The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials

Corbett, William R.

Zimmer, Michael J.

Blanpain, Roger

Bisom-Rapp, Susan

Josephs, Hilary K.

Business

Cambridge University Press

With the forces of globalization as a backdrop, this pathbreaking casebook develops labor and employment law in the context of the national laws of nine countries important to the global economy -- U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Germany, France, China, Japan and India. National materials are contextualized by coverage of international labor standards promulgated by the International Labor Organization, as well as the principles that emerge from two regional trade arrangements -- the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union -- and TNC's self-regulatory efforts. Instructor resources include an extensive teachers' manual, powerpoint slides, and a website providing updates in this broad and fast-moving subject.

The Global Workplace

Foreign & International Law

Dramatic events have held back the transformation of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) into a democratic society with a functional, private ownership economy. Most recently, recession in the Western countries and the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union have proven barriers to such a metamorphosis. This volume provides a comparative overview of the ongoing changes in the legal regulation of industrial relations in the CEEC. It discusses the current transformation and development taking place in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia, and provides the reader with an insight into how the fall of communism and the transition to market economies have affected the field of labour law throughout the region. Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Central and Eastern Europe offers a unique examination of the effects of numerous factors and forces on the field of labour law in this actively-changing region.

Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Central and Eastern Europe:From Planned to a Market Economy (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

Business & Money

Economics

Kluwer Law International

European Labour Law

This title deals with European labour law and industrial relations. It covers the legislation concerning relations between employers and employees in the private and public sectors, as well as the structure and strategies of the social actors. It contains three parts: a general section, one devoted to individual law, and a third that deals with collective labour law. This edition is an update and all the latest developments are covered.

Springer

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 conference covers the most significant recently-passed legislation, starting with the European Works Council Directive of 22 December 1994, and ending with the Treaty of Amsterdam presented in June 1997. The bulk of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union focuses on the European Works Council Directive currently in force throughout all EU Member States and the EEA countries, except the United Kingdom. The discussion concentrates on the implementation process in the Member States, with national reports presented in alphabetical order by country, and additional reports from EEA countries, North America, and Japan. The wide range of issues also discussed in this work includes: The important, recently passed Posting of Workers Directive which addresses the working conditions for sub-contracting, working in a group, or temporary work; The first European collective agreement concluded on Parental Leave; Fundamental Social Rights and their treatment at the Intergovernmental Conference of June 1997; Developments on working time regulations within the EU; and The newly promulgated Treaty of Amsterdam, with a focus on the social provisions.

Labour Law Industrial (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations Series Set)

This Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor Roger Blanpain was presented to the Professor on the occasion of the 11th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, held in Bologna, Italy, in September 1998. The more than forty contributions in this book vary as widely in topic as the vast range of books written by Professor Blanpain himself in the almost forty years of his academic career. Each contributor was given the freedom to write on a topic within the main field of Professor Blanpain's interest: labour law and industrial relations. The result is a unique collection of essays by some of the greatest names in that field: from an examination of national and regional developments to an analysis of conceptual problems and global issues. It is a work worthy to be dedicated to one of the greatest academics of the 20th century in the field of labour law.

Labour Law and Industrial Relations at the Turn of the Century:Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor Roger Blanpain

A number of practices in today's `wired' workplace threaten several fundamental rights. More and more, employees are expected to curtail their right to communicate and their right to access to information. Their right to privacy may also be breached by monitoring of their e-mail and Internet activity. Although employers have legitimate reasons for such restrictive or invasive measures and clearly have their own right to supervise the use of company property it can no longer be denied that the legal and even moral issues that arise from the new reality of work in the information society demand serious and detailed consideration if labour law's role as a vital component of the employment relationship is to survive. In this very significant book, crucial questions arising in the context of the new world of work are explored by a distinguished gathering of academics, civil servants, trade union representatives, managers, employees and students from sixteen countries. The Conference, held in Brussels in November 2000, was co-sponsored by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Union Network International, UNI-Europa, and the Euro-Japan Institute for Law and Business. Participants analyzed trends and the ever-increasing possibilities and opportunities to communicate, monitoring included, in order to clarify such issues as the following: `on-line rights' and the form they should take in the workplace; employer liability for damage to third parties caused by e-mail or Internet activity; sexual harassment via e-mail or Internet activity; protection against hackers and other security measures; safeguarding confidentiality, both employer's and employee's; and the right to personal use of the company's communications technology. These and other aspects of the growing conflict between managerial prerogative and the right to privacy in the workplace are here given a fuller and more provocative treatment than is available in any other single source.

