This document examines how the actions that help create forward-looking management of restructurings can be funded by the European social funds and the conditions of effective mobilisation of corresponding financing.
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| (POL_08_Nouvelles_Orientations _FSE_KC |
This contribution aims at responding to the following question: what influence does the right to government assistance have on the restructurings seen in the European Community? It also examines the possibility and opportunity to alter this influence.
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| POL_06_Aides_Etat_Restructura tions_JDB |
This document analyses the impact of European foreign policy, a joint Union policy, on restructurings. It examines the coherence of this policy with the interest of companies.
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| POL_01_Politique_Commerciale_ Exterieure_UE_HT |
The particular function of the European Works Council is to provide transnational representation for workers in Community-size conglomerates. Its structure and powers, which are extremely varied by reason of the agreements underlying its creation, are often ill-suited to dealing with restructuring. This is because it needs time to constitute a transnational structure for action, co-ordination and synergy with national players. It often lacks legitimacy on restructured sites attempting to defend workers’ jobs, owing to competition among a group’s production or services locations. The AgirE cases reveal known tendencies hampering the EWC’s action; they point to several factors of powerlessness leading to the EWC’ exclusion from the field of action. At the same time, they illustrate this transnational actor’s potential, and the existence of levers for action while restructuring is taking place.
If it is true that the European Works Council can play a pivotal role vis-à-vis restructuring operations by transnational groups, one can regret that it has not succeeded in establishing a transnational counterpoise for dealing with them so far.
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| EWC_Role_Restructurings_Final_Draft_MAM_JJP |
This document offers a theoretical analysis of the information requirement based on cases studied by the AgirE Project.
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| GOV_04_Obligation_Information _Restructuration_2007_FL |
This document analyses the conditions for which managing the changes associated with restructurings can be anticipated from the point of view of labour representatives
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| ACT_01_conditions_anticipatio n_LamySocial.doc |
This paper, which is centered on a "macro" approach, does not deal directly with firms’strategies, but it copes with a general reflection on restructuring based on a broad definition of this phenomenon.
It is divided in three parts :
1. The first one reviews the academic literature, mainly the North American one, according to which there would be a link between destabilising external contrainsts (like the opening of the world market, among others) and the emergence and the consolidation of internal stabilisation systems, as social or employment protection for instance. However, the author’s reflection is not limited to the social field : some different policies, such as monetary policies or migration policies, can also contribute to stabilisation.
2. The second part copes with the perceptions and the factors regarding the employees’ fear towards restructurings. In other words, what kind of policies could reduce these fears ?
3. The third one relates to public policies and the institutional interactions bound to ensure the transitions linked to restructurings. More concrete mechanisms are presented in other contributions (see namely R. Peña-Casas).
In conclusion, the author draws some general lessons for the debate on restructurings in the European Union.
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| Follow_Up_Policies_EU_PP |
Sugar had been protected from global competition by the formation of a common market organisation that set European prices. This document analyses the changes inferred by calling this organisation into question.
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| POL_10_Restructuration_Dialog ue_Social_Europeen_PP |
This paper is in line with a contribution presented during the Madrid seminar on "The Evolution of the National Collective Bargaining Models and the Innovative Feature of Collective Agreements".
This paper was dealing with an analysis of the evolution registered in three distinct national regulations - Germany, France, United Kingdom - and a correlation of that evolution to the European Law on the Constitution of the Company (Europäische Betriebsverfassung).
The thesis put forward observed that the EU Law had developed a consistent system of employee participation based upon three main principles :
the representation of the workforce at the level of the company ;
the development of a culture of dialogue between management and labour ;
the autonomous conformation of the procedures to be observed in the performance of that dialogue.
It was argued that EU Law had influenced to a great extent the evolutions observed in the three national regulation studied, namely through :
the reinforcement of the powers of the actors at the level of the company ;
the change in the nature of collective agreements ;
the development of a partnership culture at the level of the company ;
the saveguard of trade unions as watchdogs in the whole process.
This phenomenon was coined as controlled decentralisation and it was attributed to the influence of EU Law.
The present paper aims at examining to which extent this thesis can be validated or not with respect to the case studies carried out in the framework of the AgirE project. It comes out that these cases do illustrate to a great extent the dynamics of the process of controlled decentralisation considering that the regulation systems examined tend to evolve away from traditional models of collective bargaining in accordance with the characteristics mentioned above.
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| Collective_Bargaining_BM |
The past twenty years had been marked by major changes in industry with the emergence of a new division of labour. This presentation examined those changes, including a change in the relationship of enterprises with time and space, and its effects.
The technological revolution had led to consequences in various sectors of the economy as well as the emergence of new groups, including more and more demanding clients.
Two phenomena could be observed: transformations in the international division of labour against a background of globalisation on the one hand, and an increasing tendency for the economic system to operate in networks on the other. Production was changing (relocations, international division of labour, automation, etc.), as was illustrated by two cases: Lummezzane and Zwickau in the metal-working industry.
In addition to the change in firms’ relationship with space, their relationship with time had also changed (from the “just in time” setup in the 1990s to the current project management mode), as in the Ericsson case, for example, where there was an important shift from hardware production to consulting and a growing trend towards working in project mode.
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| New_Division_Labour_EE |
