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Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 10-12 September 2018

Employment relations in the 21st century: Challenges for theory and research in

a changing world of work

CENTRE FOR SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH & INSTITUTE FOR LABOUR LAW

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018

Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 2018 10-12 September 2018, Leuven

Employment relations in the 21st century:

Challenges for theory and research in

a changing world of work

Scientific and Coordinating Board

Valeria Pulignano (CeSO, KU Leuven), Frank Hendrickx (KU Leuven), Richard Hyman (LSE),

Bernd Brandl (Durham University), Wim van Oorschot (CeSO, KU Leuven), Peter Kerckhofs

(Eurofound), Ton Wilthagen (Tilburg University), Sonja Bekker (Tilburg University), Petra Foubert

(Hasselt University), Evelyne Léonard (Université Catholique de Louvain), Monique Ramioul (HIVA,

KU Leuven), Nadja Doerflinger (CeSO, KU Leuven), Adrien Thomas (LISER and KU Leuven),

Valerio De Stefano (KU Leuven), Anneleen Forrier (KU Leuven), Filip Dorssemont (Université

Catholique de Louvain), Auriane Lamine (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Organizing Board

Valeria Pulignano (CeSO, KU Leuven), Frank Hendrickx (KU Leuven), Nadja Doerflinger (CeSO,

KU Leuven), Josephine Van Rymenant (KU Leuven), Dorien Frans (KU Leuven), Silvia Girardi

(LISER and KU Leuven), Martin Lukac (KU Leuven), Evelyne Léonard (Université Catholique de

Louvain), Adrien Thomas (LISER and KU Leuven), Jeff Turk (KU Leuven), Valerio De Stefano (KU

Leuven), Filip Dorssemont (Université Catholique de Louvain), Petra Foubert (Hasselt University),

Christophe Vanroelen (VUB), Stijn Baert (UGent)


Venue

Keynotes & Sessions Address KU Leuven College De Valk Tiensestraat 41 3000, Leuven

Conference walking dinner

Address Irish College

Janseniusstraat 1 3000 Leuven

11 September 2018

18:30

Important: Attendance at the

conference dinner is

conditional upon prior

reservation and payment.

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Conference Program

10 September: Day 1

Welcome (12:00-13:30)

Registration & Lunch (12:00-13:15)

Law Faculty Building: Collegium Falconis (Building entrance)

(Left) Main entrance to the Faculty of Law; (Right) Conference venue – registration, sessions, coffee

(soup) and (salad) served at the registration desk

Welcome to Leuven and IREC (13:15-13:30), room Zeger Van Hee

Welcome by Luc Sels, Rector of KU Leuven

Plenary Session I (13:30-15:00)

“Why and how is work changing?”

Room Zeger Van Hee

Arne Kalleberg (North Carolina at Chapel Hill University)

Discussant: Monique Ramioul (HIVA, KU Leuven)

Anne Davies (Oxford University)

Discussant: Sonja Bekker (Tilburg University)


Session 1 (15:00-16:30)

1A Transformations in contemporary labour markets

Room DV3 01.13

Chair: Valerio De Stefano

Rab & Zaccaria: New challenges, old solutions? New forms of employment and the traditional

concept of social protection.

Eichhorst, Marx & Tobsch: Non-standard employment in Germany: The role of labor market

institutions and structural change.

Bekker & Leschke: Fragmentation of employment relationships and its implications on labour

relations

Bazzani: "Social" sustainability of labour markets, first

1B Stream: A comparative overview of the transformation of public service employment relations in the

21st century: drivers of change and resilience

Room DV3 01.19

Chair: Whyeda Gill-McLure

Gill-McLure: The good employer in UK public services: myth, reality, necessity? Building

resilience in local government industrial relations

Hansen: Sector-level conflict in the public sector and the resulience of labour-management

relations

Mailand: Resilience and renewal in Danish public sector industrial relations - new public

management and beyond

Dorigatti, Mori & Neri: The socio-educational services in Italy between public, private and

hybrid solutions. Working conditions, models of labour regulation and trajectories of

transformation

1C European works councils and transnational workers’ participation

Room DV3 01.01

Chair: Peter Kerckhofs

Pulignano & Waddington: Articulation, communication and identity: the impact of financial

markets on the operation of European works councils

Aranea, González Begega & Köhler: The role of EWCs in management strategies: Divide and

conquer at ArcelorMittal

Dorssemont & Jagodzinski: Why has the review of European Works Council Directive (again)

not happened in due time, why is it necessary, and what are the prospects for the future?

Bulla: European and global works councils as new actors in transnational collective bargaining

Krause: Mandatory Transparency in Employee Matters – New Leverage for Effective

Transnational Worker Participation?


1D Representation of precarious workers

Room DV3 01.07

Chair: Nadja Doerflinger

Meardi, Simms & Adam: Representative claims: trade unions and precariat in Europe

Czarzasty: The challenges of interest representation for precarious workers: evidence from

Poland

Martiskova: New trade union strategies in the integrated periphery - leaving the low-road

model?

