Trade unions and employers’ organisations play an important role in ELA’s activities and can actively contribute to ELA’s mandate:

they have a dedicated advisory body in the ELA administrative and management structure, the Stakeholder Group;
social partners are non-voting members of the Management Board;
they are part of the European Platform to enhance cooperation in tackling undeclared work and other working groups of ELA;
national social partners can bring cases to the attention of ELA;
they can cooperate with ELA on the assessment of risks and analyses regarding labour mobility and social security coordination across the Union;
social partners can be asked to contribute to developing common non-binding guidelines.

Facts and figures

Sectors of ELA’s recent focus in which Social Partners are actively engaged

Construction, HORECA, road transport.

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Stakeholder Group meetings & outreach events

The Stakeholder Group has met 14 times. ELA fosters active cooperation with social partners also through outreach events, liaison activities and trainings.

Social partners' representatives, members of ELA Stakeholder Group

How to

Engage with ELA!

EU social partners and national social partners can engage and partner with ELA. The requests will be handled depending on the nature of the questions.

Bring a case to the attention of ELA

Social partner organizations at national level can bring cases to the attention of ELA. Read the Guidance to know the full workflow and relevant contact points!