Scale Up (2025 - 2027)
Building on the PHSDialogue project, Scale Up seeks to enhance EU Sectoral Social Dialogue activities of the PHS Social Partners EFFAT, EFFE, EFSI, and Uni Europa, and strengthen collective bargaining and social dialogue structures at national level. Launch in 2025 and running for 2 years, the project will notably scale up the PHS Employment Monitor to under-represented countries, and migrant communities. This Scale Up project will present an innovative approach to connect the needs and situations of workers, users, employers at local and national level to Sectoral Social Dialogue at the EU-level.
The SCALE UP Project's main contribution is to significantly enhance the capacity and effectiveness of social dialogue and collective bargaining within the Personal and Household Services (PHS) sector across the European Union. This is achieved through a multi-faceted approach that integrates data collection, stakeholder engagement, and targeted support for both employers and workers.
Consortium's Partners
EFFAT is the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, also representing domestic workers. As a European Trade Union Federation representing 116 national trade unions from 37 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of more than 25 million workers towards the European Institutions, European employers' associations, and transnational companies. EFFAT is a member of the ETUC and the European regional organisation of the IUF.
EFFE, the European Federation for Family Employment & Homecare, represents the interests of national stakeholders including social partners organisations (workers and employers) operating in the field of direct employment. This model is characterised by a contractual work relationship between two private individuals, without any trading or profit-making objective.
EFSI, the European Federation for Services to Individuals, is the voice of the Personal and Household Services sector at European level, representing national associations, employers’ organisations, PHS providers and companies involved in the development of personal and household services, and currently operating in 21 EU Member States.
UNI-Europa is the European Trade Union Federation for 7 million service workers. It speaks for the sectors that constitute the backbone of economic and social life in Europe. Headquartered in the heart of Brussels, UNI Europa represents 272 national trade unions in 50 countries, including: Commerce, Banking Insurance and Central Banks, Gaming, Graphical and Packaging, Hair and Beauty, Information and Communication Technology Services, Media, Entertainment and Arts, Postal Services and Logistics, Private Care and Social Insurance, Industrial Cleaning and Private Security, Professional Sport and Leisure, Professionals/Managers and Temporary Agency Workers.
Objective of the Project
1
Scale up the PHS Employment Monitor
2
Create a PHS Employers Network
to improve collaboration, knowledge exchange and best practices within employers and trade organisations representatives.
3
Provide training
and resources to worker and employer organisations to enhance their capacity to negotiate and bargain across the sectors at the national level.
4
Update the PHS Employer Capacity Building Toolkit
5
Foster sectoral social dialogue
in the PHS sectors at the EU-level.
6
Strengthen the dissemination and awareness
on the PHS sectors at national and EU-level.