On-Line Rights for Employees in the Information Society:Use and Monitoring of E-Mail and Internet at Work (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

Business Culture

Labour, industrial relations and HRM specialists in Europe and elsewhere will watch with great interest the course of developments growing out of the pending EC directive on information and consultation rights of employees. Taken in conjunction with the European Works Council Directive and the European Company Statute, this directive tries to strengthen a growing spirit of cooperation between employees and employers.   Here now is a timely and detailed new book that sets the scene with 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.  Questions central to both the legislative debate and to this book include: How will the information and consultation rights be organised?  What can be learned from the experience of the European Works Council Directive (1994), now that more than 600 EWCs have been established by agreements between management and labour?  What is the role of trade unions and collective bargaining?  What role can employees play in the exercise of managerial prerogative?  What will be the impact on the employability of the employees?   In his analysis Professor Blanpain shows that European lawmakers are now answering these questions aiming at clarity and coherence. The definitions (especially in the European Company Statute) of such terms as "involvement", "consultation", "information", and "participation", are careful to leave the notion of managerial prerogative intact.

Involvement of Employees in the European Union:European Works Councils, The European Company Statute, Information and Consultation Rights (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

History

Europe

At the time of his brutal murder in March 2002, Marco Biagi was working with Italian legislators to find ways and means of bringing innovative proposals in his field of expertise, labour and industrial relations, to productive fruition. The White Paper , to a large extent the work of Biagi himself, was commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and first presented to the government in October 2001. The other collaborative work included in this volume, The "Europeanisation" of Industrial Relations and Changing Industrial Relations are among Professor Biagi's last writings.  At the core of these deeply committed studies lies a direct and positive response to the violent clash between the modern European heritage of social security and the unstoppable onset of globalisation. That such a response proved fatal is a potent reminder of perhaps the deepest rift in our society, a dangerously widening divide that demands the scrutiny and understanding of all lawyers, policymakers, and social scientists. This book clearly demonstrates that, for Biagi and his co-authors, such terms as "employability", "flexibility", "quality", and "security" must become measured legal terms representing social realities for employees as well as employers, and cannot be mere empty words masking "business as usual".  The importance of the White Paper cannot be overestimated, especially for Italy. Among the EU member states preparing to meet the standards of sustainable economic growth set out by the European Councils of Lisbon and Stockholm, Italy has the longest road to travel. For that very reason – and because of the seriousness of social unrest in Italy – its travails in this area can be seen as emblematic of an immense global social crisis that lurks in every country.  The second study in this volume analyses criteria for the quality of industrial relations in the EU as compared with those prevailing in the US, Japan, Russia, and the CEECs. Although each industrialised country has its own particular traditions and pressures to deal with in the world of work, this study finds evidence everywhere of intense change as well as persistent continuity. Furthermore, these commentators find that an overall European model of industrial relations cannot yet be discerned. Their recommendations, scrupulously built on existing realities, provide for a cohesive system including monitoring, incentives, interactions between different levels of policy making, new regulatory processes, and appropriate indicators, all of which will ensure an EU-wide improvement in quality of life both inside and outside work without weakening each member State's responsibility and freedom to define its own policies.  As an unflinching corrective to the sterile ideology that paralyzes progress in this vital area of social development, these two works are of great significance. They do not wave a magic wand and resolve the intractable issues with which they are concerned, but they succeed in isolating the essential elements of the problem and take a giant step toward understanding and a beginning of consensus.  The third part offers a few comments on the Report of the High-Level Group on Industrial Relations and Managing Change in the European Union.

The Quality of White Paper on the Labor Market in Italy (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

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The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials

The Global Workplace

The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials

Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Central and Eastern Europe:From Planned to a Market Economy (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

European Labour Law

Labour Law Industrial (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations Series Set)

Labour Law and Industrial Relations at the Turn of the Century:Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor Roger Blanpain

On-Line Rights for Employees in the Information Society:Use and Monitoring of E-Mail and Internet at Work (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

Involvement of Employees in the European Union:European Works Councils, The European Company Statute, Information and Consultation Rights (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

The Quality of White Paper on the Labor Market in Italy (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)