ing daggers at each other, trade union and employers’ organizations in the banking sector met on November 27. Talks resumed around a report commissioned by the European Commission on the new stakes for employment and skills in finance since the global economic and financial crisis. The document draws up three scenarios, makes social projections and recommends new trends for HR strategies. (Ref. 091118)
Jammed social dialog. At the height of the financial and economic crisis, dialog between the European organizations in finance got stuck. In the spring 2008, acknowledging their inability to make progress on a joint declaration on the sector’s demographic stakes, workers’ representatives – i.e. the Uni-Finance trade union federation – and employers – represented by the European Banking Federation (EBF), the European Savings Banks Group (ESBG) and the European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB) – put a halt to the talks.