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Recent developments regarding collective bargaining University of Antwerp
As labour law is constantly evolving, the question of its adaptation to new challenges becomes increasingly relevant. A few examples of these challenges are the improvement of working conditions, the introduction of more flexibility and autonomy to organise work and the increase of productivity. Collective bargaining is regarded as a possible way to meet these challenges and, at the same time, to achieve a fair balance between the interests of ...
Collective consumption models with restricted bargaining weights: an empirical assessment based on experimental data KU Leuven
We use experimental data to analyze consumption decisions by groups of individuals who have to reach a consensus on spending a joint budget. Our experiment involves dyads (i. e. two-member groups) who have to compose consumption bundles consisting of three commodities (wine, orange juice and M&Ms). We focus on the collective consumption model to describe group behavior. This model represents group decisions as Pareto optimal outcomes of a ...
Collective bargaining in the Belgian public sector University of Antwerp
Since the world (of work) is changing every day, (labour) law must be adapted on a regular basis. Failure to do so may lead to legislation that is stuck on the road between tradition and innovation. The regulation on collective bargaining in the Belgian public sector can serve as an example. This legislation is (still) based on the ideas, principles and administrative context that were characteristic of the time period of its drafting. For ...
Crisis-related collective bargaining and its effects on different contractual groups of workers in German and Belgian workplaces KU Leuven
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. This article investigates the effects of crisis-related collective bargaining on different contractual groups of workers. Comparing four workplaces of two multinationals in Germany and Belgium in the recent economic crisis, the authors observe that Belgian unions could protect some temporary workers’ jobs and when the crisis endured, the jobs and working conditions of the permanent workforces. In contrast, temporary ...
Effectiveness of mediation strategies in collective bargaining. Evidence from Spain KU Leuven
Effectiveness of mediation strategies is analyzed in two different types of collective labor conflicts: rights conflicts and conflicts of interests. The sample consists of 106 professional labor mediators who completed a questionnaire about the strategies they used and the outcomes they achieved in their most recent mediation intervention. Results from regression analysis indicate that while the use of substantive and contextual strategies is ...