Awareness, Knowledge and Exercise of Individual Employment Rights

The Impact of Labour Regulations: Measuring the Effectiveness of Legal Norms in a Developing Country

“…Worker awareness and enforcement of legal measures has emerged as a subject for research in industrialized countries in part due to an awareness of growing vulnerability within increasingly individualized regulatory frameworks (Pollert 2005;Meager et al 2002). As collective mechanisms decline and legislated individual rights become more significant, the enforcement of these entitlements has been displaced from its rather peripheral position within the labour law debates and ushered to centre-stage.…”

“…Holt and Grainger 2005;Meager et al 2002;White and Croucher 2007; on the 'New Labour' labour law project in the UK see further Davies and Freedland 2007). In this context, and with backing from a government eager to measure the influence of the legislated standards, a literature developed that is centred on workers' awareness of employment rights and the techniques they use to assert their legal entitlements.…”

Holes in the Safety Net? State Liability and the Need for Private Law Enforcement

“…Recent studies into the knowledge and awareness of various EC-based employment rights of workers in the UK has demonstrated that there are significant gaps in their awareness (Marson 2002, Meager et al 2002 ). The source of these workers' rights has been found to be largely influenced by the employer (Marson 2002) and a report by the Blackburn and Hart (2002) 67 has discovered that employers often have little knowledge of the full extent of employment rights themselves.…”

Labour Law Awareness of Employees: A Comparison From Germany and Turkey

“…In this context employees who have high awareness of their rights will contribute to the forming of the appropriate climate which will lower the dispute frequencies. Meager et al (2002) and Casebourne et al(2006) also state that being aware of employment rights may protect employees from having problems at work and may help them resolve these problems. Shackleton (2002) has stated that employees without having sound knowledge about their rights and obligations have claims that are not in line with the law.…”

“…So our belief, also supported by Shackleton (2002), Meager et al (2002), Casebourne et al (2006)and Cooke (2008), that lack of knowledge and low awareness of labour law is a major factor in disputes between employers and employees led us to design this study.…”