 Labour’s legal resources after 2004Jan Drahokoupil and
Martin Myant
Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2015, vol. 21, issue 3, 327-341 Abstract: This article investigates the influence of the European Union (EU) on legal resources available to labour to tackle labour market challenges in Central and Eastern European countries after their accession to the EU in 2004 and 2007. Its conclusion is that the EU’s impact has been complex and contradictory, with differences between countries and time periods. The EU has to varying degrees encouraged social partnership and supported a model of employment relations giving high levels of legal and collective protection to employees. Since 2008, the EU has advocated reductions in protection for employees on standard contracts and a very substantial reduction in collective bargaining coverage in one case, only partially balanced by advocacy for improving the lot of those on less secure employment relationships. However, the EU agenda has in practice been largely irrelevant to the widespread informalization and casualization of employment relations in the region. Keywords: Labour market; labour code; trade unions; collective bargaining; Central and Eastern Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:treure:v:21:y:2015:i:3:p:327-341 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research |
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