Harmonizing European working time in an enlarged EU: A case of failed 'humanization'?

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The European Union's (EU) 1993 Working Time Directive was an attempt to end the regulation of working hours at the national level and usher in a new era of European working time organization. An examination of the directive's implementation in the different labor markets of the EU reveals that the aim of humanizing EU social policy by ending the practice of long working hours that were considered detrimental to workers' health and safety is yet to be achieved.

Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Work Schedules, Work hours, Quality of work life, Hours of labour

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'Missing in Action': The right to strike in the Baltic new member states - an absent EU competence

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The balance of power between labor and capital in the European Union (EU) appears somewhat skewed, as in spite of its declared endorsement of the fundamental right to withdraw labor, the EU lacks legislative competence in this area. The fall out of this lack of legislative competence in the post-Communist new EU Member States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is explored.

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Collective Bargaining, Right to strike

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De-skilled and devalued: the labour market experience of Polish migrants in the UK following EU enlargement

Article Abstract:

The experiences of European Union (EU8) migrant workers in the United Kingdom, after the EU enlargement, are discussed.

United Kingdom, Government domestic functions, Poland, International politics, International aspects, European Union, Migrant labor, Brain drain, Domestic policy, Foreign policy, Migrant labour

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