This report, commissioned by the sectoral social dialogue committee on temporary agency work, is based on an EIRO comparative study of temporary agency work in the enlarged EU. The questionnaire survey gathered responses across 28 countries u0096 the 25 EU Member States, as well as Norway and...

Report and results from "The Great New Zealand Employment Survey 2013." The annual Great New Zealand Employment Survey (TGNZES) began in 2009. It responded to a need to examine the employment relationship from both the manager and employee points of view in the New Zealand context. It also came...

Books reviewed in this article: Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector Edited by Paul F. Clark, John T. Delaney and Ann C. Frost. Industrial Relations and European Integration: Trans- and Supra-national Developments and Prospects Edited by Berndt Keller and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer. Industrial...

The introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) had potentially significant implications for small firms. Orthodox economic theory predicts adverse consequences, though institutional analysis points to potential efficiency as well as fairness effects. Using longitudinal data on 55 firms,...

Rather than legal enactment and collective bargaining being the main engines of the 'Europeanisation' of industrial relations, benchmarking and 'soft' forms of regulation are increasingly to the fore. This article traces the origins of benchmarking from management tool to regulatory instrument,...

Commercial firms in industries once under public ownership generally have well-organised trade unions with significant disruptive capacity, yet overt confict is often low despite major change. This paper examines the experience of two major rail and energy companies after privatisation. The...