In dem Forschungsprojekt "New Forms of Employment und Working Time in the Service Economy" untersucht eine internationale Forschergruppe in zehn EU-Ländern Veränderungen der Beschäftigungs- und Arbeitszeitformen in verschiedenen Dienstleistungstätigkeiten. Geleitet wird das Forschungsprojekt...

The paper presents the findings of a survey on working-time organisation in the European automotive industry.It compares the duration of working time and operating hours and the organisation of shift systems, drawing oninformation from works councils or trade union branches in 39 bodywork and...

The article addresses the question whether or not the trend towards the decentralisationof collective bargaining on working time in Germany entails a loss in the bindingpower of industry-level agreements. To this end, both working-time agreements andpractices are examined at the firm or...

Working time policies, although designed within the national and sectoral framework and the boundaries of institutional regulations, are fine-tuned and implemented at the level of each company, taking account of the environment in which the company operates and the workforce it is employing....

This report presents a comparison of national industrial relations systems in the EU25, exploring the differences between individual systems and their effects on the economy. The report is based on the more detailed findings of a research project entitled "Quality of industrial relations:...