Université Lumière Lyon 2
Grand Amphithéâtre
18 quai Claude Bernard – 69007 Lyon
CERCRID (UMR 5137) – ASTREES
Project INLACRIS – Independent
Network for Labour Law and Crisis Studies
Program
Thursday, 15 September
9:00 – Coffee and Registration
9:30 – Official Opening and Welcome
Isabelle Von Bueltzingsloewen, University Lumière Lyon 2,
Mathieu Disant, Director of CERCRID, Sylvaine Laulom, IETL, Université Lumière
Lyon 2
Introduction: Christophe Teissier, ASTREES
10.00 – 11.30 – 1st session – The European and International
contexts: Which impact on national collective bargaining?
Chair: Raymond Maes, Deputy Head of Unit 'Social Dialogue' at
Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion DG, European Commission
10.00 – 10.25 – EU impacts on collective bargaining systems,
Isabelle Schömann, European Trade Union Institute
10.25 – 10.50 – Recent national reforms in collective
labour law : the influence of the European Social Charter, Régis
Brillat, Executive Secretary of the European Social Charter
11.00 – 11.30 –
Discussion
11.30
–12.30 – 2nd session – Which trends in the evolution of collective
bargaining in Europe? Chair Alexandru Athanasiu, University of Bucarest
11.30 – 11.50 – Analyzing the evolutions in
national situations: What does decentralization mean? – A comparative approach,
Sylvaine Laulom
11.50 – 12.05 — Discussant : Claude
Didry, IDHE, ENS Cachan
12.05-12.30 – General Discussion
12.30 – 14.00 – Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 – 2nd session (continued) – Which
trends in the evolution of collective bargaining in Europe?
Parallel workshop
sessions
Workshop 1 – Salle des
Colloques – Which expected place and role for sectoral
collective bargaining? Moderator Christian Welz, Eurofound
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The
revival of sectoral collective bargaining: the Portuguese experience, Teresa
Coelho Moreira, University of Minho
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The
importance of sectoral collective bargaining in Austria, Elizabeth Brameshuber,
University of Vienna
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The
need for sectoral collective bargaining in Poland, Slawomir Adamczyk,
Solidarnosc
Workshop 2 – Grand
Amphithéâtre – Which role for State intervention in
Collective bargaining? Moderator Tamás Guylavári, Pázmány Péter Catholic
University, Budapest
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How
to get collective bargaining decentralized? Legal incentives v. Compulsory
measures? Pierre-Emmanuel Berthier, University Lumière Lyon 2 and Olivier
Leclerc, CERCRID, University of Saint-Etienne
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Measures
to moderate wages : the belgian example, Fabienne Kéfer, University of Liège
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The
autonomy of collective agreements and the changing role of the state during the
crisis, Aristea Koukiadaki, University of Manchester
Workshop 3 – Salon
Lirondelle – Fostering the role of collective bargaining
in regulating employment relationships – Which actors? Moderator Felicia
Rosioru, University of Cluj Napoca, Babeş-Bolyai
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A
new law on trade unions in Poland, Barbara Surdikowska, Solidarnosc
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Negotiating
without trade unions: the French example, Sophie Béroud, University Lumière
Lyon 2, Triangle (UMR 5206)
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Atypical
Collective Bargaining and Bargaining for atypical workers, Filip Dorssemont,
Catholic University of Louvain
16.00 – 16.30 – Coffee break
16.30
– 18.00 – 2nd
Session (continued) – Which trends in the evolution of collective bargaining in
Europe?
Chair : Jeremias Prassl, University of
Oxford
16.30 – 17.15 – Feedback from the workshops
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Miriam Kullmann,
University of Maastricht and Eusebi Colàs, University Pompeu Favra (Workshop 1)
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Lilli Viviana Casano, ADAPT and University of
Bergamo and Erika Kovács, University of Vienna (Workshop 2)
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Judit Baseiria,
University of Girona and Rebecca Zahn,
University of Strathclyde (Workshop 3)
17.15 – 18.00 –
Discussion
Friday,
16 September
9.00 – 10.30 3rd session – Wage setting and
Working Time: still at the core of collective bargaining processes?
Parallel workshop
sessions
Workshop 1 –
Grand Amphithéâtre – Wage setting still at the core of collective bargaining, Moderator Claude-Emmanuel Triomphe
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The
Italian case, Piera Loi, University of Cagliari
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Decentralised
collective bargaining: a solution to economic crisis?, Kübra Dogan Yenisey,
University of Bilgi, and Berrin Ataman,
University of Ankara
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Decentralization
and wage moderation: the Spanish case, Jaime Cabeza Pereiro, University of Vigo
Workshop 2 – Salle des
Colloques – Negotiating Working Time in time of crisis, Moderator Franz Marhold, University
of Venna
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The
Polish case, Lukasz Pisarczyk, University of Warsow
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The
German case, N.N.
