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Labour and social regulation

Labour and social regulation covers the legal framework and fundamental social rights that regulates industrial relations, employment and social policies across Europe. It includes national, EU and international legislation.  Union labour law has a direct or indirect impact on the normative and functional frameworks of individual and collective labour law systems of the Member States in a relationship of mutual interference and interaction.  Increasingly Union labour laws are also shaped by agreements that the parties voluntarily enter into and by soft law mechanisms.  The reform or modernising of labour law is currently high on the agenda in several Member States.

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Regulatory responses to algorithmic management in the EU

Since 2013, Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legislation has been documenting regulatory developments in the Member States of the European Union and Norway. The most recent update to the database...

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Hybridní práce v Evropě: koncepce a praxe

Pojem „hybridní práce“ se popularizoval s nárůstem práce na dálku během pandemie covidu-19, kdy společnosti a zaměstnanci začali diskutovat o způsobech organizace práce po této zdravotní krizi. Pojem se stále...

25 Květen 2023
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Research report

Eurofound research

Eurofound has monitored legislative developments in industrial relations, working conditions and restructuring in Europe over time and from a comparative perspective across the Member States. The Agency’s work in this area seeks to assist decision-makers to better understand the legal framework for creating policy. It has also put resources in place to assist audiences in understanding the sometimes complex and difficult terminology used.

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This topic covers the legal framework that regulates industrial relations and employment across Europe, including EU legislation and the fundamental labour standards that need to be taken into account.

Legislation is crucial in shaping how Europeans work and live. It is the basis for ensuring better working conditions, equitable labour relations, and equal opportunities for all citizens.

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Právo odpojit se: jeho uplatňování a dopad na úrovni společností

This report explores EU Member States’ legislation around the right to disconnect and assesses the impact of company policies in this area on employees’ hours of connection, working time, work–life balance, health and well-being, and overall workplace satisfaction.

30 November 2023
Publication
Research report
Pracovní doba
Rovnováha mezi pracovním a soukromým životem
Pracovní podmínky a udržitelná práce
Práce na dálku
Working conditions
Agreements
Labour and social regulation
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Hybridní práce v Evropě: koncepce a praxe

Pojem „hybridní práce“ se popularizoval s nárůstem práce na dálku během pandemie covidu-19, kdy společnosti a zaměstnanci začali diskutovat o způsobech organizace práce po této zdravotní krizi. Pojem se stále více používá k označení situací, kdy je práce (s možností práce na dálku) vykonávána ze

25 May 2023
Publication
Research report
Pracovní podmínky a udržitelná práce
Práce na dálku
Work organisation
Labour and social regulation
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Rozšíření práce na dálku: dopad na pracovní podmínky a předpisy

Tato zpráva představuje výzkum nadace Eurofound zaměřený na práci na dálku během pandemie COVID-19 v letech 2020 a 2021. Zkoumá změny v míře využívání práce na dálku, změny pracovních podmínek zaměstnanců pracujících z domova a změny předpisů, které řeší otázky s tímto pracovním režimem související

08 December 2022
Publication
Research report
Nové formy zaměstnávání
Pracovní podmínky a udržitelná práce
Working conditions
Práce na dálku
Employment relationship
COVID-19
Digitální éra: příležitosti a výzvy pro práci a zaměstnanost
Labour and social regulation
Pracovní doba
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Regulace minimálních mezd a jiných forem odměn osob samostatně výdělečně činných

Tato zpráva je vypracována v rámci tříletého pilotního projektu (2021–2023) nazvaného „Úloha minimální mzdy při vytváření univerzální záruky práce“, jehož realizací pověřila nadaci Eurofound Evropská komise. Zaměřuje se na modul 3 tohoto projektu, který zkoumá minimální mzdy a jiné formy odměn osob

30 November 2022
Publication
Research report
Mzdy a příjmy
Minimální mzda
Agreements
Collective bargaining
Labour and social regulation
Pracovněprávní vztahy a sociální dialog
Pracovněprávní vztahy
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Práce na dálku v EU: regulační rámce a nejnovější vývoj

