European Industrial Relations: Transnational Relations and Global Challenges

European industrial relations under international pressure A six-country comparison

Introduction: the EU and national industrial relations A paradox has emerged in the last two decades in Europe. Interest in comparing employment relations has increased, under international pressure to increase productivity, employment rates and competitiveness and to attract foreign investors and foreign skilled workers. International organisations, governments, trade unions, multinational com...

Industrial Relations Centre

Teaching Comparative Industrial Relations

Introduction Mark Bray Comparative research is vital to the development of all social science disciplines. Indeed, many scholars have argued that the making of comparisons is the only method by which explanations of social behaviour and the development of theory occur. For example, the author of one comparative study of economic development in 'settler' societies argued: Only one analytical met...

Industrial Relations Research Association

The package of increases in defined-contribution pension plan contribution limits that Congress enacted in 2001 could have benefited at most 8 percent of plan participants and 3 percent of all workers. High earners were potentially more likely to benefit than low earners, and potential beneficiaries generally had higher earnings than other participants. The increase in the percentage limit on c...

Industrial relations and workplace adaptation

For persons with reduced work capacity, including disabled and elderly people, employment opportunities are influenced by access to work accommodation. This project aims to improve social partners’ expertise through industrial relations in the field of workplace accommodation, and as a result promote the inclusion of disabled and older people in the workplace. The purpose of this retrospective ...