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Negotiating
working time in time of crisis: The ‘El Khomri Law’, Christophe Vigneau,
University Paris 1.
Workshop 3 – Salon Lirondelle – A case study Carrefour – A
study in red and blue : a comparison on the working conditions in Carrefour
according to collective bargaining in several countries, José Maria Miranda Boto, University
of Santiago de Compostela
10.30 – 11.00 – Coffee Break
11.00
– 12.30 – 4th session – New issues?
Chair: Yolanda Maneiro Vazquez,
University of Santiago de Compostela
11.00 – 11.20 – Challenges relating to older and
young employees – collectively bargained solutions – comparative perspectives,
Jenny Julen Votinius, University of Lund and Judith Brockmann, University of
Hamburg
11.20 – 11.35 – Discussant : Vicenzo Pietrogiovanni, University of Lund
11.35-11.55 – Work Life Balance in collective agreements in time of crisis: new
challenges and National Reactions, Barbara Kresal, University of
Llubljana
11.55-12.10 – Discussant: Ania Zbysdewska, University of Warwick
12.10 – 12.30 – General Discussion
12.30 – 14.00 – Lunch
14.00
– 16.00 – 5th session – Collective bargaining in the network
economy?
Présidence : Christophe Teissier,
ASTREES
14.00 – 14.40 – Multi-employer bargaining
14.00 – 14.25 – Multi employer situations,
Gabor Kartyas, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
14.25 – 14.40 – Discussant: Fausta Guarriello, University of Pescara
14.40 – 16.00 – Round Table – Uberization of employment and collective
bargaining, Moderator Auriane Lamine, CERCRID, University of Saint-Etienne
Jeremias Prassl, University of Oxford,
Valerio de Stefano, ILO, Christophe Degryse, ETUI, Samuel Engblom, TCO
16.00
– 16.30 – Conclusions,
Antonio Lo Faro, University of Catania
The
working languages of the conference will be English and French, with
simultaneous translation provided for all participants.
Presentation of the conference
Crises bring opportunities.
Because they reveal the limits of our institutional structures, and among them
of the legal ones, they offer prospects for change. In times of crisis, legal
scholars are entrusted with a task they have to fulfill hand in hand with
social actors: to measure if the law is still adequate to respond to the urgent
needs of today’s society and if necessary, to reform it.
Since the end of the 19th
century, collective bargaining systems have proven at the same time very able
to build protections and very flexible. The involvement of a collective actor,
representing workers’ interests and rights, in the norm-making process, has led
to the adoption of protective standards that could not have been granted to a
single employee. The first autonomous, then sometimes institutionalized,
collective bargaining process, thanks to its features, also revealed a powerful
tool to respond to social and economic evolutions. For these reasons, the right
to collectively bargain is praised by all as one of the pillars, along with the
freedom of association and the right to strike, of industrial democracy.
But collective bargaining systems
too are put under pressure in times of crisis. Can they still lead to the
adoption of protective laws when unionization rates are sinking, when the
competition between workers brought by globalization is forcing unions to
mitigate their demands, when the dominant neoliberal credo is considering every
norm (and thus every norm-making system) as a barrier to economic growth and
job creation, when the EU Commission is asking many countries to dismantle
their collective bargaining systems, when emerging “digital” and “collaborative”
forms of work are threatening the very power of workers to organize?
For more than a year, researchers
from 15 European countries, composing the INLACRIS network, have been gathering
to discuss these questions (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
Poland, Portugal, The Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey,
United-Kingdom). They have compared their national experiences to formulate a
diagnosis and sometimes to propose solutions to the challenges brought by the
2008 crisis and its follow-ups to collective bargaining systems. They took
inspiration from reported good practices. They focused on the features of
bargaining systems that made them vulnerable or resilient to crises; they
examined the role that national authorities have played in reshaping these
systems; they observed how the content of collective agreements had evolved as
a consequence of the crisis.
On the 15th and 16th
of September, the INLACRIS members will share their first findings with
academics, researchers, legal practitioners from Europe and actors involved in
collective bargaining practices. They will give the floor to experts from
international institutions and from the field, enriching these first findings
with their precious testimonies, with the view of completing a further common
publication.
