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"There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional 'silos', such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties of capitalism, with limited dialogue between different approaches to enhance understanding of institutional effects. Again, evaluations of the relationship between institutions and employment relations have tended to be of the broad-brushstroke nature, often founded on macro-data, and with only limited attention being accorded to internal diversity and details of actual practice. The Handbook aims to fill this gap by bringing together an assembly of comprehensive and high quality chapters to enable understanding of changes in employment relations since the early 1970s. Theoretically-based chapters attempt to link varieties of capitalism, business systems, and different modes of regulation to the specific practice of employment relations, and offer a truly comparative treatment of the subject, providing frameworks and empirical evidence for understanding trends in employment relations in different parts of the world. Most notably, the Handbook seeks to incorporate at a theoretical level regulationist accounts and recent work that link bounded internal systemic diversity with change, and, at an applied level, a greater emphasis on recent applied evidence, specifically dealing with the employment contract, its implementation, and related questions of work organization. It will be useful to academics and students of industrial relations, political economy, and management. "

"This report examines in depth the legality of the measures taken by the European Union, alongside the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in the wake of the financial and debt crisis. Beginning with a factual presentation of the European Union's post-crisis agenda, which has focused on a flexible, productivity-based wage policy, the authors then establish in which areas the EU's demands have interfered with existing collective bargaining systems, i.e. with autonomy in collective bargaining. These measures are assessed in the light of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, with specific regard to the right of collective bargaining enshrined in Article 28 of the Charter. In some instances, this interference will consequently prove to be unlawful, in particular owing to the violation of the principle of proportionality. Where this is the case, various options for judicial remedy are suggested.By placing the post-crisis policy squarely within the context of collective labour law and assessing its legality, the report establishes standards that should be observed not only in scholarly debate but also in the setting of the European Union's future political agenda.



The report was published first within the Book series of Hugo-Sinzheimer-Institut Frankfurt in 2015. Due to the Europe-wide relevance of the subject, the ETUI decided to translate and publish this English translation in its own publication series."

"Nuestra hipótesis es que, a raíz de la crisis financiera de 2008 y de la posterior “crisis del euro”, y también debido al hecho de que la gran mayoría de los gobiernos de la UE responsables de la gestión de esta crisis eran de centro-derecha, un modelo de la unión económica y monetaria se ha convertido en otro. Lo que describimos es una serie de opciones políticas, circunstancias y ventanas de oportunidad que han permitido la aceptación de esta visión particular del modelo de unión monetaria. En el contexto de este modelo, la unión política no se considera un modo accesible para gestionar la crisis, porque el rescate del euro se considera factible sólo en una economía más competitiva. La dimensión social, en consecuencia, se convierte en la variable de ajuste. En este sentido, las declaraciones hechas por el Presidente del Banco Central Europeo -anunciando la muerte del modelo social europeo- no son más que la anticipación de una realidad que es el resultado de una elección política, basada en un conjunto de recetas económicas, y que da por sentado la imposibilidad de alcanzar una verdadera unión política.

Se describe el nuevo sistema de gobernanza compleja puesto en marcha para poner en práctica este nuevo modelo de gobernanza económica de la UEM. Es un sistema aún bajo construcción, pero ya está ejerciendo mucha presión sobre las relaciones laborales (en términos de salarios y descentralización) y los Estados de bienestar (políticas laborales y de pensiones). Se diferencia del sistema de gobernanza anterior en que, por un lado, las reglas son más rígidas y, por otro, los cambios previstos se refieren a las instituciones más que las políticas. Aunque se concluye llamando la atención sobre los aspectos que actualmente cohesionan y dan sentido, somos igualmente muy conscientes de las contradicciones, anomalías, luchas de poder y posibles cambios de paradigma, que descartan cualquier sugerencia de una conclusión predecible."