The impact of crisis and restructuring on employment relations in banking: The cases of France, Luxembourg and Romania

The impact of crisis and restructuring on employment relations in banking: The cases of France, Luxembourg and Romania

This article discusses the dynamics of collective bargaining in the management of restructuring, drawing on the example of the banking sector in France, Luxembourg and Romania. We show that the organized decentralization of the corporatist or statist models of France and Luxembourg helped sustain em...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:European journal of industrial relations Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 297 - 313
Main Authors: Kirov, Vassil N, Thill, Patrick
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01-09-2018
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Banking
Collective bargaining
Crises
Decentralization
Employment
Market forces
Mobility
Training
France
Luxembourg
Romania
Romania
bargaining
collective bargaining
decentralization
Luxembourg
Banking
trade unions
restructuring
France
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This article discusses the dynamics of collective bargaining in the management of restructuring, drawing on the example of the banking sector in France, Luxembourg and Romania. We show that the organized decentralization of the corporatist or statist models of France and Luxembourg helped sustain employment relations systems and cushion crisis effects. Bargaining outcomes included internal mobility and training. In Romania, by contrast, disorganized decentralization meant that solutions were left to the company level and to market forces.
ISSN:0959-6801
1461-7129
DOI:10.1177/0959680117752047