Drawing on analysis of 2004 and 2011 WERS data and extensive case studies of employee consultation bodies, this paper highlights major problems with the regulatory design and enforcement of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 and advocates reforms to improve their...

Corporate governance - the way that major businesses are run - has been of in-creasing concern in recent years. Financial scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom, as well as similar problems in Europe, have resulted in most major countries introducing corporate governance codes. However,...

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...

Which role and facilities are available to trade unions and works councils within the countries of the European Union to co-influence innovation in companies and institutions? This is the main question dealt with in this literature study. Four short country reports will be presented to analyse...

The paper examines recent evidence on the erosion of the German industrial relations model. Although its coverage has declined, much of this has occurred in smaller and newer establishments, and compared with Britain, it has remained solid in the areas of Germany's traditional industrial...

Deutschland hat im europäischen Vergleich die meisten Mitbestimmungsgesetze und die größte Anzahl unterschiedlicher Arbeitnehmervertretungsorgane. Nirgendwo sind die Mitwirkungs- und Mitbestimmungsrechte der Arbeitnehmer, der Betriebsräte und der Gewerkschaften so weitgehend geregelt wie...

Die Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln und des Institute for Law and Finance an der Universität Frankfurt zur Bewertung der Unternehmensmitbestimmung deuten darauf hin, dass die paritätische Mitsprache der Arbeitnehmer im Aufsichtsrat den...