The project and its activities contributed towards improving working conditions ensuring decent work for workers in the metal sector with a focus on building capacities of workers and employers representatives, representatives of social partners, members of trade unions and experts. The main outcome and the produced outputs had a clear focus on the objectives in order to improve and contribute towards establishing a general information system - Labor Information System (LISC) - for improving the decent work regulations, and established tools for information on workers rights in the metal sector in Croatia.
Objectives:
- Improve understanding of support services for workers and inform new labor policy frameworks.
- Increase knowledge among employees and employers about EU laws and policies related to employee involvement, rights, and duties.
- Enhance information dissemination regarding decent work legislation.
- Improve workers' rights literacy through the LISC.
- Foster new approaches to workers' rights through the establishment of an Information Bureau (IB) and a Workers Advocacy Club (WAC).
- Build capacities of workers through advocacy training and local mini-trainings on stress relief, cross-cultural issues, gender equality, and psycho-social support.
- Increase knowledge through a comparative data report on the implementation of ILO Convention no. 144 in Norway and Croatia.
- Produce promotional materials on ILO Convention no. 144 focusing on tripartite decision-making.
Activities:
- National Labor Conference to promote the Decent Work Agenda.
- Comparative data report between Norway and Croatia.
- Establishment of LISC in Croatia.
- Development of a guideline manual for a quality Labor Information System.
- Training curriculum for Workers Rights Advocates.
- Establishment of an Information Bureau and Workers Rights Club.
- Preparation of a final report documenting the LISC model.
- Communication and publicity to raise awareness and disseminate project outcomes.