The findings of a 2005 study by the Labour Institute (INE) of the Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE) and the Confederation of Public Servants (ADEDY) reveal significant problems in Greece as regards the implementation of legislation on health and safety at work. Risk prevention...

MOL faces a number of challenges related to an ageing workforce. As a formerly state-owned company, there is a tradition of lifelong careers that makes MOL attractive for employees. HR policies currently continue to support lifelong employment. The company’s approach is to seek to employ...

The Korean service sector has grown since the first survey on working conditions was conducted in 2006. The characteristics of the labour market are similar to those of the EU labour market, although long working hours are still a major issue to be tackled, along with discrimination against...

For Serbia the first decade of the twenty-first century, following the change to a democratic regime in October 2000, was marked by the transition to a market economy, privatisation and restructuring. [...] Industrial relations are regulated by the comprehensive body of labour legislation, the...

In the context of the EU accession process, Montenegro has been working on harmonising its legal framework with the 'acquis communautaire', which resulted in a host of new laws and regulations, not least in the areas of employment and working conditions. [...] In July 2008 the Montenegrin...

From the beginning of the political and economic transition, the legal context has been rather favourable to industrial relations. In the constitution of 1991, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was proclaimed as a social state with high level of provision of social and economic rights,...

Following the reconstruction of its war-devastated economy, the country from 2000 embarked on the road of economic transformation. This process included privatisation of state-owned enterprises and private sector development. [...] Relations between labour and capital are very strained, which...