PROMOTING SOCIAL DIALOGUE
Call for Expression of Interest for Training of conciliators and arbitrators
Budget line: IPA – Human Resources Development 04 06 01
MKD/13/02/MKD
Introduction and background
The beneficiary country gained the candidate status for the accession to European Union
(EU) in 2005 and a number of progress reports by the European Commission (EC) indicated
the need to further develop social dialogue (SD) among main stakeholders in the economy
and at all levels.
The Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) project on Promoting Social Dialogue is
funded by the EU and is being implemented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
under the leadership of the ILO Budapest office. The overall objective of this project is to
extend and enhance tripartite and bipartite social dialogue as a means to achieve
economic growth and social progress. This will be achieved through institutional and
legislative improvement along with activities aimed at strengthening the capacities of
tripartite actors in the labour market to engage effectively in social dialogue. The project has
a comprehensive approach and aims to provide technical support to both institutions and
participants in social dialogue processes, including collective bargaining at the national,
branch, and local level.
The project consists of three interlinked components, designed to address challenges which
national tripartite actors are currently facing in a coherent and complementary manner:
Component 1: Enhancing tripartite social dialogue on national and local level
This component focuses on capacity building activities to be delivered by the ILO
technical specialists along with practitioners from EU member states (MS) on
topics such as wage fixing in the public sector, minimum wage setting and its
relation to the informal economy, employment relationship, social security
reforms, active labour market policies, youth employment, collective bargaining
benefits including wage-productivity linkage among others to the members of
the ESC and its permanent secretariat. The project will also facilitate the creation
of an external “pool” of technical expertise the ESC will be able to draw on in
order to expand its research scope.
Component 2: Encouraging collective bargaining and setting sectoral collective
bargaining infrastructures
Promoting Social Dialogue
Project funded by the
European Union
Project implemented by the
International Labour Organisation
This component of the project will enhance the capacity of both the government
and the social partners to increase the effectiveness of collective bargaining.
Measures will be devised and implemented with ILO assistance in the framework
of a national tripartite Action Plan.
Technical capacity of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy to pro-actively
perform its key functions to promote collective bargaining including the setting
of enabling regulatory and institutional frameworks will be strengthened. At the
same time, the capacity of employers’ organizations and trade unions to
negotiate effectively and to reach out to potential members will be reinforced.
The latter will be achieved through implementation of a training programme on
how to effectively engage in collective bargaining targeting employers’ and
workers’ organizations at national and sectoral level.
Component 3: Establishing an operational amicable settlement of labour
disputes
Under this component, the project will assist in the establishment of an
operational and cost-effective mechanism for amicable settlement of labour
disputes, and will support the creation and training of a roster of specialised
labour mediators/conciliators. Once implemented, the new mechanism is
expected to support the social partners in preventing and resolving disputes
arising in the process of collective bargaining.
Call for expression of interest within Activity 3.2.2 Training of conciliators and
arbitrators:
The present call for expression of interest aims at prospecting candidates, who will be
interested in receiving training on labour disputes conciliation and arbitration using ILO
tools.
Interested candidates that are fulfilling the criteria detailed below are encouraged to submit
their applications:
Activity Task details Time frame Duration
3.2.2
Training of conciliators and
arbitrators
December 2015
3 days
Promoting Social Dialogue
Project funded by the
European Union
Project implemented by the
International Labour Organisation
Time frame
The training will be organized in December 2015.
Conditions for eligibility
Candidates should fulfil the following requirements:
– Candidates need to have Macedonian citizenship;
– To have at least Bachelor Degree and minimum 5 years work experience in the area of
Labour Law/Labour relations;
– Candidates need to have an advanced knowledge of the world of work and of industrial
relations system in the country;
– Not to be subject of any legal sanctions that will prevent him/her of conducting his
professional duties.
This training provides possibility for future receipt of the license for labour disputes
conciliation and arbitration.
Procedure of applying
Interested candidates are kindly requested to submit their CV and cover letter by 15
November, 2015 to the e-mail address simjanoska@ilo.org and jovanovska@ilo.org.
The commission retains the right to accept or reject any application. Successful applicants
will be contacted by the project office and they will receive detailed information about the
training.
Project office will cover all training related costs for the participants.