To make it more clear, social dialogue can mean negotiation, consultation or simply an exchange of views between representatives of employers, workers and governments.
[3] The aim of social dialogue is to advance opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equality, security and human dignity.
Social dialogue includes all types of negotiation, consultation and exchange of information between, or among, representatives of governments, employers and workers on issues of common interest[4] 1.
Strong, independent workers' and employers' organizations with the technical capacity and knowledge required to participate in social dialogue.
Consultation： Consultation exceeds information sharing, it needs exchanging perspective, opinion, ideas, and forms a deep conversation.
Take Croatia for example, government and social partner couldn't have consensus on adoption to overcome economic crisis in terms of public cost decrease and job saving through bargaining in several months.
Except for collective bargaining, it highlighted the discussion in tripartism on the issues of employment policy and human resource development.
For instance, the Wassenaar Agreement signed in the Netherlands in 1982, and Denmark advocated the national recovery program with Ireland in 1987.