The influence of collective employment relations on work accommodation: case studies in Estonia, Hungary and Poland

Märt Masso, Deborah Foster, Liina Osila, Balázs Bábel, Jan Czarzasty, Ambrus Kiss, Małgorzata Koziarek and Dominik Owczarek
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Märt Masso: Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Tallinn, Estonia
Deborah Foster: Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Liina Osila: Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Tallinn, Estonia
Balázs Bábel: Policy Agenda, Budapest, Hungary
Jan Czarzasty: Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland
Ambrus Kiss: Policy Agenda, Budapest, Hungary
Małgorzata Koziarek: Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland
Dominik Owczarek: Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2019, vol. 25, issue 4, 451-464

Abstract: Work accommodations are generally understood to refer to individual solutions for older and disabled employees that have been tailored to their specific situation within a workplace. This article, however, argues that there is potential for collective employment relations to motivate and enable social partners to develop a role in implementing reasonable accommodations and supporting older and disabled employees in the labour market. Focusing on industrial relations and work accommodation systems in Estonia, Poland and Hungary, the potential role that social partners could play in creating more inclusive workplaces is explored. This is done by reference to the findings from an action research project that brought together social partners to discuss ways in which practices in providing work accommodations could help better to integrate underutilised sources of labour in these three countries. The industrial relations regimes in the three countries have potentially enabling characteristics that could facilitate work accommodations. Current knowledge of the work accommodation process and the integration of this issue into the collective employment relations agenda, however, needs further improvement.

Keywords: Work accommodation; collective employment relations; social partners; collective voice; return to work; stay at work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258919828597

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