Transformation Of Employment Relations Research Articles

Institutions, Labor Market Insecurity, and Well-Being in Europe

We examined the differences among seventeen European countries regarding the extent to which several key institutional and labor market characteristics affect the degrees of insecurity that people feel about their jobs and employment prospects, as well as their well-being (economic security and subjective well-being). We estimate how macrostructural factors affect well-being by fitting random-intercept multi-level models and decomposing the variance across national and individual levels, using data from the 2004 and 2010 European Social Surveys. We find that there is substantial country-level variation in labor market insecurity, economic security and subjective well-being. Active labor market policies, the generosity of unemployment benefits, and collective bargaining coverage explain a considerable portion of the identified differences among countries in labor market insecurity and well-being. The effects of employment protection legislation vary depending on whether the worker has a permanent or temporary contract. We did not find substantial differences between 2004 and 2010, suggesting that the effects of institutions and worker power on labor market insecurity and well-being reflect longer-term structural changes associated with the transformation of employment relations.

Independent or Dependent? European Labour Statistics and Their (In)ability to Identify Forms of Dependency in Self-employment

In the studies on labour market change and transformation of employment relations, the growth of new forms of self-employment, including platform work, has raised a broad debate about how to define, classify, and analyse the wide range of positions within the heterogeneous category of self-employed workers. This article analyses the emergent methodologies used in European comparative labour statistics to identify forms of dependency in self-employment. Using the 6th wave of the 2015 European Working Condition Survey and the 2017 ad hoc module on self-employment from the European Labour Force Survey, this article discusses how the representation of dependent self-employment changes by adopting a different operationalization of economic and operational dependency. Findings show how different indicators of dependency change the representation of self-employment in different economic sectors, affecting our understanding of the transformation of working arrangements within self-employment and the boundaries between employment and self-employment.

Трансформация трудового правоотношения и новые формы занятости в условиях цифровой экономики

Трансформация трудового правоотношения и новые формы занятости в условиях цифровой экономики

After the social crisis: the transformation of employment relations at France Télécom

Abstract This article contributes to debates on the conditions for strengthening collective worker voice in financialized organizations. It examines change in employment relations at France Télécom/Orange (FT) following a social crisis associated with employee suicides in 2007–2009. FT’s labor unions developed creative approaches to study and publicize the negative effects of employment restructuring on workers’ psychosocial health. The common framing they developed became a source of ‘communicative power’, used to influence how the suicides were interpreted both within the firm and in the media. This power was deployed to encourage substantive social dialogue that institutionalized worker participation in management decision-making. Findings demonstrate the potentially transformative role of discursive strategies that assert the legitimacy of worker well-being as both a measure of and input to organizational performance.

LABOUR LAW ADAPTATION TO THE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

The article deals with two key challenges to the labour law associated with the digital technologies’ development: changing structure of employment in general (the shift of economy from industrial production to services’ model, emergence of the new professions accompanied with decline of the traditional ones, etc.) and transformation of employment relations because of the growing number of new types of work. The latter trend leads to the problem of erosion of the key traditional features of employment relations including the subordination and control by the employer. In the light of the first challenge, the author considers the issues of the most vulnerable group of workers — employees of the pensionary and pre-pensionary age.The second issue of transformation of employment leads the author to the proposal to start the academic debate concerning the perspectives of establishment of legal mechanisms of the economically dependent workers irrespective of their legal status (employment or civil law relations).

現代資本主義における雇用関係の変容と市場個人主義(現代と市場-経済学は市場をどう見るか,第52回大会共通論題)

現代資本主義における雇用関係の変容と市場個人主義(現代と市場-経済学は市場をどう見るか,第52回大会共通論題)

The making of industrial relations in Timor-Leste

As a new nation, Timor-Leste offers a unique case where formal industrial relations mechanisms have been developed as part of a broader project of state formation. In other words, the transformation of employment relations in the formal sector has taken place as part of regime establishment rather than regime change, as has been the case in other post-authoritarian contexts in Southeast Asia. As this first account of industrial relations in Timor-Leste demonstrates, the state has been concerned first and foremost with encouraging sustainable forms of accumulation, and the employment opportunities that accompany them, rather than with regulating labour relations. Although it has responded to pressure from international organisations to establish what could have been best-practice industrial relations institutions in the country’s tiny formal sector, these efforts have foundered as a consequence of a failure to secure employer buy-in and weak enforcement.

