CARE-U: facilitating integration of Ukrainian refugees into Polish labour market– healthcare sector

Project facts

Project promoter:
Federation of Trade Unions of Healthcare and Social Welfare Workers(PL)
Project Number:
SDDW-0082
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€128,516
Donor Project Partners:
Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees(NO)

Description

The project will pilot sustainable forms of social dialogue for all professional groups in health care sector to facilitate access to employment and decent work for Ukrainian refugees. 

The overall objective of the project is to facilitate the integration of medical staff among Ukrainian refugees into the Polish health sector, and a strengthened social dialogue should contribute to this outcome. The project focuses both on capacity-building of social partners to take a more active role in the development of active labour market policies (ALMP) in the health sector, but also to strengthen bipartite and tripartite dialogue at regional and national level to agree on a policy framework to facilitate employment of Ukrainian health workers.  The project also has a win-win potential of both employing refugees but also fill vacancies in the health sector where understaffing is a problem.  

The applicant has finalised a first project supported under the 1st call, which focused primarily on decent work. The new project focus on refugees'' labour rights and decent working conditions, ad builds further on the partnership with the Norwegian trade union Fagforbundet.

The following activities will be carried out:

- Social dialogue and Active labour policy measures, including three consultative meetings of social partners in different Polish cities with participation of healthcare institutions and public authorities. 
- Transfer of know-how and training measures for professionals and social partners, including online workshop with social partners from Norway, three online workshops for social partners on decent work, and  preparation of a jointly negotiated policy framework
- Communication and raising awareness activities are elaborated in Communication Plan
 

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