Precarious work and labour regulation in the EU: current reality and perspectives

Florczak, Izabela; Otto, Marta

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“…Increasing globalization and associated migrant labour challenge the job quality in the part of the labour market characterized by low wages and unskilled workers. For instance, precarious employment is currently a major concern in Europe’s labour markets and workers’ rights are under pressure [ 62 ]. However, work environment factors—for example, exposure to high workload, high work pace and other factors that cause work related illness and sickness absenteeism are also frequently found in workplaces situated in countries with well-developed and robust labour relations, strong employment protection and active labour market policies such as the Nordic countries [ 63 – 65 ].…”

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The Norwegian version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III): Initial validation study using a national sample of registered nurses

Ose,

Lohmann-Lafrenz,

Bernstrøm

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Background Employers are legally obligated to ensure the safety and health of employees, including the organizational and psychosocial working environment. The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III) covers multiple dimensions of the work environment. COPSOQ III has three parts: a) work environment b) conflicts and offensive behaviours and c) health and welfare. We translated all three parts into Norwegian and evaluated the statistical properties of the 28 work environment dimensions in part a), using a sample of registered nurses. Methods The original English version was translated into Norwegian and back translated into English; the two versions were compared, and adjustments made. In total, 86 of 99 items from the translated version were included in a survey to which 8804 registered nurses responded. Item response theory models designed for ordinal manifest variables were used to evaluate construct validity and identify potential redundant items. A standard confirmatory factor analysis was performed to verify the latent dimensionality established in the original version, and a more exploratory factor analysis without restrictions is included to determine dependency between items and to identify separable dimensions. Results The measure of sampling adequacy shows that the data are well suited for factor analyses. The latent dimensionality in the original version is confirmed in the Norwegian translated version and the scale reliability is high for all dimensions except ‘Demands for Hiding Emotions’. In this homogenous sample, eight of the 28 dimensions are found not to be separate dimensions as items covering these dimensions loaded onto the same factor. Moreover, little information is provided at the low and high ends of exposure for some dimensions in this sample. Of the 86 items included, 14 are found to be potential candidates for removal to obtain a shorter Norwegian version. Conclusion The established Norwegian translation of COPSOQ III can be used in further research about working environment factors and health and wellbeing in Norway. The extended use of the instrument internationally enables comparative studies, which can increase the knowledge and understanding of similarities and differences between labour markets in different countries. This first validation study shows that the Norwegian version has strong statistical properties like the original, and can be used to assess work environment factors, including relational and emotional risk factors and resources available at the workplace.

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The Norwegian version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III): Initial validation study using a national sample of registered nurses

Ose,

Lohmann-Lafrenz,

Bernstrøm

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PLoS ONE

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“…Economic growth and pressures from trade unions led to successful minimum wage increases, while social dialogue was also restored in all three states. Unemployment levels also began to slowly fall towards their pre-crisis levels (Eurostat, 2022), while in all three countries non-standard forms of employment -temporary contracts and part-time employment -were on the rise since the ALMPs and flexibility had not been structurally addressed (ILO, 2016;Florczak and Otto, 2019).…”

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A Paradigmatic Shift? Economic Crises and Labour Market Policies on the Eu’s (Semi-)Periphery

Hočevar¹

2022

TIP

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Ireland, Portugal and Slovenia – three states with different historical legacies and institutional frameworks – promoted labour market flexibility and active labour market policies before and during the 2008 crisis. These policies were postulated as basic poli-cies on the EU level. However, a significant change came with the COVID-19 crisis when governments in all three states implemented measures much more resembling neo-Keynesian policies. In the article, we show that the crucial mechanisms for the various labour market poli-cy choices made in these three countries were due to the two crises being of distinct types, the (non)coincidence of interests of a range of actors and classes, and the dif-ferent policy frameworks promoted by the EU. Keywords: crises, flexibility, labour market, European union, semi-periphery, COVID-19

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Precarious Employment Is a Global Problem of Modernity: How Can Its Scale Be Reduced in Russia?

Bobkov

Odintsova

Коваленко

2020

Stud. Russ. Econ. Dev.

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Precarious work and labour regulation in the EU: current reality and perspectives

Cited by 5 publications

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The Norwegian version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III): Initial validation study using a national sample of registered nurses

The Norwegian version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III): Initial validation study using a national sample of registered nurses

A Paradigmatic Shift? Economic Crises and Labour Market Policies on the Eu’s (Semi-)Periphery

Precarious Employment Is a Global Problem of Modernity: How Can Its Scale Be Reduced in Russia?

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