Social Dialogue Council: the Shifting Sands of Tripartite Social Dialogue
Social Dialogue Council: the Shifting Sands of Tripartite Social Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the work of Social Dialogue Council (henceforth referred to as RDS, from the Polish acronym of Rada Dialogu Społecznego) an institutional keystone of tripartite dialogue in Poland. The point of departure for our discussion is the COVID-19 epidemic,a litmus test not only for the world economy, but above all for social life. Its impact on industrial relations and the state of social dialogue seems undisputable. These processes apply to Poland. The trials and tribulations of the epidemic have had a negative impact on the functioning of the RDS. It seems, however, that the current inertia of this institution is primarily due to the processes of destruction of social dialogue which have been going on for a long time, with twists and turns around COVID-19 only exposing their destructive scale.

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