OECD Conference Centre – Paris
9 September 2011
Agenda
9:00 - 9:10
Welcome to Participants and Introduction |
Mario Marcel - Chair |
9:10 – 9:30
Tour de Table |
Participants introduction by OECD country delegates |
9:30 – 10:45 Session 1
Preliminary findings on compensation of public employees |
Compensation of employees in OECD countries is a crucial issue to enhance the productivity of government employees. The compensation of employees represents a significant percentage of public expenditure, but it is also a core component of HRM policies to attract, retain, and motivate competent employees.
The aim of this session
Presentation by Secretariat Howard Risher
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11:00 – 12:30 Session 2
How are compensation systems evolving to ensure capacity? |
Adjusting the size of compensation of government employees to meet fiscal targets and return to balanced budgets without jeopardising government’s capacity and employees morale and commitment, is one of the challenges facing OECD countries nowadays. Countries are interested in more flexible models of compensation enabling a managerial approach to pay setting.
This aim of this session
Presentation from member countries
David R. Livingstone
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14:00 – 15:20 Session 3
How is pay established? Towards more flexible pay systems |
Establishing pay levels to recruit and retain a sufficient number of employees with adequate skills, competencies and motivation is critical to ensure capacity for service delivery. However, faced with limited tax revenues, governments have to search for more cost-efficient and cost-effective ways to compensate public servants for their services.
The aim of this session
Findings and conclusions of "OECD Public Governance Review of Slovenia - Compensation in the Public Service"
Questions and Discussion
Branko Vidic (Slovenia)
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15:20 – 16:20 Session 4
The evolving role of public sector unions in salary negotiation |
Unions and collective bargaining play an important and long standing role in virtually all OECD countries. Leaders in every country pay attention to stakeholders and that clearly includes government employees.
Unions are unable to control the supply and demand for labour but they have a role in deciding how employers respond to market developments.
The aim of this session
Presentation from member countries Robert Cloarec (Sweden)
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16:40 – 17:50 Session 5
Assessing performance-related pay: what new challenges? |
Traditional pay systems with common grading systems, associated pay scales and seniority-based pay progression in the scales, have been felt to be too rigid for the development of modern human resource management and for strengthened performance orientation. Thus, countries looked at performance-related pay systems as a means to increase not only flexibility in setting pay but also to attract, retain, and motivate a talented workforce.
The aim of this session
Presentation from member countries
Inge Friis Svendsen (Denmark) |
17:50 – 17:55
Next Steps in the OECD work on compensation of public employees |
Oscar Huerta Melchor |
17:55- 18:00
Final remarks and closing |
Mario Marcel - Chair |
18:00
Cocktail |
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