Badoi: Disguising precariousness through atypical forms of work in Romania since the

economic crisis

Ulloa: Not in my name: the torturous interactions between trade unions and precarious workers

in Spain's national postal operator, Correos

1E Trajectories of collective bargaining

Room DV3 01.25

Chair: Adrien Thomas

Papadopoulos: An employment model in transition

Bergamante & Marocco: New European economic governance and decentralisation of the

collective bargaining structrure in Italy: did it work out?

Vergis: A Brexit irony: the influence of the post 1980s UK market liberalism tradition on the

transformation of the Greek collective labour law system as part of EMU related 'conditionality'

Ceccon: Are collective agreements doing their job in increasing equality and promoting work-

life balance arrangements? And analysis from the Wageindicator database

Pavlopoulos & Tourtouri: The impact of the economic crisis on the Greek labour market: an

experts' view

1F Collective action, representation and related rights

Room DV3 01.31

Chair: Auriane Lamine

Hiessl: Industrial action in essential services - international comparison

Julio Medel: Reimagining workers collective resistances in contemporary Chile

Burgess: Lay labour court judges as industrial relations actors in Germany, Britain and France:

comparative and interdisciplinary approaches and empirical findings

Rainone: Transformation of labour protection in business restructuring: from CJEU to national

jurisprudence

Bray & Macneil: Reinventing a role for tribunals in collectivism?

Coffee break (16:30-17:00)

& served in the entrance hall


Session 2 (17:00-18:30)

2A The decentralisation of collective bargaining

Room DV3 01.13

Chair: Herman Voogsgeerd

Voskeritsian, Kapotas, Kornelakis & Veliziotis: The dark side of decentralisation: institutional

change and unlawful labour practices in Greece

Carta: Plant collective agreement as autonomous legal tool in times of crisis: a comparison

among three European countries

Mattei: Invisible bonds: interconnections between company welfare, digitization and fidelization

from an empirical survey on decentralized bargaining

Centamore: With or without the state? The contested border province of legislation and

collective bargaining

Kahancová, Kostolný, Szüdi: Index of constructive industrial relations: an innovative way to

account for European diversity in sectoral attributes to collective bargaining

2B Trade unions and societal challenges

Room DV3 01.19

Chair: Jeff Turk

Thomas: Jobs before climate? Trade unions and the politics of emissions reduction

Clarke & Sahin-Dikmen: Trade union approaches to just transition: the example of low energy

contruction

De Spiegelaere & Van Gyes: The non-advent of economic democracy in Belgium: a focus on

the Christian trade union

Doerflinger, Bosschaert, Otto, Opgenhaffen & Vermeerbergen: Between moral and markets?

Developing an interdisciplinary conceptual framework for studying the working conditions in

Catholic social service providers

2C The status of non-standard workers

Room DV3 01.01

Chair: Frank Hendrickx

Gaudio: The fragmentation of the binary relationship between the employer and the employee

Nadas & Sipka: Non-standard workers: New type of contact?

Aloisi & Gramano: Non-standard workers and collective rights

Rossetti, van Berkel & Knies: Solo self-employed and the fulfillment of their needs in Europe

Zekic: Rising inequality and non-standard work


2D Employment relations in the public sector

Room DV3 01.07

Chair: Petra Foubert

Amsing: The governance of good work for all teachers in primary education: comparing

employment relations in the Netherlands and Ontario, Canada

Anagnostopoulos & Vlachos: The dual labour market in Greece: comparisons of employee

engagement in private-public organisations

Hopkins, Kahancová, Mailand & Stiller: New actors and new strategies after NPM reforms:

coping with a trust crisis in collective bargaining across nine EU member states

Sedlakova, Martiskova, Ramos Martin, Godino & Pedaci: The public sector after the crisis: a

limited impact or revitalization of social dialogue and bargaining in primary education?

Rodgers: Conflict and consensus in the application of public and private international law rules

to the employment relationship

2E Activation policies and social protection of workers

Room DV3 01.25

Chair: Sonja Bekker

Paliotta & Resce: Sustainable labor markets: social welfare and protection, working conditions,

job quality and work-life balance

Frans & Pulignano: Occupational welfare dynamics and labour market segmentation: A

comparative company-level case study within manufacturing in Belgium.

Girardi, Pulignano & Maas: Activation as the opportunity to be outsiders? Social assistance

beneficiaries engaged in public work

Dijkstra & Wesseling: Evaluating the effectiveness of activation programs for the youth: a

systematic review

2F Theoretical approaches to contemporary employment research

Room DV3 01.31

Chair: Bernd Brandl

Purcell: Reconceptualising hegemony and despotism in the contemporary labour process

Kerckhofs & Verhoeven: Sociology and representativeness

Dieuaide: What use of comparison to the era of globalization? Lessons from a case study

Welcome reception (18:30-20:00)

Alcoholic and non-alcoholic & served in the entrance hall


11 September: Day 2

Plenary Session II (9:00-10:30)

“How do collective actors deal with the changing world of work?”

