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A Third Way: Regional Restructuring and the Societas Europaea

Kirshner, Jodie A. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2009

requirements of mandatory codetermination. This paper reports case-study evidence to argue that companies are utilizing the SE in a …

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Employee Ownership in the European Company: Reflexive Law, Reincorporation and Escaping Codetermination

Njoya, W. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

This article assesses the effects of reincorporation on codetermination, focusing on the scope for escaping … codetermination by restructuring under the European Company (SE). This is usually associated with the prospect of corporate flight … institution of codetermination. Viewed within a framework of reflexive harmonization, the effects on codetermination are better …

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The Many Futures of the Contract of Employment

Deakin, Simon - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

The contract of employment heads the list of those labour market institutions whose continued usefulness is called into question by what appear to be fundamental changes in the world of work. However, given the multiple tasks of classification, regulation and redistribution which it has...

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The Contract of Employment: A Study in Legal Evolution

Deakin, S. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

This paper reconstructs the evolutionary path of the contract of employmentin English law. It demonstrates that the contract of employment is a more recent innovation than widely thought, and that its essential features owe as much to legislation as they do to the common law of contract. The...

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Putting Partnership Into Practice In Britain

Brown, William - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

The paper reviews industrial relations developments in Britain during 1999 by assessing how New Labour's policy commitment to encouraging 'partnership' is developing in practice. After a discussion of the Employment Relations Act it considers the wider influence of European legislation. It then...

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The Limits of Statutory Trade Union Recognition

Brown, W; Hudson, M; Deakin, S; Pratten, C - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

The paper assesses the prospects for Britain's new statutory trade union recognition procedure in the light of empirical evidence concerning union derecognition practice in the 1990s. It draws on 15 cases of union derecognition across a broad spread of employment, matched with comparable cases...

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The Management of Pay as the Influence of Collective Bargaining Diminishes.

Brown, W; Marginson, P; Welsh, J - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

The management of pay in Britain has changed substantially in recent years. The paper starts with a theoretical discussion of the extent to which individual employers can exercise discretion in the management of their employees' pay. It then examines the ways in which pay is used to secure...

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Collective Employee Representation and the Impact of Law: Initial Response to the Employment Relations Act 1999.

Oxenbridge, S; Deakin, S; Brown, W; Pratten, C - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

Using data gathered primarily during interviews with managers and trade union officials, this article examines how trade unions and employers have reacted to the introduction of the statutory procedure for union recognition in the Employment Relations Act 1999 (ERA). Findings indicate that the...

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The Employment Contract: From Collective Procedures To Individual Rights

Brown, William; Deakin, Simon; Nash, David; Oxenbridge, … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

The article analyses the institutional basis and form of the employment contract in Britain using the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey. It assesses the extent to which collective bargaining still regulates pay and non-pay aspects of employment. The paper shows that while collective...

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Opting Out Of The 48-Hour Week – Employer Necessity Or Individual Choice? An Empirical Study Of The Operation Of Article 18(1)(B) Of The Working Time Directive In The UK

Barnard, Catherine; Deakin, Simon; Hobbs, Richard - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

The EU Working Time Directive has so far had little impact on an ingrained culture of long-hours working in the UK. Case studies suggest that the use of individual opt-outs from the 48-hour limit on weekly working time is a principal reason for this. However, removal of the individual opt-out...

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