Cílem této zprávy je zmapovat a analyzovat právní předpisy a kolektivní vyjednávání týkající se práce na dálku ve 27 členských státech a Norsku. Zdůrazňuje hlavní rozdíly mezi jednotlivými zeměmi v otázce právních předpisů týkajících se práce na dálku a nejnovější vývoj těchto předpisů, ale i jejich

01 September 2022
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Research report
Pracovní doba
Working conditions
Práce na dálku
Rovnováha mezi pracovním a soukromým životem
Work organisation
Agreements
Collective bargaining
Labour and social regulation
Pracovněprávní vztahy a sociální dialog
Pracovněprávní vztahy
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Minimální mzdy v roce 2022: každoroční přezkum

Po opatrném procesu stanovování minimální mzdy na rok 2021 se nominální sazby pro rok 2022 výrazně zvýšily, neboť se zmírnily negativní důsledky pandemie a ekonomiky a trhy práce se zlepšily. V této souvislosti své sazby zvýšilo 20 z 21 členských států EU se zákonnou minimální mzdou. Výrazný růst

15 June 2022
Publication
Research report
Sociální dialog
Social partners
Mzdy a příjmy
Minimální mzda
Collective bargaining
Labour and social regulation
Pracovněprávní vztahy a sociální dialog
Pracovněprávní vztahy
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Ethics in the digital workplace

Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns. Recently, the policy debate surrounding these concerns has become more prominent and has

30 May 2022
Publication
Research report
Social dialogue
Social policies
Working conditions
Employment and labour markets
Anticipating and managing the impact of change
Digitalisation
Labour and social regulation
Job quality
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Working life in the COVID-19 pandemic 2021

This publication consists of individual country reports on working life during 2021 for 28 countries – the 27 EU Member States and Norway. The country reports summarise evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on working life based on national research and survey results during 2021. They

19 May 2022
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Other
Social dialogue
Social partners
Pay and income
Working time
Working conditions
COVID-19
Industrial action
Labour and social regulation
Industrial relations and social dialogue
Industrial relations
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Minimální mzdy v roce 2021: každoroční přezkum

Tato zpráva shrnuje, jak byly výše minimálních mezd pro rok 2021 stanoveny v průběhu roku 2020, tedy v roce, který byl poznamenán pandemií COVID-19. Posuzuje obtíže, kterým čelili vnitrostátní činitelé s rozhodovací pravomocí a jak při rozhodování o minimální mzdě reagovali na výzvy spojené s

10 June 2021
Publication
Research report
Sociální dialog
Social partners
Mzdy a příjmy
Working poor
Minimální mzda
European Pillar of Social Rights
Collective bargaining
Labour and social regulation
Pracovněprávní vztahy a sociální dialog
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Zdravotní postižení a začlenění na trhu práce: Politické trendy a podpora v členských státech EU

Tato zpráva se zabývá vývojem politik v členských státech EU, které se zaměřují na podporu začleňování osob se zdravotním postižením na otevřeném trhu práce se zvláštním zřetelem na tři fáze, a to uzavření pracovního poměru, setrvání v něm a návrat do zaměstnání po určité době nepřítomnosti. Zkoumá

19 April 2021
Publication
Research report
Social policies
Veřejné služby
Working conditions
European Pillar of Social Rights
COVID-19
Disability and chronic disease
Labour market policies
Labour market participation
Životní podmínky a kvalita života
Labour and social regulation
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Transposition of the young workers Directive and the child labour problem

A preliminary draft bill to implement the EU young workers Directive is under discussion in Portugal in mid-1998. However, transposition of the Directive will not resolve some important issues relating to child labour, notably when performed at home.

27 Červenec 1998
Article
Labour law
Working conditions
Labour and social regulation
Working conditions and sustainable work

Social partners discuss new labour laws

Over the first half of 1998, the Portuguese Government submitted a set of draft bills to be discussed by the social partners within the framework of the Standing Committee for Social Concertation. The proposals would introduce changes in some particularly sensitive areas, such as part-time work and

27 Červenec 1998
Article
Labour and social regulation
Non-standard employment
Pay and income
Working conditions
Working conditions and sustainable work

Bill on regulation of labour relations

In June 1998, the Greek Minister of Labour and Social Security announced a bill on the "regulation of labour relations and other provisions", which seeks to regulate various aspects of industrial relations, both in the private and public sector.

