The implementation of the telework and work-related stress agreements: European social dialogue through "soft" law?
European Journal of Industrial Relations
2011
17
3
September
245-260
collective agreement ; European Union ; social dialogue ; social partners ; stress ; telework ; soft law
Labour relations
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680111410964
English
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"The Framework agreements on Telework and Work-related stress present unique challenges to our understanding of the European social dialogue, given that they were the first European inter-sectoral collective agreements to be implemented via ‘soft' means rather than legally binding directives. Their implementation and substantive effects were in practice piecemeal; this implies a retreat of the European social dialogue as a viable means of regulating social Europe."
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