Room Zeger Van Hee

Adriana Topo (Padova University)

Discussant: Auriane Lamine (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Roland Erne (University College Dublin)

Discussant: Peter Kerckhofs (Eurofound)

Session 3 (11:00-12:30)

3A The digital transformation

Room DV3 01.13


Joyce: Conceptualising the transformation of employment relations: insights from the platform

economy

Mangan: Fordism, Taylorism and the gig: workplace philosophies in transition

Bednarowicz: Erring on the side of caution? Approaching work in the gig economy from a

European perspective

3B Theoretical approaches to employment relations research

Room DV3 01.19

Chair: Valeria Pulignano

Brandl: Would-be worlds: micro and macro scenarios of European industrial relations

Marginson: Northern European collective wage-setting under strain: contrasting sector and

country responses

Budd: Power and interests in interorganizational relationships: employment relations and labor

standards implications of a broadened conceptual framework

Bologna: Southern-European industrial relations in times of crisis: decentralisation,

Europeanisation, Americanisation

3C Trade unions, new strategies and collective action

Room DV3 01.01

Chair: Manuela Galetto

Heery: Can the old and the new mix? Trade unions and the voluntary Living Wage in the

United Kingdom

Vandaele: Are new members a potential source of change in trade unions? Survey evidence

from a Belgian union

Railton: Young people, trade unions and social movements

Alves: Call centres, precarious workers, trade unions and collective action


3D Labour standards and transnational agreements in Europe

Room DV3 01.07

Chair: Herman Voogsgeerd

Vatta: Labour standards and EU trade agreements

da Costa: Transnational Company Agreements: recent trends and dynamics

Iossa: Letter-box companies' and the 'principle of territoriality' in labour law: Cross-border

challenges to labour and employment in the EU internal market

Laronze & Rocca: Labour law and the quest for social performance indicators

3E Challenges for trade unions and employment relations in Europe

Room DV3 01.25

Chair: Adrien Thomas

Gumbrell-McCormick: European trade unions and Brexit

Hofmann & Schindler: Between class and nation: The challenge of far-right political

orientations among workers for the future of trade unions

Ajzen: New ways of working and power issues: how does telework transform employment

relations?

Horodnic & Williams: Evaluating the association between the prevalence of undeclared work

and level of horizontal and vertical trust in Southeast Europe

3F Social divisions in the European workforce

Room DV3 01.31

Chair: Anneleen Forrier

Mattijssen, Pavlopoulos & Smits: The impact of occupations on the non-standard employment

career

Lukac, Doerflinger & Pulignano: Developing a cross-national comparative framework for

studying labour market segmentation: Measurement equivalence with latent class analysis

Berton, Carreri, Devicienti & Ricci: Collective bargaining and skill formation: evidence from

mixed methods

Lunch break (12:30-14:00)

(soup) and (salad) served in the entrance hall


Session 4 (14:00-15:30)

4A Stream: Part I –– The EU’s new economic governance regime and labour politics (convenor: R.

Erne)

Room DV3 01.13

Chair: Ludwig Zurbriggen

Jordan: NEG and labour politics: EU-level perspectives

Maccarrone: NEG and labour politics: Irish perspectives

Erne: From horizontal to vertical EU integration. Opportunities and threats for organised labour

4B Digitalization and the creative industries

Room DV3 01.19


Zeng: Individual strategies to live and thrive on freelance work

Bellini, Burroni, Dorigatti, Gherardini & Manzo: Strategic but vulnerable: challenges and

opportunities for Italian industrial relations, arising from creative industries

Been, Manzo & Keune: Industrial relations and worker representation in the creative sector in

the Netherlands: A new world of work or vulnerable workers?

Chesalina: Transformation of work and labour relations without transformation of labour law:

current problems in Russia

4C Transformations in the role of employers and employer associations

Room DV3 01.01

Chair: Peter Kerckhofs

Navrbjerg, Ibsen, Hauptmeier & Gooberman: Voluntarism and employers' organisations:

comparing Denmark and the United Kingdom

Aranea, Gooberman & Hauptmeier: Opening the black box of European employers'

organisations

Alsos, Nergaard & Oldervoll: Industrial actions - shifting employer strategies

4D Gender equality, representation and employment

Room DV3 01.07

Chair: Marco Rocca

Bekker & Ghailani: Gender equality and employment: EU instruments to support equality on

the labour market

Rego: Gender representation on the board of employers' associations

Lemeire & Zanoni: Gender equality in Belgian inter-sectoral agreements between 1986 and

2017: assessing the equality performance of collective bargaining in a coordinated system of

industrial relations

Hermans & van Herreweghe: Evolution and determinants of gender differences in the

recruitment of employee representatives


4E Transformations in professional work

Room DV3 01.25

Chair: Monique Ramioul

J. Hyman: The lost voices of professional workers

Samaluk: Entering professional jobs: a Sisyphean task?