The Transformation of Employment Relations in EuropeJamesArrowsmith and ValeriaPulignanoRoutledge, 2013 (1st edn), 232 pp., £90

<b>The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe</b>JamesArrowsmith and ValeriaPulignanoRoutledge, 2013 (1st edn), 232 pp., £90

The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe: Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization, edited by JamesArrowsmith and ValeriaPulignano. Routledge, Abingdon, 2013, 247 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 87593 6, £80.00 hardback.

The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe: Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization, edited by JamesArrowsmith and ValeriaPulignano. Routledge, Abingdon, 2013, 247 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 87593 6, £80.00 hardback.

Book Review: The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe: Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization

Book Review: The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe: Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization

Transforming employment relations in Vietnam and Indonesia: case studies of state‐owned enterprises

This paper examines the process of transforming employment relations in Vietnam and Indonesia using case studies of two state‐owned enterprises in each country. Three factors are identified as important in the transformation process, although their impacts were different in each country: the role of the state; the influence of management and unions; and the impact of international bodies such as the International Labour Organization, the International Monetary Fund and multinational enterprises. While the role of the central government is stronger in Vietnam, particularly since the end of the Soeharto regime in Indonesia, both countries are increasingly subject to global influences and pressures. The paper utilises ‘new institutionalist’ theory to emphasise the important emergence of new institutions and their interaction with organisational changes in each country. The transformation of employment relations is likely to be an ongoing process in each country although the pace and direction of change will continue to differ, particularly given the stronger roles played by the state and unions in Vietnam compared with Indonesia

Still a Coordinated Model? Market Liberalization and the Transformation of Employment Relations in the German Telecommunications Industry

This paper examines recent changes in collective bargaining and employer strategies in the German telecommunications industry following market liberalization in the late 1990s. Germany's distinctive co-determination and vocational training institutions encouraged large firms to adopt employment systems in technician and call center workplaces that relied on high levels of worker skill and discretion. However, organizational restructuring is undermining these gains, as firms use outsourcing and the creation of subsidiaries to escape or weaken company-level collective agreements. These trends have substantially weakened unions and contributed to the further disorganization of coordinated bargaining structures. Findings are based on interviews with union and works council representatives, managers, and employees at Deutsche Telekom and its major competitors conducted between 2003 and 2007, as well as secondary analysis of company documents and industry reports.

Teachers' unions and the transformation of employment relations in public education in Portugal

This article examines the ongoing transformation of employment relations within the Portuguese public education sector as it affects teachers. It focuses on the negotiation over the amendment of the Teachers' Career Statute, initiated in May 2006, and the subsequent phases of its implementation, highlighting the recent conflict over the application of the performance evaluation system and performance-related pay. It analyses the positions of the teachers' unions and the conflicts that have emerged within the education sector, as well as the interaction of these conflicts with those of the public sector unions with regard to the overall reform of public administration. The significant resistance of teachers and the unified position of their unions in opposition to the reform measures have produced a particular dynamic in their conflict with the government.

The transformation of employment relations in the UK's old industrial regions: a regional comparison of the experience of Japanization

This contribution presents a comparative analysis of the impact of Japanese inward investment on employment relations in the North East of England and South Wales. In particular, it examines the experience of ‘Japanization’ in both regions within the context of on-going processes of employment restructuring. While there is some variation in impact between regions, overall the evidence suggests that Japanization is helping to transform the work environment. However, it is not resulting in the idealized model of harmonious employment relations depicted by some commentators, but is part of a wider shift towards a more coercive set of employment practices.

The Transformation of Employment Relations in New Zealand State-Owned Enterprises: The Assertion of Management Control

This paper examines the changes in employment relations which occurred in a number of government departments, government trading enterprises and statutory corporations as they were transformed into state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under New Zealand State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986. Under this important piece of legislation every SOE is expected to operate as a successful business which is as profitable and efficient as comparable businesses not owned by the state. Resulting changes in employment relations included the removal of centralized and bureaucratic public-sector controls, the assertion of management control in employment relations, the devolution of manage ment control, the reform of the workplace, the design of new performance appraisal and incentive mechanisms, and a focus on devices to change organ izational culture and employee commitment. As they emerge from their tran sitions, SOEs are beginning to develop a strategic human resource manage ment perspective.

Negotiating Transformation: Bargaining Lessons Learned From the Transformation of Employment Relations.

A close look at fundamental changes in U.S. industrial relations provides fertile ground for extending negotiations theory. Preliminary evidence is presented from case studies on changing patterns ...