Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 2021

Session

3.1

16 Sept 2021, 17:45

Altana (Palazzo Strozzi)

Conveners

3.1: Safe and decent work in the pandemic and beyond

• Manuela Galetto (University of Warwick)

43. ‘Good employers wanted’. Strategies of Polish employment agencies towards posted workers in home care sector

Kamil Matuszczyk (University of Warsaw), Prof. Justyna Salamońska, Dr Anita Brzozowska

16/09/2021, 17:45

Track 2

Employers struggling with labour shortages, retention and competence mismatches may opt for the implementation of innovative strategies towards attracting workers. This paper will use the "good employer" lens to shed light on the practices undertaken by employment agencies posting workers in EU countries. These employers’ actions are the result of internal policies of the companies aimed at...

30. Critique of EU Action Plan to the 'European Pillar of Social Rights

Prof. Joern Janssen

16/09/2021, 18:10

Track 3

The crisis of industrial relations was not generated by the coronavirus pandemic, but the progressing division of the global production process during the last generation has undermined working regulations of the nation states. In response to this evolution, the International Labour Office, reminiscent of its origin in the 1919 Peace Treaty of Versailles, has taken a great step forward at a...

46. What happens when a changing migration infrastructure meets COVID-19 pandemic: the analysis of migrant workforce dynamics in the UK healthcare sector

Zinovijus Ciupijus

16/09/2021, 18:35

Track 1

From the start of COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare work has been identified as one of high-skilled key occupations with a high proportion of migrant professionals (Fasani and Mazza, 2020). In the UK, prior to the pandemic, health professional bodies expressed concerns over migrant workforce shortages and staff retention in the field of nursing due to Brexit (RCN, 2020); during the pandemic...