27 Červenec 1998
Article
Labour and social regulation
Labour market policies
Non-standard employment
Working time
Unemployment
Working conditions
Employment and labour markets
Working conditions and sustainable work

Improved conditions for families with small children top the agenda

Improved conditions for families with small children were a central theme in the Prime Minister's traditional speech delivered on New Year's Day 1998 (DK9802156N [1]). Having been through the March general election, the May referendum on the Amsterdam Treaty and 11 days of major industrial conflict

27 Červen 1998
Article
Labour and social regulation
Working time
Non-standard employment
Leave
Working conditions
Working conditions and sustainable work

Employers rejoin Danish health and safety system

On 16 June 1998, the Danish Employers' Confederation (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening, DA) ended its one-year boycott and decided to re-enter the national health and safety system. The boycott had come as a reaction to the new and amended Work Environment Act adopted on 30 May 1997, which employers

27 Červen 1998
Article
Health and well-being at work
Labour law
Labour and social regulation

Works councils oppose electronic surveillance

Two laws in Austria regulate electronic surveillance at work. The first is the Labour Constitution Act 1974 (Arbeitsverfassungsgesetz, or ArbVG), especially sections 91 and 96. Amongst many amendments to this law, only the one enacted in 1986 is important in relation to this topic, as it introduced

27 Červen 1998
Article
Labour and social regulation
Employee representation

Government unveils proposals for a fairer workplace

On 21 May 1998, the Government published a white paper entitled Fairness at work [1] setting out its legislative agenda in the area of industrial relations. As well as giving details of the Government's proposed statutory trade union recognition procedure, the white paper outlines a range of other

27 Červen 1998
Article
Labour market policies
Labour and social regulation
Social partners
Employee representation
Leave
Working conditions
Employment and labour markets
Working conditions and sustainable work

Government acts on EU working time Directive

On 8 April 1998, Margaret Beckett MP, President of the Board of Trade, launched a public consultation exercise on draft regulations to implement the provisions of the EU working time Directive (plus the working time aspects of the young workers Directive). Subject to any amendments the Government

27 Květen 1998
Article
Labour and social regulation
Working time
Working conditions
Working conditions and sustainable work

Ireland set to introduce a national minimum wage in 2000

The long-awaited report of Ireland's National Minimum Wage Commission, published in April 1998, is set to herald the introduction of a national minimum wage of around IEP 4.40 per hour. The target date set by the Commission is 1 April 2000, a date which would deliberately coincide with the

27 Duben 1998
Article
Labour and social regulation
Minimum wage
Pay and income
Social partners
Labour market policies
Industrial relations
Industrial relations and social dialogue

Working time bill soon to become law

The bill on the reduction of the statutory working week from 39 to 35 hours (FR9803197N [1]) was passed at second reading stage by the National Assembly on 31 March 1998. After its second reading in the Senate (upper house) and a meeting of the cross-party joint committee, the bill should become law

27 Duben 1998
Article
Labour and social regulation
Working time
Work organisation
Blogs results (12)
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Member States still getting to grips with the single labour market

The European Platform Tackling Undeclared Work last year documented the case of a Dutch temporary work agency that hired workers of various nationalities to work for a construction company in Belgium. The wages were suspiciously low, and the Belgian Labour Inspectorate believed that EU law

17 Červenec 2019
Helen Burke
Blog
Posted workers
Working conditions and sustainable work
Working conditions
Undeclared work
Fraudulent work
Labour and social regulation
Industrial relations and social dialogue
Industrial relations
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Tackling trafficking for labour exploitation in Europe: new way forward together

The European Union (EU) has strong legislation in place that protects workers from being exploited and also enables businesses to engage in fair competition. Workers are mobile and can move freely within the EU single market across borders – without being dependent upon traffickers. Yet, the latest

3 Květen 2016
Andrea Fromm
Blog
Fraudulent work
Industrial relations
Labour and social regulation
Employment and labour markets
Migration and mobility
Working conditions
Working conditions and sustainable work
Industrial relations and social dialogue

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