Carley, Mark

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. It includes a comparative supplement on the impact of the European Commission's Green Paper on Partnership for a new organisation of work and developments in work organisation more generally.

This report makes a first, exploratory attempt at examining the extent and nature of negotiating activity within EWCs. It focuses on examples of written joint texts concerning issues other than the EWC’s own constitution or internal affairs and looks in detail at 14 joint texts. The report concludes that the negotiation of joint texts by EWCs is a very restricted, if potentially important, phenomenon, which could be said to constitute a form of European-level bargaining.

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. This issue provides an overview of the ways in which employees are represented on company boards across the EU and in Norway.

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. The comparative supplement analyses the extent and utilisation of progressive retirement in the EU Member States (and Norway), its regulation by law and collective bargaining, the main features of the existing schemes, and its role and importance in the current debate between governments and social partners

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. The comparative supplement in this issue of EIRObserver examines the extent to which employees and collective bargaining are involved in managing and responding to continous corporate restructuring and change. The supplement outlines the extent and character of restructuring, before considering the statutory and collective agreed provisions on employee participation in the process, and the way in which collective bargaining at various levels plays a role.

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. This issue includes a comparative supplement on teleworking and industrial relations in Europe

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. The comparative supplement looks at the industrial relations aspects of the mergers and takeovers phenomenon in the 15 EU Member States plus Norway. It examines: the context of EU-level regulation and concern; the regulatory framework governing workers' rights in such situations, the role of public authorities, the impact on jobs and collective bargaining; cross-border mergers and takeovers and the role of European Works Councils; and the views of the social partners.

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. This issue includes a comparative supplement on the 'Europeanisation' of collective bargaining.

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. This issue's comparative supplement summarises the latest paper to emerge from the Foundation research, linking the issue of collective bargaining on equal opportunities to the EU employment strategy and providing examples of agreements with the potential to lead to equality between women and men.

EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on specific themes. This issue includes a comparative supplement on the flexibility of working time in Europe.