The Employment Relations Act 1999 (ERA) has provided trade unions in the UK with new opportunities for achieving recognition. After a long history of anti-unionism in the offshore oil and gas industry, employers have voluntarily ceded recognition to Trades Union Congress (TUC)-affiliated trade...

Using the example of occupational health and safety regulation, this article examines the tensions between neo-liberalism and social democratic policy approaches in the context of pre-accession transitional Lithuania. It is argued that attempts to provide a 'business-friendly' investment climate...

Today the United States is the last industrialised country that does not have a comprehensive system for the regulation of dismissals and redundancies. The relative neglect of dismissal protection can be attributed to the union-employer disputes over plant closures and redundancies. Initially US...