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Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 10-12 September 2018
Employment relations in the 21st century: Challenges for theory and research in
a changing world of work
CENTRE FOR SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH & INSTITUTE FOR LABOUR LAW
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 2018 10-12 September 2018, Leuven
Employment relations in the 21st century:
Challenges for theory and research in
a changing world of work
Scientific and Coordinating Board
Valeria Pulignano (CeSO, KU Leuven), Frank Hendrickx (KU Leuven), Richard Hyman (LSE),
Bernd Brandl (Durham University), Wim van Oorschot (CeSO, KU Leuven), Peter Kerckhofs
(Eurofound), Ton Wilthagen (Tilburg University), Sonja Bekker (Tilburg University), Petra Foubert
(Hasselt University), Evelyne Léonard (Université Catholique de Louvain), Monique Ramioul (HIVA,
KU Leuven), Nadja Doerflinger (CeSO, KU Leuven), Adrien Thomas (LISER and KU Leuven),
Valerio De Stefano (KU Leuven), Anneleen Forrier (KU Leuven), Filip Dorssemont (Université
Catholique de Louvain), Auriane Lamine (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Organizing Board
Valeria Pulignano (CeSO, KU Leuven), Frank Hendrickx (KU Leuven), Nadja Doerflinger (CeSO,
KU Leuven), Josephine Van Rymenant (KU Leuven), Dorien Frans (KU Leuven), Silvia Girardi
(LISER and KU Leuven), Martin Lukac (KU Leuven), Evelyne Léonard (Université Catholique de
Louvain), Adrien Thomas (LISER and KU Leuven), Jeff Turk (KU Leuven), Valerio De Stefano (KU
Leuven), Filip Dorssemont (Université Catholique de Louvain), Petra Foubert (Hasselt University),
Christophe Vanroelen (VUB), Stijn Baert (UGent)
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Venue
Keynotes & Sessions Address KU Leuven College De Valk Tiensestraat 41 3000, Leuven
Conference walking dinner
Address Irish College
Janseniusstraat 1 3000 Leuven
11 September 2018
18:30
Important: Attendance at the
conference dinner is
conditional upon prior
reservation and payment.
Wi-Fi connection
Your eduroam access is available at the premises of the university.
If you don’t have eduroam access, download the following program before coming to Leuven: http://cat.eduroam.org. Then contact organizers, who will give you credentials to connect.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Conference Program
10 September: Day 1
Welcome (12:00-13:30)
Registration & Lunch (12:00-13:15)
Law Faculty Building: Collegium Falconis (Building entrance)
(Left) Main entrance to the Faculty of Law; (Right) Conference venue – registration, sessions, coffee
(soup) and (salad) served at the registration desk
Welcome to Leuven and IREC (13:15-13:30), room Zeger Van Hee
Welcome by Luc Sels, Rector of KU Leuven
Plenary Session I (13:30-15:00)
“Why and how is work changing?”
Room Zeger Van Hee
Arne Kalleberg (North Carolina at Chapel Hill University)
Discussant: Monique Ramioul (HIVA, KU Leuven)
Anne Davies (Oxford University)
Discussant: Sonja Bekker (Tilburg University)
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Session 1 (15:00-16:30)
1A Transformations in contemporary labour markets
Room DV3 01.13
Chair: Valerio De Stefano
Rab & Zaccaria: New challenges, old solutions? New forms of employment and the traditional
concept of social protection.
Eichhorst, Marx & Tobsch: Non-standard employment in Germany: The role of labor market
institutions and structural change.
Bekker & Leschke: Fragmentation of employment relationships and its implications on labour
relations
Bazzani: "Social" sustainability of labour markets, first
1B Stream: A comparative overview of the transformation of public service employment relations in the
21st century: drivers of change and resilience
Room DV3 01.19
Chair: Whyeda Gill-McLure
Gill-McLure: The good employer in UK public services: myth, reality, necessity? Building
resilience in local government industrial relations
Hansen: Sector-level conflict in the public sector and the resulience of labour-management
relations
Mailand: Resilience and renewal in Danish public sector industrial relations - new public
management and beyond
Dorigatti, Mori & Neri: The socio-educational services in Italy between public, private and
hybrid solutions. Working conditions, models of labour regulation and trajectories of
transformation
1C European works councils and transnational workers’ participation
Room DV3 01.01
Chair: Peter Kerckhofs
Pulignano & Waddington: Articulation, communication and identity: the impact of financial
markets on the operation of European works councils
Aranea, González Begega & Köhler: The role of EWCs in management strategies: Divide and
conquer at ArcelorMittal
Dorssemont & Jagodzinski: Why has the review of European Works Council Directive (again)
not happened in due time, why is it necessary, and what are the prospects for the future?
