Déconnexion au travail, de la soft law vers la hard law en Belgique

Greef, Vanessa De

doi:10.4000/rdctss.5605

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“…In that sense, the Higher Council for Prevention and Protection at Work, the intersectoral social body in the field of well-being at work, created a generic "guide" to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. According to the President of this Council, the guide aimed to address "all companies", including those that had not implemented any measures, often due to a lack of social consultation, and those that had conducted such consultations but implemented inadequate measures (De Greef, 2023). However, the interweaving of the guide with existing standards -which were sometimes more stringent -was not fully thought through and could lead to a less effective system in case of non-compliance.…”

Section: Collective Negotiation In Belgium and The Role Of Company-le...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social dialogue quality and workers’ health as perceived by Belgian trade union representatives during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wels

Hamarat

Greef

2023

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Background: Besides major employment disruptions, the COVID-19 pandemic has generated policy responses with specific mechanisms to protect workers' health. In Belgium, most of these policies were negotiated at national and cross-sectorial level but implemented at company level with company-based collective negotiation playing a key role. This study examines the relationship between trade union representatives' perception of social dialogue quality and change in workers' physical and mental health in such a context. Methods: Union representatives were surveyed throughout Belgium between August and December 2021 through an online questionnaire (N=469). We asked about the way they perceived workers' physical and mental health within their companies and explain variations with the self-perceived change in quality of social dialogue as an exposure. We use a modified Poisson regression for binary outcomes on four stratified models that additively account for no control, company characteristics, pre-pandemic self-reported health and COVID-19-related measures. Weights are generated to ensure sector representativeness. Results: 30.1% of the sample reported a worsening social dialogue quality during the pandemic. Relative Risks (RR) of poor physical and mental health when social dialogue has worsened are respectively 1.49 [95%CI:1.03; 2.15] and 1.38 [95%CI= 1.09;1.74] when controlling for company characteristics and pre-pandemic health. Adding pandemic-related measures reduces the risk of both poor mental [RR=1.25; 95%CI: 0.84; 1.87] and physical health [RR=1.18; 95%CI:0.94;1.49]. Conclusions: Although based on self-reported variables, the study shows an association between poor social dialogue quality and poor physical and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic that must be explored further in post-pandemic context.

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Section: Collective Negotiation In Belgium and The Role Of Company-le...mentioning

confidence: 99%