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"The Slovenian legislator has not addressed yet the regulation of AI and its consequences. Where existing legal frameworks do not provide answers or are too general in terms of the specifics of employment relationships, solutions will have to be sought at both EU and national level on the basis of discussion, consultation and social dialogue to ensure decent and just working conditions notwithstanding the changing nature of work and new developments in the labour market."

"Confidentiality is a cornerstone workplace issue, involving the protection of sensitive company and employee matters, and of individual workers' and collective rights to information and consultation (I&C), board-level representation, health and safety (H&S) representation, and privacy. For many worker representatives, however, it is not always clear what and when information will be shared with them, nor the extent to which they will be consulted on key workplace issues. For example, in the restructuring of transnational companies, European Works Council (EWC) involvement in related processes has long been shown to be limited (De Spiegelaere 2016), and EWCs are often informed only after strategic decisions have been taken. In part, this may reflect limited dialogue in the contexts in which national I&C structures are comparatively weaker.

This handbook aims to provide readers with an introductory reference to key regulations and concepts concerning workplace representation bodies and the regulation of confidential information in the workplace in various EU Member States and the United Kingdom. Each country chapter presents an overview of the industrial relations setting written by the contributing editor. The remainder is based on 2020 reports by national experts and more recent sources. "

"The 2021–2022 inflation crisis in the EU offers an opportunity to examine how diverse industrial relations systems respond to similar macroeconomic shocks. This article compares Romania and Slovenia, two post-communist countries whose industrial relations systems are poles apart. The expectation was that, in contrast to the enfeebled Romanian system, Slovenia would not only resort to social dialogue but also adopt comprehensive measures to shield workers from the dual energy- and food-related shock. Yet, there was less divergence than anticipated. In particular, while unilateralism took place in Romania because of the weakness of its unions post-2011, the interruption of tripartite negotiations in Slovenia was the result of the social partners' actions and not a deliberate government strategy. Hence, while confirming that governments play the main role in supporting social dialogue, this article suggests that the social partners also carefully ponder the costs and benefits of their involvement in tripartite policy-making."

"This book presents the issue of access to information in the posting of workers. The authors identify and assess the practices and challenges of construction companies involved in the posting of workers, either as posting companies sending their workers to provide a service from one European Union (EU) country to another or as a user company that receives the services provided by posting companies and their posted workers. The chapters in this book contribute to the debates on the posting of workers by filling a gap in understanding how transnational posting companies and user or receiving companies find and use information in their interaction with national institutions and how that affects their overall performance in terms of the correct application of the posting rules and the protection of labour and social standards. The studies focus on the specific case of the construction sector as one of the main sectors where posting occurs and where both larger companies and SMEs as well as self-employed are active. Consequently, this sector covers a great diversity of “companies”, allowing for a stratified understanding of posting and receiving companies' challenges."

This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

"A growing literature has analysed capitalist institutions in Slovenia and Estonia, two countries often viewed as representing very different varieties of capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe. Slovenia has been unique in the region, given its highly centralized wage bargaining and the importance of corporatist institutions, notably the tripartite Economic and Social Council; it is thus an exception to the general pattern of weak unions and ‘illusory corporatism' across the region. By contrast, Estonia is commonly viewed as a prime example of a liberal market economy, in which industrial relations are decentralized. This article analyses how these distinctive institutional configurations have shaped the two countries' responses to the global economic crisis beginning in 2007–2008. It explores whether these institutions have undergone changes as a result of the crisis, and also seeks to identify lessons from this experience for the future prospects for corporatism and tripartism, and also for the revitalization of trade unions and progressive politics in Central and Eastern Europe more generally."

"Slovenia's living standards measured in GDP per capita are currently some 20% below the EU15 average and have not yet reached their pre-crisis level. Given that most of this gap comes from differences in labour productivity, the paper looks at productivity trends and sources of productivity growth over past two decades. The largest labour productivity lags are in agriculture and mining and utilities, but lags are also present in services sectors such as information and communication activities, financial and insurance activities and professional services. The importance of the high and medium high technology manufacturing has risen in the last two decades, and their share in total manufacturing value added is relatively high in Slovenia. Growth accounting shows that total factor productivity (TFP) and physical capital were the main sources of economic growth before the crisis in Slovenia, while the contribution of human capital was low. With the crisis, however, the GDP growth turned highly negative due to large drops in TFP and the labour input contribution. The contribution from physical capital was also reduced, reflecting subdued investment activity. Slovenia has a high level of state control in the economy and low foreign direct investment (FDI). Using two different panel datasets – one spanning the OECD countries and another spanning Slovenia's economic activities - we find that improving both measures could significantly raise productivity."

" Free movement of persons is one of the fundamental freedoms of European integration. It is protected by EU primary law, especially by the TFEU and its provisions on citizen's rights and free movement of workers within the Union. The described freedom is not absolute, however. One of the crucial limitations consists of the economically non-active EU citizens and their family members having to obtain comprehensive sickness insurance cover in the host Member States in order to enjoy the right of residence for more than three months in those states. The aim of the paper is to analyse the legal framework of the UK, Ireland, Slovenia and Croatia and their implementation of the EU Residence Directive's comprehensive sickness insurance condition for the right of residence in EU Member States and determine whether certain changes to the Residence Directive are needed in order to obtain a clearer regulation of EU citizens' rights in cross-border situations. The analysis has shown that the national autonomy may result in various interpretations, depending on the type of the social security health system the country in question employs. Different interpretations have highlighted the need for a clearer EU-level regulation, to increase clarity and legal certainty for migrants. "

"Since the world crisis hit Slovenia, the reconfiguration of the industrial relations system has mainly been exogenously determined. Public debt and the related dependence on supranational institutions and financial (bond) markets have been strongly correlated with the unilateral imposition of these institutions' demands and pressures. Despite the mounting pressures, the formal structure of industrial relations has not undergone major changes, but within this structure there are clear signs of major changes in power relations and in the logic and quality of the industrial relations system."