European Framework Agreements from the Perspective of Central and Eastern European Countries

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-94-035-4409-0
Verlag: Kluwer Law International

Buch, Englisch, Band 121, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations

European transnational company agreements (TCAs) – designed to ensure appropriate employment conditions within the entire business group, including subsidiary companies – are often perceived as opportunities to promote social dialogue. However, the limited collective bargaining coverage and/or lower employment standards that characterise Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) have shaped a labour relations environment different from that of Western Europe. In this volume, a group of labour law experts thoroughly investigates the labour-related challenges arising in this context.

The overall approach is twofold: relevant literature and court decisions are taken into account, but a major strength of the endeavour derives from in-depth personal interviews with trade unionists, representatives of employers’ organisations, and European Works Council delegates. Building on this rich foundation, the contributors examine such factors as the following:

- the structural fragility of TCAs combined with their continuing symbolic significance;

- linking social dialogue with the simultaneous digitalisation;

- bridging voluntary corporate initiatives and authentic, autonomous collective bargaining;

- effect of such EU legislation as the 2022 Adequate Minimum Wages Directive;

- advancing occupational safety and health;

- hybrid forms of disruption and symbolic protest;

- information, consultation, and participation rights during cross-border corporate reorganisations; and

- employers’ obligations in subcontracting and supply chain contexts.

Recognising that European labour law and social policy have entered a new phase in the past decade, the contributors present the role of TCAs as a significant element in a broader transformation of labour relations. Unions, employers, policymakers, practitioners, and academics concerned with labour and employment law will welcome not only the contributors’ critical diagnosis and practical policy-relevant guidance but also their recognition that TCAs can serve as laboratories of transnational labour solidarity.

This book was created as a result of research project no. 2019/33/B/HS5/02067, financed by the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pisarczyk, Lukasz

Surdykowska, Barbara

Grzebyk, Piotr

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Arbeits- und Sozialrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Mittel- und Osteuropa, Russland