Doucet: Foreign trained professionals, recognition of qualifications, and public safety: What

Canadian human rights law has to teach?

4F Employment relations and value chains

Room DV3 01.31

Chair: Guglielmo Meardi

Theunissen, Van Laer & Zanoni: Fragmented employment relations and social identities:

exploring the constitution of the pecking order in a changing world of work

Perez de Guzman & Martinez: Trade unions' conflict and negotiation strategies in the current

context of postal sector liberalization. A comparative analysis: the cases of Belgium and Spain

Amba & Pulignano: Outsourcing practices and trade union strategies in the logistics sector in

Italy

Coffee break (15:30-16:00)

& served in the entrance hall

Session 5 (16:00-17:30)

5A Stream: Part II –– The EU’s new economic governance regime and labour politics (convenor: R.

Erne)

Room DV3 01.13

Chair: Ludwig Zurbriggen

Stan: NEG and labour politics in the health care sector

Szabo: NEG and labour politics in the water sector

Golden: NEG and labour politics in the public transport sector

5B The rights of migrants and posted workers

Room DV3 01.19

Chair: Sonja Bekker

Tibajev: Employment relations and wages for immigrants

Matuszczyk: More security or flexibility?

De Wispelaere: Intra-EU posting and the threat of social dumping: a comprehensive evaluation

Rocca: Not dead yet. Legal strategies at the national level and the reform of the EU Posting of

Workers Directive


5C The challenges of digitalisation for trade unions

Room DV3 01.01


Vergis: Not staying idle in the moving train of the gig economy: redefining the employment

relationship or reinventing collective organisation?

Tassinari & Maccarrone: Varieties of unionism meet the platform economy: a comparison of

gig workers' organizing practices and trade union responses in Italy and the UK

Alves: Digital democracy? No, infocracy! The uses of social media by the Portugese unions in

the health sector

Gasparri & Tassinari: ‘Smart' industrial relations in the making? Insights from the analysis of

union responses to digitalisation in Italy and Spain

5D Job quality, well-being and satisfaction at work

Room DV3 01.07

Chair: Monique Ramioul

Marczak & Tierney: What is the nature of the association between the use of new forms of

technology and employee well-being?

Tisch: Old approaches to new phenomena - Implications of the changing world of work on

safety and health through the lenses of classical labour science theory

Saloniemi: Do unsatisfying workplace practices drive to quit?

Befort, Borelli & Budd: Using efficiency, equity, and voice for defining job quality and legal

regulation for achieving it

5E Transnational worker representation and participation

Room DV3 01.25

Chair: Paul Marginson

Larsson: Transnational trade union co-operation networks on sectoral level in Europe

Haipeter & Rosenbohm: Transnational representation of workers' interests in MNC and the

problem of articulation

Aranea, Lafuente Hernández & Rosenbohm: Board-level employee representation in European

Companies (SEs): new prospects for transnational labour voice?

5F Changing employment relations in Central and Eastern European countries

Room DV3 01.31

Chair: Jeff Turk

Skorupinska-Cieslak: Models of works councils in Polish companies

Surdykowska & Adamczyk: The 'company-based' model of the trade union movement in

Central Europe and the consequences of its expected collapse

Kalanta: Failure of social dialogue in Eastern Europe: the case of Lithuania in perspective of

comparative political economy

Adascalitei & Kirov: Remaking industrial relations: Deregulation and labour market reforms in

Romania and Bulgaria


Panel discussion (16:00-17:30)

The future of social dialogue in Belgium and the Netherlands

Room Raadszaal

Panel introduction:

Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven), Frank Hendrickx (KU Leuven) and Marc van der Meer

(UTilburg)

Presentation:

Industrial relations systems in the low countries: characteristics and challenges by Maarten

Keune (UvA) and Evelyne Leonard (UCL)

Panelists:

Marc Leemans, President ACV/CSC (Christian Trade Union - Belgium)

Paul Soete, Consultant IR, President Management Committee National Social Security Office,

Representative of the Belgian employers in the European Economic and Social Committee

Paul Windey, President National Labour Council (Belgium)

Erik Pentinga, Trade Union Official (TAW and FLEX) at FNV (the Netherlands)

Laurens Harteveld, Senior Advisor AWVN (the Netherlands)

Conference walking dinner (18:30-23:00)

At the Irish College (Janseniusstraat 1) for registered participants; organizers will walk the

participants from College De Valk to the Irish College at 18:15. Please be on time!

