Report 68. Social protection of Civil servants in Europe

This report contains a very thorough review of state organisation, legislation relating to the civil service, the status of civil servants and the main social welfare regulations applicable to them in the European Union's 15 member-states, as well as in 6 CEECs (the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia): a unique set of data.

Report 69. New forms of employment and working time in the service economy (NESY)

Country case studies conducted in five service sectors

The purpose of this research was to investigate the driving forces behind the emergence and spread of new forms of employment and working time resulting from particular features of the service sector and service activities. Since NESY conducts its research in an international comparative perspective, the impact of country-specific features of labour and product markets on forms of employment and working time are subjected to analysis. The following branches have been studied: the IT sector, banking, retail trade, health care and home care.

Report 70. Social dialogue and the expanding world

The decade of tripartism in Hungary and in central and eastern Europe 1988-99

This report focuses on the Hungarian experience of national-level tripartite social dialogue - but also includes an overview of the whole central and eastern European region - as a key institution of political and economic transformation in the tremendously exciting but equally difficult years between 1988 and 2000.

Report 71. Changes in employment practice in the service sector

Findings from five sectors and ten countries

This is the condensed, yet highly informative, version of the main research findings that are set out in more detail in the full report - covering the five sectors in ten countries - already published by the ETUI in spring (Report 69)

Rapport 72. Le travail au seuil du 21ème siècle

Propositions pour un nouveau régime de travail

Dans le cadre d'une analyse critique des quatre piliers de l'organisation moderne des relations du travail (droits civils dans l'entreprise, le rapport hommes/femmes dans la vie professionnelle, les nouveaux modèles du temps de travail et la flexibilisation des formes d'emploi), les auteurs ébauchent les défis sociaux, politiques, économiques et juridiques que pose une nouvelle organi-sation du monde du travail. Ainsi sont-ils les premiers à dresser un inventaire aussi détaillé et systématique des besoins de nouvelle réglementation de la société du travail. Traduit de l'allemand.

Report 73. Survey on the implementation of the part-time work directive/agreement in the EU Member States and selected applicant countries

Part-time workers form a substantial proportion of the working population both in the member states of the European Union and in the applicant countries. The development of part-time work in recent years varies from one country to another. To promote part-time employment, while protecting the workers concerned from discrimination, in 1997 the European Social Partners concluded an agreement which was incorporated into a Council directive in the same year.

The ETUI decided to scrutinise the impact of this directive on member states' legislation. Its findings - different in a number of significant respects from the official Commission implementation report - were published in December 2002 in a new ETUI Report.

Report 75. The Community social acquis in labour law in the CEECs and beyond: fighting deregulation

EU accession is being used by the governments of the accession countries to deregulate labour law standards, thereby exacerbating the already significant gap between these countries and the European Social model.

Report 76. Legal analysis of the implementation of the fixed-term work directive

The Fixed-term work Directive is - following parental leave and part-time work - the third directive incorporating an EU social dialogue framework agreement. It aims not only to improve the quality of fixed-term work in a general framework geared to improved living and working conditions for workers in the European Union, but also to prevent the abuse of successive fixed-term contracts.

Report 78. Labour relations in South East Europe

A legal overview in 2003

An analytical overview of the legal frames that provide the basis for development of industrial relations and social dialogue in the region.

Report 79. The European Company and Company law and existing legislative provision for employee participation in the EU Member States

As from October 2004 companies will be able to set up a European Company (Societas Europea - SE). The legislation on the European Company does not only provide for obligatory information and consultation rights of workers but foresees the possible introduction of (board-level) participation as well.