Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Private security

This study aims to provide the necessary information for assisting the existing sectoral social dialogue in the private security sector. It identifies the relevant national organisations on both sides of the industry and analyses the European organisations pertaining to the sector. The study comprises three parts: a summary of the sector’s economic background; an analysis of the social partner organisations in all EU Member States (with the exception of Latvia and Greece), focusing on membership, role in collective bargaining and public policy, and national and European affiliations; and, finally, an analysis of the relevant European organisations, particularly their membership composition and their capacity to negotiate. The series of representativeness studies aims to identify relevant national and supranational social partner organisations in selected sectors. They derive from the European Commission’s desire to recognise the representative social partner organisations to be consulted under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).