12 September: Day 3

Session 6 (9:00-10:30)

6A Roundtable: Conciliation and mediation in collective labor conflicts: a cross-cultural approach to

prevention and intervention

Room DV3 01.13

In this session, the highly different regulations and practices in conciliation and mediation in

collective labor conflicts around the world will be explored. This is a preview of a new publication

presenting studies on 17 countries, including China, India, USA and 12 European countries. First

Martin Euwema will present two models for third party intervention, and global practices and

trends. Second, Mark Bray and Johanna Macneil, will present the case of conciliation and

mediation in collective labor conflicts in Australia. Through a round table we explore the

challenges for both academics, policy makers and practice.


6B The dynamics of European social dialogue

Room DV3 01.19

Chair: Paul Marginson

Broughton, Voss, Pulignano & Franca: Articulation of the European social dialogue: main

issues and challenges

Lindner: The breakdown and reestablishment of European social dialogue

Galetto, Larsson, Weber, Bechter & Prosser: European sectoral social dialogue: insights into

the experiences of Germany, Italy and Sweden: so far away, so close?

Bechter, Prosser, Galetto, Larsson & Weber: What are the conditions that influence European

sectoral social dialogue?

6C Variations in wages and wage-setting in Europe

Room DV3 01.01

Chair: Bernd Brandl

Garcia Hernandez: Are wage developments and wage inequality affected by collective

bargaining reforms?

Lehr: Understanding reference point formation for income comparisons. A theoretical model

and empirical tests using a survey of employed persons in the Netherlands

Kauhanen, Nätti & Ojala: The impact of temporary work on subsequent earnings in the long-

run

Scott: Variation of intra-UK regulation of agricultural wages in the UK: institutional change, and

evidence of the impact of abolishing the Agricultural Wages Board in England

6D Justice, fairness and equality at work

Room DV3 01.07

Chair: Frank Hendrickx

Foster & Masso: Re-imagining work around the life-course: the role of work accommodation,

job-design and industrial relations in promoting equality and fairness in the workplace

Klamer: Towards a conceptualization of workplace dignity

Bell: Workers on the margins: people with intellectual disabilities and labour law

Vanhegen: Work incapacity: the role of UN disability law in the case law of the European Court

of Justice. Are there any limits?

Manevska: Whose voices get suprressed and why? Studying barriers to employee voice in the

Netherlands

6E Challenges and new strategies at the workplace-level

Room DV3 01.25


Hermans: A strategy in search of partners: trade union engagement in 'workplace innovation'

Jégou: Assessing the democratic quality of participative management: insights from 'liberated'

firms

Signoretti: Lean production outcomes for workers in large and small firms: the missing union

action

Snook & Whittall: The contest for workplace employee representation: still seeking answers?

Hann: The role of HRM and trade unions in the resolution of workplace conflict in the UK


6F European economic governance and industrial relations

Room DV3 01.31

Chair: Jeff Turk

Tassinari: Resilient political exchange? Tripartite interest intermediation in the Eurozone

periphery after the great recession

Larsen & de Paz Campos Lima: The financial pillars of European Industrial Relations -

Important means of action?

Voogsgeerd: Partial harmonization, minimum harmonization, full harmonization and

coordination of EU labour law. What's in a name?

Zurbriggen: Governance by numbers: comprehending the EU's new Governance Regime and

its (intended) de- and (unintended) re-politicization effects

Plenary Session III (11:00-12:30)

“Looking forward—the future of work”

Room Zeger Van Hee

Richard Hyman (London School of Economics)

Discussant: Bernd Brandl (Durham University)

Manfred Weiss (Frankfurt University)

Discussant: Petra Foubert (Hasselt University)

Lunch break (12:30-14:00)

(soup) and (salad) served in the entrance hall


The future of social dialogue in Belgium and

the Netherlands

Panel Discussion

Venue: Raadzaal

Time: 11 September, 16:00-17:30

Looking back to the crisis

Taking up responsibility

Europe Future

Panel introduction: Valeria Pulignano

(KU Leuven)

Frank Hendrickx (KU Leuven)

Marc van der Meer (UTilburg)

Presentation: Maarten Keune (UvA) & Evelyne Leonard (UCL)

Industrial relations systems in the low

countries: characteristics and challenges

Panelists: Marc Leemans (President ACV/CSC, Christian Trade Union - Belgium)

Paul Soete (Consultant IR, President Management Committee National

Social Security Office, Representative of the Belgian

employers in the European Economic and Social

Committee)

Paul Windey (President National Labour Council, Belgium)

Erik Pentinga (Trade Union Official (TAW and FLEX), FNV (the

Netherlands)

Laurens Harteveld (Senior Advisor AWVN, the Netherlands)


Keynote Speakers

Arne L. Kalleberg is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology

at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published

extensively on topics related to the sociology of work, organizations,

occupations and industries, labor markets, and social stratification.

He is the author of Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and

Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s–2000s

(Russell Sage Foundation 2013) and, more recently, Precarious

Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies (Polity

Press, 2018). Other current projects include studies of the processes

of mobility out of low-wage jobs in the United States and the politics

of precarious work in Indonesia, Japan, and Korea. He served as

the President of the American Sociological Association in 2007-8 and

is currently the editor of Social Forces, an International Journal of

Social Research.

