The first part of the study compares the institutional settings of employee representation and collective bargaining in France and Germany. One important difference is that in France, many aspects of collective agreements are defined by labour law, whereas in Germany, collective bargaining...

The European Court of Justice examines the conformity of German co-determination under European law.Professor of law Bernard Johann Mulder, University of Oslo, argues that, in the case at issue, national law is not incompatible with EU law. Consequently, there is no discrimination on the grounds...

This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...

Am 4. Mai 2017 hat der Generalanwalt am Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union Saugmandsgaard Øe seine mit Spannung erwarteten Schlussanträge in der Rechtssache C-566/15 (Erzberger), auch als sog. TUI-Verfahren bekannt, vorgelegt. Die renommierten Rechtswissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Krause...