Labour/Management Programme (LMP) Final Reports, 2004

Formal relations between the OECD and representatives of trade unions and of business and industry in Member countries are conducted through two organisations officially recognised by the OECD Council. These are the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC). In addition to various forms of policy discussion throughout the year, arrangements provide for meetings at the technical level, which do not engage the responsibility of the organisations. Such meetings are held either in the form of ad hoc discussions with the Secretariat, or under the Labour/Management Programme in the form of meetings devoted to specific themes.

After meetings held under the Programme, a rapporteur draws up a report of the discussion on his own responsibility, for distribution to the social partners and to the relevant OECD Committees. The opinions expressed in such reports are those of the rapporteur, except where they are specifically attributed to individual participants, and do not necessarily reflect the views of other participants or of the OECD.

• 5 November 2004, Joint Meeting of Management and Trade Union Experts on: Higher Education, Research and Innovation: Partnership and Mobility in a globalised Economy 
  A meeting of OECD Science and Technology Ministers in January 2004 devoted much discussion to the mobility of higher education and research personnel as well as supply and demand for researchers and the relationship between higher education institutions and the private sector.
  As these issues are important to both employers and employees, BIAC and TUAC felt that it would be useful to address the mobility question in more detail with OECD experts. The resulting one-day joint seminar focussed on two main themes: " Rethinking higher education in a global economy" and "International mobility of higher education and research personnel".