{"id":3624,"date":"2021-09-16T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2023-07-31T14:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:14:36","slug":"damaging-ruling-for-eu-social-partner-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/damaging-ruling-for-eu-social-partner-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"Damaging ruling for EU social partner agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_432d3f53\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><b><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Damaging ruling on how the Commission should handle EU social partner agreements<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its verdict on the case EPSU (the European Federation of Public Service Unions) brought against the European Commission (case C-928\/19P).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">The case concerned <a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Judgement-in-Case-C-928-19P.pdf\">the\u00a0Commission\u2019s unprecedented refusal\u00a0<\/a>to bring forward a social partner agreement to the Council for decision based on the interpretation of\u00a0Article 155.2 TFEU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">EPSU argued that when the social partners are representative, when they jointly request so and when the content of their agreement is legal, the Commission must transform the agreement into a directive for Council to decide upon. This is based upon 25 years of practice and several Commission communications on the subject.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Pending a full analysis of the verdict, the Court\u2019s press release indicates the Advocate-General\u2019s public opinion has been upheld.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">It states that the Commission has full discretion to do what it wants with social partner agreements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">This means the Commission can make a political judgement as to whether a social partner agreement fits in its agenda or to give in to pressure from some governments to not bring an agreement to the Council for a majority decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">The ultimate result is twofold:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Firstly, it denies nearly ten million civil servants and workers in public administrations the same EU legal protection of information and consultation rights as other workers. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Secondly, it challenges the autonomy of social partners and leaves them in legal uncertainty regarding their future agreements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To read the rest<\/strong>\u00a0of the press release \u201c<span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Damaging ruling on how the Commission should handle EU social partner agreements\u201d,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epsu.org\/article\/press-release-damaging-ruling-how-commission-should-handle-eu-social-partner-agreements\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_large\"><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium with_line width_50 thick_3 style_solid color_primary align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case concerned the Commission\u2019s unprecedented refusal to bring forward a social partner agreement to the Council for decision based on the interpretation of Article 155.2 TFEU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,69],"tags":[],"dossier-special":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","category-special-report"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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