Professor Anne Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy in the

Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, where she is currently also

Dean of the Faculty. Her research is in public law (with a particular

interest in government contracts and public services) and

labour/employment law. Her interests in the labour law field are wide-

ranging, encompassing international, European and domestic law,

though her most recent work has focused in particular on issues

relating to casual work and working time. Her books (published as

A.C.L. Davies) include Perspectives on Labour Law, published by

Cambridge University Press in the Law in Context series in 2004, with

a second edition in 2009, EU Labour Law, published by Elgar in 2012,

and Employment Law, published by Pearson in 2015.

Adriana Topo is Full Professor of Employment and Labour Law at

the University of Padova. With Prof. Gianguido Balandi she founded

the Summer School in International Labour Law of the University of

Ferrara in partnership with the University of Padova. She is member

of the Editorial Board of the journals “Rivista italiana di Diritto del

Lavoro”, “Lavoro e Diritto”, and “Variazioni su Temi di Diritto del

lavoro”. In 2017 prof. Topo was Fellow at the IALS London. Prof.

Adriana Topo is the President of the Guarantee Committee of the

University of Padova the board in charge of promoting positive

actions and monitoring discriminations against University’s

employees and students. She is also member of the Board of

Directors of Fondazione Cariparo, a charity trust managing 2bn

Euros assets and member of the Bar Association of Padova.

Photo credit: Piranha Photography


Professor Roland Erne is Jean Monnet Chair of European

Integration and Employment Relations at University College

Dublin (UCD). He has been teaching international and

comparative employment relations at UCD since 2003. He is also

an adjunct professor at the ILR School, Cornell University and has

been a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo

(2013-14), visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de

Cachan (2012) as well as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for

the Study of Social Justice, University of Oxford (2008). In 2017,

Erne has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC)

Consolidator Grant for a research project entitled Labour Politics

and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime (European

Unions), which aims to explore the challenges and possibilities

that the EU's new governance regime poses to labour movements

and the methodological nationalism in the field.

Richard Hyman is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the

London School of Economics and founding editor of the European

Journal of Industrial Relations. He also founded and coordinates the

annual Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC). He has

written extensively on the themes of industrial relations, trade

unionism, industrial conflict and labour market policy, and is author of

a dozen books as well as some two hundred journal articles and book

chapters. His comparative study Understanding European Trade

Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society (Sage, 2001) is widely

cited by scholars working in this field. His book, Trade Unions in

Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices (with Rebecca Gumbrell-

McCormick), was published by Oxford University Press in October

2013 with a second edition in June 2018. A key theme of his current

research addresses resistance to neoliberalism and austerity.

Manfred Weiss is Emeritus Professor of labour law and civil law at

the Goethe University in Frankfurt since October 2008. He was full

professor since 1974, first at the University of Hamburg and then at

the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and visiting Professor at many

universities all over the world. He was appointed President of the

International Labour and Employment Research Association (ILERA)

(2000–2003), President of its German Branch (GIRA) (1990–1995)

and Deputy President of German Lawyers' Association (DJT) (1998–

2002). He has been for many years Consultant to the International

Labour Organisation and to the Commission of the EU. He has an

extensive record of publications regarding German, European,

International and Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations.

He received Honorary Doctorates in Budapest (2005), Lima (2006),

Bordeaux (2011), Northwest University (NWU) / South Africa (2015)

and he received the Award of the Labour Law Research Network

(LLRN) for outstanding contribution to Labour Law in 2015.

