an article by Mikkel Mailand (Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS), University of Copenhagen) published in Industrial Relations Journal Volume 44 Issue 3 (May 2013)
Abstract
The present article discusses whether the strengthening of the regulation-sceptical actors during the 2000s has affected the scope and content of EU-level regulation in two work-and-employment-related areas, and the role coalitions have played in the decision-making processes.
In the employee involvement area, the pro-regulation forces still appeared able to get new regulation adopted and to prevent unwanted regulation from being adopted.
In the employment policy area, a few examples of successful attempts by the regulation-sceptical actors to slow down Social Europe were found, but these were fewer than could be expected.
One explanation for this relatively weak impact might be that the Commission’s search for legitimacy in order to be re-elected functions as an ‘automatic stabiliser’. Contrary to studies of previous processes, no solid coalitions were found in any of the cases analysed, although several actors took positions as expected.
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Thursday, 30 May 2013
Monday, 3 December 2012
Social dialogue in times of global economic crisis
a Report (ref: ef1221) by Rachel Guyet, David Tarren and Claude-Emmanuel Triomphe published by eurofound (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions)
Summary
Social dialogue is one of the cornerstones of social Europe and involves employers, workers and their representatives, and, in tripartite structures, also public authorities in the discussions and negotiations which shape social policy and industrial relations.
This study seeks to establish how far Member States were willing or able to use social dialogue as a tool to mitigate the effects of the financial downturn in the wake of the profound global economic crisis which began in autumn 2008.
It analyses where it was used, how effective it was and also identifies the factors that could make it more or less likely that the social partners would be involved in efforts to respond to the crisis.
Full text (PDF 92pp)
Summary
Social dialogue is one of the cornerstones of social Europe and involves employers, workers and their representatives, and, in tripartite structures, also public authorities in the discussions and negotiations which shape social policy and industrial relations.
This study seeks to establish how far Member States were willing or able to use social dialogue as a tool to mitigate the effects of the financial downturn in the wake of the profound global economic crisis which began in autumn 2008.
It analyses where it was used, how effective it was and also identifies the factors that could make it more or less likely that the social partners would be involved in efforts to respond to the crisis.
Full text (PDF 92pp)
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