New Paths In Working-Time Policies In Europe: The Difficult Challenge of Reconciling Employers' and Employees' Need for Flexibility

The Role of collective bargaining in the global economy: negotiating for social justice

“…Indeed, collective negotiation has been a primary site of innovation. As has been mentioned, the mechanism of individual-choice rights fi rst emerged in collective agreements in the Netherlands as part of a wider consensus between the social partners on the need for decentralized decision-making on working time (Fajertag 1999;Visser 2003).…”