Second sitting

Point for discussion 2: Ensuring an enabling environment: What challenges and opportunities exist for ensuring an enabling environment and achieving strong and effective institutions of work so that social dialogue in all its forms delivers more effective, results-oriented and sustainable outcomes, and enhances democracy and good governance? 

• a) What role should governments play in ensuring this enabling environment? What are the key elements of institutional and legal frameworks that enable social partners’ effective participation in social dialogue? 
• b) What practical approaches can be taken, in line with national circumstances and respecting the autonomy of the social partners, to support the reach and representativeness of social dialogue institutions and outcomes?
• c) What role should governments play in ensuring the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining and the effective use of other forms of social dialogue?