GLOBAL BAR IN BELGRADE: Growth, jobs and labour rights
On Thursday, March 27th, at 6p.m. in Kolarac Foundation (Hall ‘Josif Pančić)
How can Serbia meet the demands from employers, employees, EU and a changing world? And what is there to learn from the Swedish example?
More jobs, decent jobs and growth are key issue for Serbia as well as for all of Europe. What medicine can help this halting, depressed European labour market on it’s feet again and make it support the development of well functioning welfare states?
With some 25 percents unemployment – and even higher among the young – Serbia needs inspiration from countries that have a better record when it comes to employment and economy. In Sweden and the other Nordic countries, the social partners – trade unions and employer’s organisations – since long have a major role in handling labour market issues as wage formation and job security. Is the Nordic example relevant for Serbia? What is there to learn – or to reject?
TIME: Thursday, March 27th, 18h
LOCATION: Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation (Hall “Josif Pančić”)
PANELISTS:
Monika Arvidsson, Chief Investigator at the Swedish think-tank Arbetarrörelsens tankesmedja. She is an economist with international macroeconomics, economic policy and migration expertise. She has worked with the EU’s macroeconomic framework, globalization issues, labor economics, growth models, labor and corporate governance. Previously, she worked as economist at the Trade Union Confederation, LO, in Sweden.
Jovan Protic, National Coordinator for Serbia of International Labour Organization (the oldest United Nations technical organizaton).
Third panelist is still to be confirmed
MODERATOR:
Agneta Carleson (Global Reporting) is a journalist and a communicator with focus on global issues. In recent years she has, among many things, been working as a communication advisor in Vietnam within the Sida-financed poverty-reduction project Chia Se, she was a part of a team that worked to develop a trade union newspaper in Ramallah, Palestine, she has been giving courses in strategic communication and has written a number of articles about global- and development issues for Sida, Government Offices, the LO-TCO Secretariat of International Trade Union Development Cooperation and Olof Palme International Centre.
LANGUAGE: English
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