Adamczyk Slawomir, National Commission of NSZZ Solidarnosc


List of participants

Adamczyk Slawomir, National Commission of NSZZ

Solidarnosc

Adascalitei Dragos, Lecturer Sheffield University

Management School

Ajzen Michel, Teaching and Research Assistant

UCL

Aloisi Antonio, PhD Researcher UniBocconi and

European University Institute

Alsos Kristin, Fafo

Alves Paulo, Assistant Professor ISCTE

Ambra Maria Concetta, Researcher University of

Rome Sapienza

Amsing Mariette, PhD Candidate Tilburg Law School

Anagnostopoulos Achilleas, University of Applied

Sciences TEI of Thessaly

Aranea Mona, Postdoctoral Researcher Cardiff

Business School

Badoi Delia, Researcher Research Institute for

Quality of Life Romanian Academy of Science

Bazzani Tania, Researcher Humboldt University and

Pompeu Fabra University

Bechter Barbara, Durham University Business

School

Bednarowicz Bartlomiej, PhD Researcher University

of Antwerp

Been Wike, Researcher University of Amsterdam

Bekker Sonja, Associate professor Tilburg University

Bellini Andrea, Research Fellow University of

Florence

Bell Mark, Professor Trinity College Dublin

Bergamante Francesca, Researcher INAPP

Berton Fabio, University of Torino Department of

Economics and Statistics

Bologna Silvio, Researcher in Labour Law University

of Palermo

Bottero Matteo, PhD Fellow University of

Copenhagen

Brandl Bernd, Durham University Business School

Bray Mark, Professor of Employment Studies

Newcastle Business School, University of

Newcastle, Australia

Broughton Andrea, Associate Director Ecorys UK

Budd John, Professor University of Minnesota

Bulla Martin, Assistant Professor Trnava University

Faculty of Law

Burgess Pete, Research Fellow University of

Greenwich

Carta Cinzia, University of Bologna

Ceccon Daniela, Wage Indicator Foundation

Centamore Giulio, postdoctoral researcher

University of Bologna

Chesalina Olga, Senior Researcher Max Planck

Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

Clarke Linda, Professor University of Westminster

Czarzasty Jan, Warsaw School of Economics

da Costa Isabel, Senior researcher CNRS IDHES

ENS Paris Saclay

Davies Anne, Oxford University Faculty of Law

De Spiegelaere Stan, Researcher ETUI

De Stefano Valerio, Professor Institute for Labour

Law KU Leuven

De Vita Luisa, Sapienza University of Rome

De Wispelaere Frederic, Onderzoeksexpert HIVA

KU Leuven

Dieuaide Patrick, Associate Professeur University of

Sorbonne Nouvelle

Dijkstra Geerte, Senior lecturer Social Work Hanze

University Groningen

Doerflinger Nadja, Postdoc at the Centre for

Sociological Resarch, KU Leuven

Dorigatti Lisa, University of Milan

Doucet Frederick, PhD Student Université de

Montreal

Dowling Martin, Senior Teaching Fellow University

of St Andrews

Durri Ilda, PhD student KU Leuven

Eichhorst Werner, Coordinator of Labor Market and

Social Policy in Europe Institute of Labor

Economics

Erne Roland, Quinn School of Business UCD

Euwema Martin, KU Leuven

Forrier Anneleen, KU Leuven

Foster Debbie, Cardiff University

Foubert Petra, University Hasselt

Franke Milena, PhD Student KU Leuven

Frans Dorien, PhD Student KU Leuven

Galanti Costanza, University College Dublin

Galetto Manuela, Assistant Professor University of

Warwick

Garcia Hernandez Rosa, Autonomous University of

Barcelona

Gaudio Giovanni, PhD Student Universita

Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Gill McLure Whyeda, Senior Lecturer University of

