Social Partnership on Wage Regulation in Ukraine’s Public Sector

• Authors: Svitlana Tsymbaliuk , Tetiana Shkoda

Abstracts

EN

In the face of constant pandemic-related and military threats to citizens’ right to work, collective bargaining has become almost the only real instrument to reconcile the interests of social partners and consolidate their efforts. The authors proposed a methodology for assessing the development of social partnership in the regulation of labour remuneration based on a set of indicators and a comparative analysis of the indicators in several public organisations: the State Audit Service of Ukraine, the State Treasury Service of Ukraine, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the Police of Ukraine, and the Pension Fund of Ukraine. Based on the challenges and general trends revealed by the results of the analysis, the authors identified areas for improving collective wage bargaining and the best practices in social partnership for their dissemination in public organisations.

Keywords

EN

social partnership; social dialogue; collective bargaining; labour remuneration; sectoral agreement

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2023
• Issue: Special Issue
• Pages: 50-67

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Svitlana Tsymbaliuk

• Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Personnel Management, Sociology and Psychology Faculty; Kyiv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000261944035

author

Tetiana Shkoda

• Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Business Economics and Entrepreneurship Department; Kyiv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000310164853

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/15094995s2304

Biblioteka Nauki

2216616