2024 startpage: 21 str. eng https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:35796 European Union; Project Barmetal Introduction The report aims at presenting the main challenges/changes relevant for working conditions with respect to digitalisation, automatization and decarbonization in the Serbian metalworking industry. It provides relevant inputs for the BARMETAL Project's main research question on how the new forms of work and training related to these changes are addressed or can be addressed via collective bargaining. The main focus is on the importance of reskilling and up-skilling as relevant topics that need to be included in broader social dialogue and collective bargaining on various levels. To collect relevant data, a combination of desk and field research methods was applied. Secondary data were collected from a variety of sources including peer-reviewed articles and monographs, strategic documents and analytical reports, legal documents, newspapers and press releases and institutional web sites. Primary data were collected in field research based on qualitative research techniques which included company visits and personal interviews with relevant stakeholders. Chapter 1 provides a brief description of the labour market in Serbia, with a special focus on employment and basic economic indicators in the metal industry, in particular of three selected sub-sectors. Chapter 2 provides a deeper insight into industrial relations and collective bargaining in the metal industry. Chapter 3 describes government initiatives and a strategic framework for industrial development based on a new industrial policy coupled with smart specialisation and low carbon print strategies. Chapter 4 brings a few examples of DAD strategies implemented in Serbian companies as well as DAD effects on working conditions and collective bargaining. Case study analyses of two selected companies are presented in Chapter 5. After a brief methodological note and justification of cases, the chapter provides a deeper insight into company-level collective bargaining, ongoing digitalization and automatization processes and their effects on working conditions, skill related changes and initiatives to develop adequate training programs. The main findings are presented at the end of report with an aim to provide inputs and ideas for policy makers and other stakeholders interested in initiating social dialogue on the new topics emerging from DAD related changes and its effects on the labour force in Serbia. Funded by the European Union, BARMETAL,Project No. 101052331 Keywords: digitalization, automatization, decarbonization, metal sector Digitalization, Automatization and Decarbonization: Opportunity for Strengthening Collective Bargaining in the Metal Sector : Serbia Policy Report Ognjanov, Galjina Arandarenko, Mihail Aleksić, Dragan All rights reserved info:eu-repo/semantics/dataset application/pdf 1314143 bytes