Bulla: European and global works councils as new actors in transnational collective bargaining
Krause: Mandatory Transparency in Employee Matters – New Leverage for Effective
Transnational Worker Participation?
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
1D Representation of precarious workers
Room DV3 01.07
Chair: Nadja Doerflinger
Meardi, Simms & Adam: Representative claims: trade unions and precariat in Europe
Czarzasty: The challenges of interest representation for precarious workers: evidence from
Poland
Martiskova: New trade union strategies in the integrated periphery - leaving the low-road
model?
Badoi: Disguising precariousness through atypical forms of work in Romania since the
economic crisis
Ulloa: Not in my name: the torturous interactions between trade unions and precarious workers
in Spain's national postal operator, Correos
1E Trajectories of collective bargaining
Room DV3 01.25
Chair: Adrien Thomas
Papadopoulos: An employment model in transition
Bergamante & Marocco: New European economic governance and decentralisation of the
collective bargaining structrure in Italy: did it work out?
Vergis: A Brexit irony: the influence of the post 1980s UK market liberalism tradition on the
transformation of the Greek collective labour law system as part of EMU related 'conditionality'
Ceccon: Are collective agreements doing their job in increasing equality and promoting work-
life balance arrangements? And analysis from the Wageindicator database
Pavlopoulos & Tourtouri: The impact of the economic crisis on the Greek labour market: an
experts' view
1F Collective action, representation and related rights
Room DV3 01.31
Chair: Auriane Lamine
Hiessl: Industrial action in essential services - international comparison
Julio Medel: Reimagining workers collective resistances in contemporary Chile
Burgess: Lay labour court judges as industrial relations actors in Germany, Britain and France:
comparative and interdisciplinary approaches and empirical findings
Rainone: Transformation of labour protection in business restructuring: from CJEU to national
jurisprudence
Bray & Macneil: Reinventing a role for tribunals in collectivism?
Coffee break (16:30-17:00)
& served in the entrance hall
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Session 2 (17:00-18:30)
2A The decentralisation of collective bargaining
Room DV3 01.13
Chair: Herman Voogsgeerd
Voskeritsian, Kapotas, Kornelakis & Veliziotis: The dark side of decentralisation: institutional
change and unlawful labour practices in Greece
Carta: Plant collective agreement as autonomous legal tool in times of crisis: a comparison
among three European countries
Mattei: Invisible bonds: interconnections between company welfare, digitization and fidelization
from an empirical survey on decentralized bargaining
Centamore: With or without the state? The contested border province of legislation and
collective bargaining
Kahancová, Kostolný, Szüdi: Index of constructive industrial relations: an innovative way to
account for European diversity in sectoral attributes to collective bargaining
2B Trade unions and societal challenges
Room DV3 01.19
Chair: Jeff Turk
Thomas: Jobs before climate? Trade unions and the politics of emissions reduction
Clarke & Sahin-Dikmen: Trade union approaches to just transition: the example of low energy
contruction
De Spiegelaere & Van Gyes: The non-advent of economic democracy in Belgium: a focus on
the Christian trade union
Doerflinger, Bosschaert, Otto, Opgenhaffen & Vermeerbergen: Between moral and markets?
Developing an interdisciplinary conceptual framework for studying the working conditions in
Catholic social service providers
2C The status of non-standard workers
Room DV3 01.01
Chair: Frank Hendrickx
Gaudio: The fragmentation of the binary relationship between the employer and the employee
Nadas & Sipka: Non-standard workers: New type of contact?
Aloisi & Gramano: Non-standard workers and collective rights
Rossetti, van Berkel & Knies: Solo self-employed and the fulfillment of their needs in Europe
Zekic: Rising inequality and non-standard work
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
2D Employment relations in the public sector
Room DV3 01.07
Chair: Petra Foubert
Amsing: The governance of good work for all teachers in primary education: comparing
employment relations in the Netherlands and Ontario, Canada
Anagnostopoulos & Vlachos: The dual labour market in Greece: comparisons of employee
engagement in private-public organisations
Hopkins, Kahancová, Mailand & Stiller: New actors and new strategies after NPM reforms:
coping with a trust crisis in collective bargaining across nine EU member states
Sedlakova, Martiskova, Ramos Martin, Godino & Pedaci: The public sector after the crisis: a
limited impact or revitalization of social dialogue and bargaining in primary education?
Rodgers: Conflict and consensus in the application of public and private international law rules
to the employment relationship
2E Activation policies and social protection of workers
Room DV3 01.25
Chair: Sonja Bekker
Paliotta & Resce: Sustainable labor markets: social welfare and protection, working conditions,
job quality and work-life balance
Frans & Pulignano: Occupational welfare dynamics and labour market segmentation: A
comparative company-level case study within manufacturing in Belgium.