Wolverhampton

Girardi Silvia, Phd Fellow LISER and KU Leuven

Golden Darragh, Postdoctoral fellow University

College Dublin

GumbrellMcCormick Rebecca, Birkbeck University

of London

Hann Deborah, Cardiff University


Hansen Nana Wesley, Associate Professor

University of Copenhagen

Harteveld Laurens, Senior Advisor AWVN

Hauptmeier Marco, Cardiff University

Heery Edmund, Professor of Employment Relations

Cardiff Business School

Hendrickx Frank, Professor, Institute for Labour

Law, KU Leuven

Hermans Maarten, senior research associate HIVA

KU Leuven

Hiessl Christina, Scientific Collaborator Trier

University

Hofmann Julia, Chamber of Labour Vienna

Horodnic Ioana Alexandra, Marie Curie Research

Fellow The University of Sheffield

Hrubcova Lenka, Labor Management Leader EE

Toyota Tsusho Europe SA Czech Republic

Branch

Hyman Jeffrey, Emeritus professor University of St

Andrews

Hyman Richard, LSE

Iossa Andrea, Lund University

Jagodzinski Romuald, Senior Researcher European

Trade Union Institute

Jandova Darina

Janssen Joern, European Institute for Construction

Labour Research

Jegou Olivier, Teaching Assistant Université

Catholique de Louvain

Jiar Rim, HR Specialist Toyota Tsusho Europe SA

Jordan Jamie, University College Dublin

Julio Medel Gabriela, PhD Student University of

Bristol

Kalanta Marius, Vytautas Magnus University

Kalleberg Arne, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill

Kauhanen Merja, Labour Institute for Economic

Research

Kerckhofs Peter, Research Officer Eurofound

Keune Maarten, Professor UvA

Klamer Renze, PhD Fellow Aarhus University

Kostolny Jakub, CELSI

Krause Ruediger, Professor Georg August

University Göttingen

Laehteenmaeki Liisa, Postdoc fellow University of

Turku

Lafuente Hernandez Sara, Researcher ETUI

Lamine Auriane, Université Catholique de Louvain

Laronze Fleur, Maître de conférences HDR en Droit

Université de Strasbourg

Larsen Trine Pernille, Associate Professor FAOS


Larsson Bengt, Dept of sociology University of

Gothenburg

Leemans Marc, President ACV/CSC

Lehr Alex, Assistant Professor Radboud University

Lemeire Veronika, Phd student Hasselt University

Lenaerts Karolien, Research manager HIVA KU

Leuven

Leonard Evelyne, Professor UCL

Lindner Vincent, University of Göttingen

Lucciarini Silvia, Researcher Sapienza Rome

University

Lukac Martin, PhD Student, KU Leuven

Maccarrone Vincenzo, PhD student UCD

Macneil Johanna, Professor of Employment

Relations The University of Newcastle

Marczak Magda, Coventry University Lecturer in

Clinical Psychology

Mailand Mikkel, FAOS University of Copenhagen

Manevska Katerina, Institute for Management

Research Radboud University

Mangan David, City University of London

Marginson Paul, University of Warwick

Martiskova Monika, Researcher Charles University

Marocco Manuel, Researcher INAPP

Martens Albert, Professor KU Leuven

Martinez Esteban, professeur ULB

Mattei Alberto, University of Verona

Mattijssen Lucille, PhD Student Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam

Matuszczyk Kamil, University of Warsaw

Meardi Guglielmo, University of Warwick

Meylemans Lise, Researcher HIVA KU Leuven

Mori Anna, Postdoc researcher University of Milan

Nadas Gyorgy, associate professor Debreceni

Egyetem

Nash David, Cardiff University

Naughton Mary, University College Dublin

Navrbjerg Steen, Associate Professor FAOS


Nergaard Kristine, Fafo

Papadopoulos Orestis, Keele University

Pavlopoulos Dimitris, Assistant Professor Vrije

Universiteit Amsterdam

Pentinga Eric, FNV

Perez de Guzman Sofia, Universidad de Cadiz

Pulignano Valeria, Professor at the Centre for

Sociological Research, KU Leuven

Purcell Christina, Lecturer Manchester Metropolitan

University Business School

Rab Henriett, Associate Professor University of

Debrecen

Railton Annie, Speaker MA student Ruskin College

Oxford

Rainone Silvia, PhD Candidate Tilburg University

Ramioul Monique, Head of Work Organisation and

Social Dialogue Research Group, HIVA KU

Leuven

Rego Raquel, Research fellow Instituto de Ciencias

Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa


Resce Massimo, Researcher INAPP Public Policy

Innovation

Rocca Marco, Postdoctoral researcher Hasselt

University

Rodgers Lisa, University of Leicester

Rosenbohm Sophie, University of Duisburg Essen

Rossetti Silvia, Postdoctoral researcher Utrecht

University School of Governance

Sahin Dikmen Melahat, Research Fellow University

of Westminster

Samaluk Barbara, Research Fellow University of

Greenwich

Saloniemi Antti, Professor Univeristy of Tampere

Schindler Saskja, University of Vienna

Scott Peter, Senior Lecturer University of

Portsmouth

Sedlakova Maria, Researcher Central European

Labour Studies Institute

Signoretti Andrea, Department of Sociology and

Social Research

Sipka Peter, Assistant Professor University of

Debrecen

Skorupinska Cieslak Katarzyna, University of Lodz

Department of Institutional Economics

Snook Jereme, Sheffield Hallam University

Soete Paul, Consultant IR, President Management

Committee National Social Security Office,

Representative of the Belgian employers in the

European Economic and Social Committee

Stan Sabina, Lecturer in Sociology and

Anthropology Dublin City University

Stiller Sabina, Researcher AIAS University of

Amsterdam

Stylogiannis Charalampos, PhD Student KU Leuven

Surdykowska Barbara, National Commission of

NSZZ Solidarnosc

Szabo Imre, Post doctoral researcher University

College Dublin

Taes Simon, PhD researcher Institute for Labour

Law

Tassinari Arianna, PhD student University of

Warwick

Theunissen Anne, UHasselt

Thomas Adrien, LISER & KU Leuven

Tibajev Andrey, Linkoping University

Tisch Anita, Head of Research Department

Changing World of Work Federal Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health

Topo Adriana, Professor of Law University of

Padova

Turk Jeff, KU Leuven

Ulloa Ester, Professor University of Cadiz

Van Berlo Marinus Johannes, Tilburg University

Vandaele Kurt, ETUI

van der Meer Marc, Professor University of Tilburg

Van Laer Koen, Hasselt University

Vatta Alessia, Assistant Professor University of

Trieste

Vereycken Yennef, Researcher HIVA KU Leuven

Vergis Fotis, Lecturer in Law The University of

Manchester School of Law

Voogsgeerd Herman, University of Groningen

Voskeritsian Horen, Birkbeck College

Weber Sabrina, Pforzheim University

Weiss Manfred, Professor emeritus Goethe

University Frankfurt Germany

Windey Paul, President National Labour Council

Zaccaria Marton Leo, senior lecturer Debreceni

Egyetem

Zekic Nuna, Assistant professor Tilburg University

Zeng Yiluyi, University of Warwick

Zondi Nqobile, University of KwaZulu Natal

Zurbriggen Ludwig, Senior Lecturer Lucerne

University of Applied Sciences

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