June, 2011.
With the launch of Consultingeuropa, Groupe Alpha is stepping into a new phase in the involvement in European projects and, more widely, in the support to social partners on labor, employment and skill issues.
At this time of global economic and social crisis, there is an urgent necessity to help social actors in defining solutions on wage, financial, working conditions and many other fronts. Developing social dialogue and strengthening the European social model is more relevant than ever. It is our ambition to help you, trade unions, employer federations, European institutions, in promoting this social dialogue, not only at national level but also at European level.
At this time of crisis, we must also promote tools aimed at developing Workers’s skills. Europe 2020 and the Agenda for new skills and jobs are opportunities that should result in real and concrete actions.
We need to use every means available to us to equip workers for facing labor market challenges, but also to support a sustainable efficiency of organizations, of enterprises.
It seems essential to empower stakeholders on the major issue of lifelong training, with the help of a constructive social dialogue:
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a dialogue to be established within businesses on the issue of the training plan;
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a dialogue to be organized at local level, by bringing around the table, for example in France, the State, the regions and the social partners for establishing a regional strategy for the development of vocational training. Groupe Alpha is actively involved in meeting this challenge, by assisting some regions in this process and facilitating territorial social dialogue.
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a social dialogue at European level, in interaction with public policies. The Sector Councils on Employment and Skills established by European social partners are expected to network national and regional actors and to help forging stronger community of shared practice and experience.
This is also an important area where we engage, with consultingeuropa, by supporting social partners in the establishment of their sector councils.
