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Labour Mobility in Construction: European Implications of the Laval un Partneri Dispute with Swedish Labour
Charles WoolfsonJeffrey Sommerssubject
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementEuropean social modelConstruction contractbusiness.industryStrategy and ManagementLabour law05 social sciences050209 industrial relationsInternational tradeDirectiveGeneral Business Management and Accounting0506 political scienceMarket economyManagement of Technology and Innovation0502 economics and businessSocial dialogueTrade unionEuropean integration050602 political science & public administrationEconomicsmedia_common.cataloged_instanceEU enlargement; European social model; posted workers Directive; labour standards; industrial disputes; construction industry;European unionbusinessmedia_commondescription
The accession to the European Union of new member states from central and eastern Europe, with weak trade union movements, poorly developed social dialogue and inferior working conditions, has been viewed as a threat to regulated labour standards in the EU-15. This article examines a high-profile labour dispute arising from the conditions of Latvian construction contract labour in Sweden. The dispute exposes weaknesses in the protective floor of minimum standards offered by the posted workers Directive. It also goes to the core of the debate about the preservation of a ‘European social model’ and the proposed Services Directive.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-03-01 | European Journal of Industrial Relations |