In the period between August 2013 and August 2014, the ZDS was a partner of the project entitled the »Modernisation of industrial relations through the promotion of collective agreements updating", awarded to the Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia (ZSSS) on the basis of the Invitation to tender for co-financing the projects of social partners for the years 2013 and 2014. The project was focused on providing appropriate environment for efficient implementation of the European Framework Agreements (EFAs) and European Framework of Actions in the Slovenian social dialogue.

Project objectives

• Provide better information on the role and importance of EFA and European Framework of Actions among social partners,
• Becoming familiar with good practices related to the implementation of the EFAs and European Framework of Actions by social partners,
• Defining the opportunity to proactively plan the guidelines of the EFAs and European Framework of Actions at the level of collective agreements and transpose the guidelines to sectoral collective agreements,
• Training of project stakeholders to carry out and monitor on a regular basis the efficiency of the EFAs and European Framework of Actions in collective agreements.

The project is partly financed by the European Union, namely from the European Social Fund under the Operational Programme for Human Resources Development for 2007-2013, 1st priority axis: "Promoting entrepreneurship and adaptability", Priority 1.4: "Promotion of development of new employment opportunities".