Are European Works Councils Ready for Brexit? An inside look

Spiegelaere, Stan De; Jagodziński, Romuald

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“… Source: De Spiegelaere and Jagodzinski (2015). a Both listed and unlisted companies are included, since the ETUI database does not differentiate between these. …”

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Management, European Works Councils and institutional malleability

Pulignano

Waddington

2019

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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We show that most managers responsible for European Works Councils do not comply with the information and consultation requirements stipulated in legislation, and cite stock market regulations as the principal reason for non-compliance. Compared to employee representatives, managers also downplay the importance of articulation between European Works Councils and national institutions of labour representation, using them to achieve managerial objectives. We thus illustrate the ‘malleability’ of European Works Councils and argue that further regulatory intervention is required if they are to function as information and consultation institutions as originally intended by EU policy makers.

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“… Source: De Spiegelaere and Jagodzinski (2015). a Both listed and unlisted companies are included, since the ETUI database does not differentiate between these. …”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Management, European Works Councils and institutional malleability

Pulignano

Waddington

2019

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…In the identification of the clusters all responses were used (step 1 in the analysis). For the subsequent steps 2 and 3, only those respondents from the sample are used and a weighting variable applied to correct for the selective non-response (De Spiegelaere et al , 2021).…”

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“…For the descriptive statistics of the other categorical variables, we refer to earlier publications focusing on these topics (e.g. De Spiegelaere et al , 2021; De Spiegelaere and Jagodziński, 2019).…”

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Putting a number on it: a latent profile approach to the typology of European Works Councils

Spiegelaere

2021

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PurposeIdentify the different types of experiences of European Works Council (EWC) members based on the four fields of interaction of EWCs and evaluate their relative presence.Design/methodology/approachLatent profile analysis using survey data of over 1600 EWC representatives from more than 300 EWCs.FindingsFive different types of EWC experience are identified (marginalized, dominated, spearhead, participative and transnational forum). After 22 years of experience with EWCs, only a small minority of EWC representatives consider their EWC to be a participative structure. While trade union support and training increase the value of belonging to a well-functioning EWC type, they are not enough to circumvent structural obstacles. Additionally the analysis shows that domination by some countries in the functioning of an EWC is not always negative as this experience is present in both well- and ill-functioning EWC types.Research limitations/implicationsThe article argues that research should focus more on the moments of regression which EWCs face; and take a more nuanced approach to the domination by some countries of how EWCs function.Social implicationsThe article adds to the growing body of evidence that argues for structural intervention to improve EWC functioning.Originality/valueThis article uses insights from comparative case study research to cross-validate the findings using quantitative methods.

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“…The number of Polish researchers working outside Poland and contributing to continuous international exchange of ideas is growing. The topics tackled by them include, for instance, social dumping (Bernaciak, 2015), European Works Councils (De Spiegelaere and Jagodziński, 2015), trade union organising (Krzywdzinski, 2010) or international trade union solidarity (Gajewska, 2009).…”

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Industrial relations in Poland

Czarzasty

Mrozowicki

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the interrelations between the evolution of industrial relations (IR) and IR research in Poland in the historical context. Two questions are put forward: How was the evolution of the IR system in Poland influenced by the re-constitution of a particular model of the capitalism and the strategies and struggle of IR actors? How were the ways of approaching and theorizing IR influenced by the aforementioned evolution? Design/methodology/approach The paper draws upon academic literature, secondary data on actors and processes of IR as well as four expert interviews with the representatives of the first generation of IR scholars in Poland. Findings The paper suggests that the development of the IR system and the related scholarship can be divided into three phases: the pre-1989 period characterised by the lack of autonomous interests representation and rather limited IR research; the early development of the post-1989 IR system marked by the debates on the integrative role of IR as peacekeeping mechanism in the period of deep economic and political changes (1989-2004); the post-EU accession consolidation of the IR system characterised by the weakness of the IR actors vis-à-vis the state and increasing neo-etatist tendencies. Originality/value This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the relationships between the emergent models of Eastern European capitalism and the evolution of IR systems. It critically analyses the state of the discussion on the IR field Poland emphasising the relevance of political-economic factors as well as the ideology of “social peace” for both the evolution of the IR system in the country and the state of the IR debate.

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Are European Works Councils Ready for Brexit? An inside look

Cited by 9 publications

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Management, European Works Councils and institutional malleability

Management, European Works Councils and institutional malleability

Putting a number on it: a latent profile approach to the typology of European Works Councils

Industrial relations in Poland

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