EU - ILO comparative review

Facilities for trade union officials and members to exercise their rights – A comparative review

13 November 2020

The report seeks to highlight the common denominator of the two main issues which will be analysed: the right to organize, id est the right to form and join organizations of workers or employers, and the facilities granted to workers’ representatives. The former is of a more fundamental nature (freedom of assembly, non-discrimination and non-interference), whereas the latter (facilities) is more technical. The countries which will be examined are the following: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.

EU - ILO comparative review

Individual and collective dispute resolution systems - A comparative review

13 November 2020

The present report investigates specific individual and collective labour dispute resolution practices and institutions in a selected sample of countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The countries were selected to reflect broadly different legal and industrial relations systems with diverse forms and traditions of dispute resolution.

EU - ILO report

Policy recommendations on individual and collective dispute resolution systems and facilities for trade union officials and members to exercise their rights

13 November 2020

These policy recommendations address some areas of possible changes in the Greek labour law framework that could modernise dispute settlement systems on the one hand, and facilities for trade union officials and members in Greece on the other. They are formulated in response to specific queries and comments received from the Greek government and the social partners.

Publication

Social Dialogue in the Railways Sector

08 February 2016

The scope of this manual is conflict prevention, thus involving the preparation and identification of different steps and processes for social dialogue with an emphasis on the railways sector.

International Labour Review, Vol. 152 (2013), No. 2

The meta-regulation of European industrial relations: Power shifts, institutional dynamics and the emergence of regulatory competition

05 July 2013

“Meta-regulation” describes the transnational governance of industrial relations emerging from attempts to resolve conflicts between national collective agreements and EU Member States’ freedom to provide services and post workers abroad. The norm underpinning such meta-regulation is competition, not only between workers from different EU Member States but also between States’ labour regulations. Using the concepts of “structural power” and “social field”, the authors discuss judicial decisions that illustrate the gradual meta-regulation of industrial relations in the EU and show how the power asymmetry between labour and capital is growing in favour of the latter.

Publication

Regulating the employment relationship in Europe: A guide to Recommendation No. 198

02 April 2013

Over the recent years, there have been increasing developments at the European level regarding the employment relationship in legislation, case law, collective agreements and soft law. In this context, the ILO, and in particular the then Industrial and Employment Relations Department (DIALOGUE) undertook a strategic partnership with the European Labour Law Network (ELLN), a network of independent legal experts from all European Union Member States and European Economic Area countries, in order to produce an updated version of the 2007 annotated Guide with a specific focus on European countries.

The Russian version of the Guide is complemented by examples on law in practice on employment relationship in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Publication

Using the ILO Code of Practice and training manual - Guidelines for labour judges and magistrates

01 January 2005

These guidelines aim to contribute to a fuller understanding of ILO standards and principles relevant to HIV/AIDS. They focus on the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work, and provide examples of the ways in which the key principles of the Code have been applied through national legislation and jurisprudence.