Temporary Agency Work and Trade Unions in Comparative Perspective: A Mixed Blessing?

标题Temporary Agency Work and Trade Unions in Comparative Perspective: A Mixed Blessing?
出版物类型期刊文章
出版物年份2015
作者Doerflinger, Nadja, and Pulignano, Valeria
期刊SAGE Open
Volume5
Issue2
Date Published2015///
关键词Belgium, Germany, precarious work, temporary workers, vulnerable workers
Abstract

The article examines local union approaches toward temporary agency work in Belgium and Germany. Heterogeneous plant-level use of temporary work is explained by differences in collective bargaining, together with representation structures and rights for agency workers. Specifically, within a context providing effective rights for representation, the Belgian unions responded to firms’ economic difficulties by improving the working conditions of agency workers through negotiating plant-level agreements that contributed to fostering equality between agency workers and regular workers. In contrast, agency work became instrumental in safeguarding the core workforce’s employment in the German workplaces, where the representation rights were absent. As a result, the status of agency workers remained vulnerable.

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