Employee ‘Voice’ and Working Environment in the New Member States: Translating Policy into Practice in the Baltic States

Charles Woolfson, Dace Calite and Epp Kallaste

Chapter 7 in Workplace Health and Safety, 2009, pp 134-153 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It has become conventional academic wisdom that among the key social benefits of European Union enlargement for the New Member States (NMS), in addition to enhanced information and consultation rights and non-discrimination measures, has been an improvement of occupational health and safety law and practice through the legislative transposition of EU Directives (Kohl and Platzer, 2004). While some have questioned the success of the institutional transfer of a European ‘social model’ in the process of enlargement (Vaughan-Whitehead, 2005; Meardi, 2007), the adoption of new legislative frameworks in the area of working environment is characterised as evidence of the spread of a European ‘social dimension’ to the NMS.

Keywords: Trade Union; Baltic State; Labour Market Actor; Social Dialogue; Employee Participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250529_8

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