European Works Councils And Industrial Relations

Author : Wolfgang Lecher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351788302
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Works Councils written by Wolfgang Lecher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. The emergence of the European Works Councils (EWCs) is one of the most important developments in international industrial relations and the most significant intervention by the European Union in the industrial relations field. This volume is the second of three studies into the establishment and operation of EWCs conducted by the authors. It examines the development of a typology of EWCs and explores the prospects for establishing networks of EWCs, using case studies drawn from the food, banking and insurance sectors. The book is an informative text for researchers, academics and practitioners who wish to locate empirical material and practical experience in a developmental and theoretical framework.

Author : Jeremy Waddington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136913491
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Works Councils and Industrial Relations written by Jeremy Waddington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of European Works Councils is arguably the most important measure taken in global industrial relations in recent years. Adopted with the primary goal of facilitating European-level workers’ participation in information-sharing and consultation in multinational companies, EWCs have also been central to a wide-ranging process of institution-building at the European level. European Works Councils charts the growth in the number of EWCs and the development of practices associated with EWCs between 1994, when legislation on EWCs was adopted, and 2009, when the initial legislation was amended. Drawing on original, large-scale, survey data, the book shows that the quality of information and consultation is generally poor, thus bringing into question the soft touch legislative approach to employee participation of the European Commission. The reforms implemented within trade union organizations to accommodate the development of EWCs are explored, together with the initiatives taken to extend the role of EWCs beyond information and consultation to incorporate negotiation. Articulation between EWCs and trade union organizations is shown to be integral to EWCs as institutions of information and consultation, and as a means to influence managerial decision-making. Similarly, the development of EWCs is shown to be a process contested by employers’ organizations and managers on the one hand and labour organizations on the other. The character of this contestation ensures that the category ‘EWC’ includes a wide range of institutional forms and practices.

Author : Wolfgang Lecher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429800843
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Establishment of European Works Councils written by Wolfgang Lecher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume evaluates the context, role and development of EWCs through eight case studies and asks whether EWCs will promote the Europeanisation of Industrial relations. The EWCs were the first European institution in the field of social policy and went far beyond simply requiring national implementation of a common framework. They were innovative in their requirements for a judicious blend of subsidiarity, shared responsibility and flexibility. This study represents the culmination of research carried out between September 1996 and September 1997 and sets out to anchor a number of qualitative case-studies in a systematic, nationally comparative approach.

Author : Joel Rogers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226723798
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works Councils written by Joel Rogers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the influence of labor unions declines in many industrialized nations, particularly the United States, the influence of workers has decreased. Because of the need for greater involvement of workers in changing production systems, as well as frustration with existing structures of workplace regulation, the search has begun for new ways of providing a voice for workers outside the traditional collective bargaining relationship. Works councils—institutionalized bodies for representative communication between an employer and employees in a single workplace—are rare in the Anglo-American world, but are well-established in other industrialized countries. The contributors to this volume survey the history, structure, and functions of works councils in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Canada, and the United States. Special attention is paid to the relations between works councils and unions and collective bargaining, works councils and management, and the role and interest of governments in works councils. On the basis of extensive comparative data from other Western countries, the book demonstrates powerfully that well-designed works councils may be more effective than labor unions at solving management-labor problems.

Author : Roger Blanpain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Works Councils in Multinational Enterprises written by Roger Blanpain and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Whittall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134139543
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a European Labour Identity written by Michael Whittall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1996 a growing number of European employees have access to a European works council (EWC), a transnational employee body designed to complement national forms of labour representation . This volume brings together a hep hive of contributors who present valuable new insights into how employee representatives from different European countries perform their jobs as members of European Works Councils in an attempt to develop some sense of a common European labour identity The transnational character of the EWC makes it an ideal microscopic structure through which the wider discourse surrounding identity – especially when associated with globalization, Europeanization, and mobility – can occur. ‘Towards a European Labour Identity’ examines not only the workings of the EWCs, utilising individual case studies, but also analyses and asses the link with the broader discussions on European identity as well as European trade union co-ordination and solidarity.

Author : Roger Blanpain
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789041117601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Involvement of Employees in the European Union:European Works Councils, The European Company Statute, Information and Consultation Rights written by Roger Blanpain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken in conjunction with the European Works Council Directive and the European Company Statute, the EC directive on information and consultation rights of employees aims to strengthen a growing spirit of co-operation between employees and employers. This book offers in-depth analysis, legislative history, and documentation of the interwoven genesis of these three crucially important labour law initiatives and their impact on industrial relations and HRM.

Author : Ian Fitzgerald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113439070X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Works Councils written by Ian Fitzgerald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the key themes related to the introduction, growth development and future of European Works Councils: the European Works Council Directive itself, European Works Council Agreements, Employers' strategies for managing European Works Councils in practice and trade union strategies for the development of European Works Councils. The book features contributions from key writers in the field and covers both theoretical models and questions of practice.

Author : Christian Engels
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789041112163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Works Councils in Belgium written by Christian Engels and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European works councils will have to be established in companies and groups of companies of a significant overall size and with a significant presence in at least two different Member States. It is clear that the number of affected companies, undertakings or establishments and certainly the overall number of affected workers is very high. European works councils are therefore an important phenomenon in European industrial relations. Practitioners and academics the world over need a handy instrument providing easy access to information regarding the European Directive and its significance and implementation in Member States of both the EC and the EEA. This book provides such a tool with regards to Belgium. The national legislation of Member States remains of the utmost importance, even though the establishment of a European works council within a given Community-scale undertaking or group as such is not governed by national, in this case Belgian, law. The involvement of Belgian employees in the transnational information and consultation process will, to a large extent, be subject to Belgian law in those European works councils that are established in companies or groups with subsidiary establishments in Belgium. In those cases, for example, Belgian law determines who will represent the Belgian employees in the negotiations of the Special Negotiating Body, and Belgian law determines the protection of the employee representatives in terms of wages and dismissal, etc.In light of all this, a combined study of both the European Directive and the Belgian implementing legislative measures is warranted.

Author : Walter Kolvenbach
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489961224
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Employee Councils in European Companies written by Walter Kolvenbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: