Improving Workplace Quality: New Pespectives and Challenges for Worker Well-Being (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

About this book: Improving Workplace Quality casts light on the most recent developments in the field of worker well-being with contributions from a number of disciplinary domains (law, economics, organization theory, sociology, etc.). A consensus has developed in workplace studies around the concept of well-being at work in an awareness that such apparently distinct aspects as health and safety, discrimination, labour market integration, and work-life balance converge in the workplace and are best treated as one complex phenomenon. This important book provides an in-depth analysis of ongoing changes in the world of work and their impact on personal well-being. The contributors place specific workplace experiences in a comparative perspective, examining policy and regulatory initiatives and judicial rulings at national, regional, and international levels. What s in this book: This book offers twelve contributions by distinguished international scholars from a range of disciplinary domains the case studies are drawn from Italy, France, the United States, Russia, and other developing countries. The essays examine recent legal developments in such topical issues as:atypical and non-standard workchildcare leavecompany-level welfare provisionsdisabilityharassmentlow-wage workers and employment benefitsmisperception discriminationpublic policy in care servicesunemployment and mental health; and work/family conciliation policies. How this will help you: This book covers an increasingly popular topic from various perspectives providing a detailed overview of recent developments in policy and jurisprudence regarding discrimination, work-life balance, and workers integration into the labour market as well as a guide to best practices in promoting well-being at work. As a stimulus for further reflection in relation to innovative measures in the field of worker well-being, this book proves indispensable to labour and employment law practitioners, as well as to work organization, occupational medicine, mental health, and human resources professionals.