Industrial relations developments in the commerce sector in Europe: Overview report

This report aims to describe and analyse recent developments in industrial relations in the commerce sector in seven selected EU Member States in the years 2007-2010. It focuses, in particular, on comparing the state of play of industrial relations, the social dialogue structures and the current bargaining agreements. The selected countries are: Denmark, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Romania and the United Kingdom. In the light of the current economic crisis, one of the study’s key research questions was whether and to what extent the crisis has changed the scope and the nature of industrial relations in the commerce sector, as well as the industrial relations tools the social partners are using.

Eurofound: Industrial relations developments in the commerce sector in Europe: Executive summary http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/811/en/1/EF10811EN.pdf

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