME resilience to crisis situations (such as COVID-19) by clarifying smart-working arrangements and suggesting on-the-job training of digital skills – supporting digital skills development by introducing on-the-job training to the CLAs – supporting employment in SMEs, fostered by the increased supply in the labour market facilitated by smart working arrangements
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– increasing flexibility of the labour market and work arrangements by offering the potential to update and modernise the existing CLAs – contributing to the debate around and knowledge about the new forms of work (from the smart-working perspective) The project results and recommendations will strengthen collective bargaining and social dialogue by: The project will strengthen the social dialogue by providing guidelines and recommendations to enhance smart working and digital skills development. The project will analyse how these two areas impact the state-of-play in the workplace, how they are currently reflected in the social partners’ collective bargaining practices and, particularly, in the collective labour agreements. In particular, it covers two major areas: an agile and adaptive organisation of work, also called ‘ smart working’, as well as the need to promote the development of digital skills in work-places. The project aims to enhance the social dialogue and quality of employment by guiding social partners towards a better understanding of digital transformation implications on the collective labour agreements (CLAs).