scholarly journals MUDANÇAS NA LEGISLAÇÃO TRABALHISTA, SINDICATO E EMPRESAS MULTINACIONAIS

Caderno CRH ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (86) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
José Ricardo Ramalho ◽  
Rodrigo Salles Pereira dos Santos ◽  
Iram Jácome Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
Union Action ◽  
Precarious Jobs ◽  
Employment Instability

<div><p class="trans-title"><span>A proposta do texto é relacionar as alterações recentes na legislação brasileira do trabalho (principalmente a partir da reforma trabalhista aprovada pelo Congresso Nacional, em 2017) com os interesses das empresas multinacionais instaladas no país, tomando como exemplo a indústria automotiva. Busca identificar de que forma, nesses últimos anos, a redução da proteção laboral e o aprofundamento da instabilidade no emprego têm sido utilizados pelas empresas para aumentar o controle sobre os trabalhadores e para desqualificar a ação de suas instituições de representação. A precarização dos laços de emprego e o uso, agora legal, de terceirização e quarteirização foram incorporados às atividades produtivas e aprofundaram estratégias voltadas para o trabalho como formas de obter melhores resultados econômicos.</span></p><p class="trans-title"> </p><p class="trans-title"><strong>CHANGES IN LABOUR LAW, TRADE UNION AND MULTINATIONALCOMPANIES</strong></p><p>The text aims at relating recent changes in the Brazilian labour legislation (mainly after the Labour Reform, approved by the National Congress in 2017) with the interests of the multinational companies based in the country, taking as an example the automotive industry. The purpose is to identify how, in the last years, the reduction of labour protection and the increase in employment instability have been used by companies to raise the control over workers and to disqualify trade union action. Precarious jobs, and the use, now legal, of subcontracting, have been incorporated to production, and have strengthened strategies that stress on work to improve their economic results.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Labour Reform; Trade union action; Multinationals companies; Automotive industry; Subcontracting</p><p class="trans-title"> </p></div><div><p class="trans-title"><strong>CHANGEMENTS DANS LE DROIT DU TRAVAIL, LES SYNDICATS ET LES MULTINATIONALES</strong></p><p>La proposition du texte est de faire le lien entre les récents changements apportés à la législation brésilienne du travail (principalement de la réforme du travail approuvée par le Congrès national, en 2017) avec les intérêts des multinationales installées dans le pays, en prenant comme un exemple de l’industrie automobile. Il cherche à identifier comment, ces dernières années, la réduction de la protection du travail et l’aggravation de l’instabilité de l’emploi ont été utilisées par les entreprises pour accroître le contrôle sur les travailleurs et disqualifier l’action de leurs institutions de représentation. La précarisation des liens d’emploi et l’utilisation, désormais légale, externalisée et quarteirisation ont été incorporées dans les activités productives et des stratégies approfondies visant à travailler comme moyens d’obtenir de meilleurs résultats économiques.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Réforme du travail; Action syndicale; Multinationales; Industrie automobile; Sous-traitance</p><p class="trans-title"><strong><br /></strong></p></div>

scholarly journals Guaranteed Minimum Income: New Spaces for Trade Union Action

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Eusebi Colàs-Neila ◽  
Josep Fargas
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Union Action ◽  
Guaranteed Minimum Income

Trade unions have developed a very important role guaranteeing minimum incomes through collective bargaining. However, after the last Great Recession and austerity policies imposed by the Troika on many countries, among which Spain, the traditional mechanism of fixing minimum wages has become less effective on many occasions. Nonetheless, it has been argued that trade unions are following various new paths in order to guarantee minimum wages, both in Spain and in comparative labour law, and these share several common trends. This paper aims to analyse these paths and which convergences in trade union practices and strategies can be detected in this field. Los sindicatos han desarrollado un papel muy importante en garantizar ingresos mínimos a través de la negociación colectiva. No obstante, tras la gran recesión y las políticas de austeridad impuestas por la Troika a muchos países, entre ellos España, el mecanismo tradicional de fijación de salarios mínimos ha sido menos eficaz en muchas ocasiones. A pesar de ello, se sostiene que los sindicatos están siguiendo diversos nuevos caminos para garantizar ingresos mínimos, tanto en España como en el derecho del trabajo comparado, que comparten muchas tendencias comunes. Este artículo se centra en analizar esas vías y las convergencias en las prácticas y estrategias de los sindicatos en este terreno.

scholarly journals The emergence of coercive federal Australian labour law, 1901–2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 002218562110039
Author(s):  
Eugene Schofield-Georgeson
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Union Power ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
Employment Legislation

Over the past two decades, industrial relations scholarship has observed a trend towards an increasingly punitive industrial environment along with the ‘re-regulation’ of labour law. Absent from much of this literature, however, has been an empirical and historical measurement or comparison of the scale and quality of this systemic change. By surveying coercive and penal federal industrial legislation over the period 1901–2020, this study shows empirically that over the last 40 years, there has been a steep increase in the amount of coercive federal labour legislation in Australia. It further measures and compares the volume of coercive labour legislation enacted specifically against ‘labour’ and ‘capital’ or both throughout the same period (1901–2020). Analysis reveals a correlation between a high volume of coercive labour legislation with low levels of trade union power and organisation. Argued here is that coercive labour legislation has been crucial to transitioning from a liberal conciliation and arbitration model of Australian industrial relations towards a neoliberal framework of employment legislation. In the former, regulation was more collective, informal and egalitarian (embodied by the sociological concept of ‘associative democracy’). Under a neoliberal framework, regulation is now more individualised, technical, punitive and rarely enforced, resulting in less equal material outcomes.

