Autor: R. Blanpain

The workers in modern businesses face growing pressure as they attempt to combine their work with a family life and its associated responsibilities. This is a very relevant issue in many countries, b …

This work presents the discussion highlights and papers from the 28-29 April 1997 Conference held by the Euro-Japan Institute for Law and Business in Leuven-Belgium.The work from this lively, focused …

Even in countries which regard themselves as model democracies, such as the United States of America, the situation at the workplace may be entirely different with regard to the basic freedoms and eq …

A generation ago, temporary work was practically outlawed. During the 1950s, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) clearly stated (in request to a question from the Swedish government) that tem …

No one denies that the institution of collective bargaining between workers and employers has been a powerful tool for social dialogue. Without our history of effective collective bargaining there wo …

This volume provides a comparative overview of the ongoing changes in the legal regulation of industrial relations in the Central and Eastern European countries. It discusses the current transformati …

This volume provides a comparative overview of the ongoing changes in the legal regulation of industrial relations in the Central and Eastern European countries. It discusses the current transformati …

The role of state or the function of labour law during industrialization in Asian countries is of utmost importance when examining how Asian labour laws differ from European or American labour law mo …

Since the onset of globalisation, protective labour legislation has been deeply eroded throughout the industrialised world. In its place we have a plethora of new employment phenomena such as flexibl …

Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations …

Workers’ participation continues to be an important and much debated, even contested, subject in industrial relations and human resource management. It is also a topic which evolves as the labour for …

This publication gives an overview of the criteria of the existence of an employment relationship in the following 10 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Th …

Recorded in this volume are some papers presented at an international symposium in comparative industrial relations held in Bologna on 11 January 1991, organized by SINNEA, research and training inst …

At the time of his brutal murder in March 2002, Marco Biagi was working with the Italian authorities to find ways and means of bringing innovative proposals in his field of expertise, labor and indus …

In recent years, a number of company bankruptcies in Europe – particularly in the Netherlands – have exposed serious gaps in the securing by law of reparations due to employees. As matters stand, emp …

Labour, industrial relations and HRM specialists in Europe and elsewhere will watch with great interest the course of developments growing out of the EC directive on information and consultation righ …

Although no-one disputes that employment relations worldwide have been greatly affected by globalisation, no clear consensus has emerged on the nature and significance of this impact. The seven contr …

Far from settling into a recognisable pattern, the new employment relationship spawned by globalisation and communications technology continues to evolve. If the labour law and industrial relations c …