Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 2021

Session

1.3

16 Sept 2021, 14:15

Altana (Palazzo Strozzi)

Conveners

1.3: IR regulation: collective bargaining and beyond

• Luigi Burroni (University of Florence)

1. Pushing and pulling towards European wage policies: the Governance of wages and the interaction of different Dimensions and forces

Prof. Bernd Brandl (Durham University Business School), Dr Jan Czarzasty (University of Warsaw)

16/09/2021, 14:15

Track 3

This paper investigates how wages can be governed in the EU and what the role and effects of different dimensions of industrial relations systems are. More specifically, we investigate the ‘vertical dimension’, which connects the supranational locus of European policy-making and shaping to national organizations in a top-down fashion. We also investigate the role of the ‘horizontal dimension’,...

4. Product market regulation and working conditions within platform work. A comparison between international and regional food delivery platforms in Poland and Italy

Karol Muszynski (KU Leuven), Prof. Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven), Ms Claudia Marà (KU Leuven)

16/09/2021, 14:45

Track 3

The effects of platforms on employment conditions have been primarily analyzed through the lenses of their interactions with labour market regulation and in isolation with the product market regulation (PMR). Studies in IR tradition suggest that PMR is crucial for understanding employment outcomes (Gall et al. 2011). PMR limits competition between companies based on wages and working standards...

59. Sectoral bargaining in Ireland- on the ropes again?

Prof. Eugene Hickland (Dublin City University), Prof. Tony Dundon (University of Limerick)

16/09/2021, 15:15

Track 3

This paper reports on attempts at a formal reinstatement and potential extent of sectoral bargaining taking place in Ireland. Ireland had a system of sectoral bargaining since 1946 (known as Joint Labour Committees, JLCs), of which there was 16. Sectoral bargaining in Ireland was not widespread but confined to specific low paid and vulnerable occupations (Ó’Riain, 2014). However, the system...