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:...

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...