scholarly journals From Global Unions to the Shop Floor: Trade Union Networks in Transnational Corporations in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Framil Filho ◽  
Leonardo Mello e Silva
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
Union Action ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
Labour Power

This article analyses the origins, development and organisation of cross-union, company-based trade union networks in transnational corporations in the metal and chemical industries in Brazil. Collectively developed by local, national, foreign and international trade union organisations, this kind of union action was introduced in the country in the early 2000s as a way to connect local labour representatives organising workers in different locations within the same company. Networks strengthen local labour power and stimulate transnational connections. Promoting solidarity among workers across multiple factories, they offer the perspective for a global unionism connected to shop-floor organisation. Despite these achievements, networks face important challenges. Power imbalances, the reliance on restrictive social dialogue arrangements and the compromise with traditional structures limit the reach of the strategy.  KEY WORDS: globalisation; trade unions; new labour transnationalism; trade union networks; Brazil

scholarly journals BARGAINING IN BAD FAITH IN SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR LAW: AN ANTIDOTE?

Obiter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Leppan ◽  
Avinash Govindjee ◽  
Ben Cripps
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
South African ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
International Labour Organisation ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Labour Organisation

While good-faith bargaining is recognized in many overseas jurisdictions and by the International Labour Organisation, such a duty has not been incorporated in South African labour legislation. Given the many recent examples of labour unrest in South Africa, it is time to consider whether there should be a duty to bargain in good faith when taking part in collective bargaining. Recognizing such a duty would arguably benefit both employers and employees and South Africa as a whole.

scholarly journals The changing face of union action put to the test by neo-liberal reforms in France

Tempo Social ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Baptiste Giraud
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Union Action ◽  
The Relationship

This article reviews how French trade union are coping with the neo-liberal policies since the early 1980s. It shows their divergent reactions, and how these liberal reforms are implemented in a context of transformation of trade union action: the use of strikes is more difficult at the same time as the relationship between trade unions and collective bargaining is transformed in a logic of depoliticizing their strategies of action. These developments did not prevent a resurgence of strikes in the 2000s. It reveals the limits of the trade unions’ power of political influence, that implies the use of collective action. However, strikes have declined further in recent years, revealing the weakening of trade union mobilisation power.

scholarly journals The Influence of Atypical Employment on Socioeconomic Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Nikita L. Lyutov
Keyword(s):  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Labour Market Segmentation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
Atypical Employment ◽  
Positive Effect

The Subject of the Study. The article deals with an issue of impact of atypical employment on the socioeconomic development on micro- and macro levels. The Purpose of the Study is to discover the links between the introduction of atypical forms of employment and socioeconomic development. The Main Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Study: as the implementation of various forms of atypical employment is one of the aspects of flexibility in employment relations’ regulation, the author starts with a general analysis of impact of general flexibility of employment on the economy. This section of the article contains the conclusion that a thesis about positive effect of labour law flexibility on the economic effectiveness remains unproven; – the second part of the article contains an analysis of the relations between the specific forms of atypical employment and the state of economy. The conclusion has been made that ill-considered implementation of such forms into the labour legislation leads to such negative consequences to the economy as the labour market segmentation and volatility, rising incomes gap and lowering the purchasing power. – the thesis is made that Russian labour legislation modification in the field of atypical employment development is only acceptable with a view to make the already existing atypical employment come out of informal sector, and in a way that takes into account the interests of both parties of the employment relationship.

De werkrechtersraad van beroep van Gent

Pro Memorie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-179
Author(s):  
Jasper Van de Woestijne
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Labour Legislation

Abstract In Belgium, the administration of justice with regard to labour law is in the hands of specialised courts, staffed by a combination of professional and lay judges. This has historical roots. An important step in the evolution of these courts is the establishment of the ‘werkrechtersraden van beroep’ (‘conseils de prud’hommes d’appel’). From their creation in 1913 until their reform in 1967, these councils were the highest authority in Belgium to settle disputes on the work floor and consequently the highest interpreter of labour legislation. The institution constantly balanced on the remarkable interface between law and labour. In this contribution, a fact check is carried out to see how this balance worked in practice. An exceptional episode are the periods in which this system was placed under tension. Therefore, this contribution pays special attention to the case law pronounced by the werkrechtersraad van beroep of Ghent in the crisis-ridden period 1935-1950.

9. Collective labour law

2019 ◽  
pp. 635-703
Author(s):  
Ian Smith ◽  
Aaron Baker ◽  
Owen Warnock
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The Law

This chapter considers the laws that affect trade unions and employment relations at a collective level, with the exception of strikes and other industrial action which are examined in Chapter 10. The chapter begins by considering the legal status of a trade union and the statutory concept of trade union independence. The applicability of trade union law to workers in the gig economy is also considered. The focus then shifts to the ways in which the law seeks to secure freedom of association, by provisions which protect and support union membership and activities including giving protection against discrimination and providing rights to time off for union duties and activities. The chapter then turns to the concept of recognition of unions for collective bargaining, and the legal rights that come with recognition. It also examines the statutory system for securing recognition. The relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights is considered throughout as are the changes made by the Trade Union Act 2016. The law relating to domestic and European works councils is also considered.

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