Girardi, Pulignano & Maas: Activation as the opportunity to be outsiders? Social assistance
beneficiaries engaged in public work
Dijkstra & Wesseling: Evaluating the effectiveness of activation programs for the youth: a
systematic review
2F Theoretical approaches to contemporary employment research
Room DV3 01.31
Chair: Bernd Brandl
Purcell: Reconceptualising hegemony and despotism in the contemporary labour process
Kerckhofs & Verhoeven: Sociology and representativeness
Dieuaide: What use of comparison to the era of globalization? Lessons from a case study
Welcome reception (18:30-20:00)
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic & served in the entrance hall
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
11 September: Day 2
Plenary Session II (9:00-10:30)
“How do collective actors deal with the changing world of work?”
Room Zeger Van Hee
Adriana Topo (Padova University)
Discussant: Auriane Lamine (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Roland Erne (University College Dublin)
Discussant: Peter Kerckhofs (Eurofound)
Session 3 (11:00-12:30)
3A The digital transformation
Room DV3 01.13
Chair: Valerio De Stefano
Joyce: Conceptualising the transformation of employment relations: insights from the platform
economy
Mangan: Fordism, Taylorism and the gig: workplace philosophies in transition
Bednarowicz: Erring on the side of caution? Approaching work in the gig economy from a
European perspective
3B Theoretical approaches to employment relations research
Room DV3 01.19
Chair: Valeria Pulignano
Brandl: Would-be worlds: micro and macro scenarios of European industrial relations
Marginson: Northern European collective wage-setting under strain: contrasting sector and
country responses
Budd: Power and interests in interorganizational relationships: employment relations and labor
standards implications of a broadened conceptual framework
Bologna: Southern-European industrial relations in times of crisis: decentralisation,
Europeanisation, Americanisation
3C Trade unions, new strategies and collective action
Room DV3 01.01
Chair: Manuela Galetto
Heery: Can the old and the new mix? Trade unions and the voluntary Living Wage in the
United Kingdom
Vandaele: Are new members a potential source of change in trade unions? Survey evidence
from a Belgian union
Railton: Young people, trade unions and social movements
Alves: Call centres, precarious workers, trade unions and collective action
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
3D Labour standards and transnational agreements in Europe
Room DV3 01.07
Chair: Herman Voogsgeerd
Vatta: Labour standards and EU trade agreements
da Costa: Transnational Company Agreements: recent trends and dynamics
Iossa: Letter-box companies' and the 'principle of territoriality' in labour law: Cross-border
challenges to labour and employment in the EU internal market
Laronze & Rocca: Labour law and the quest for social performance indicators
3E Challenges for trade unions and employment relations in Europe
Room DV3 01.25
Chair: Adrien Thomas
Gumbrell-McCormick: European trade unions and Brexit
Hofmann & Schindler: Between class and nation: The challenge of far-right political
orientations among workers for the future of trade unions
Ajzen: New ways of working and power issues: how does telework transform employment
relations?
Horodnic & Williams: Evaluating the association between the prevalence of undeclared work
and level of horizontal and vertical trust in Southeast Europe
3F Social divisions in the European workforce
Room DV3 01.31
Chair: Anneleen Forrier
Mattijssen, Pavlopoulos & Smits: The impact of occupations on the non-standard employment
career
Lukac, Doerflinger & Pulignano: Developing a cross-national comparative framework for
studying labour market segmentation: Measurement equivalence with latent class analysis
Berton, Carreri, Devicienti & Ricci: Collective bargaining and skill formation: evidence from
mixed methods
Lunch break (12:30-14:00)
(soup) and (salad) served in the entrance hall
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Session 4 (14:00-15:30)
4A Stream: Part I –– The EU’s new economic governance regime and labour politics (convenor: R.
Erne)
Room DV3 01.13
Chair: Ludwig Zurbriggen
Jordan: NEG and labour politics: EU-level perspectives
Maccarrone: NEG and labour politics: Irish perspectives
Erne: From horizontal to vertical EU integration. Opportunities and threats for organised labour
4B Digitalization and the creative industries
Room DV3 01.19
Chair: Valeria Pulignano
Zeng: Individual strategies to live and thrive on freelance work
Bellini, Burroni, Dorigatti, Gherardini & Manzo: Strategic but vulnerable: challenges and
opportunities for Italian industrial relations, arising from creative industries
Been, Manzo & Keune: Industrial relations and worker representation in the creative sector in
the Netherlands: A new world of work or vulnerable workers?
Chesalina: Transformation of work and labour relations without transformation of labour law:
current problems in Russia
4C Transformations in the role of employers and employer associations
Room DV3 01.01
Chair: Peter Kerckhofs
Navrbjerg, Ibsen, Hauptmeier & Gooberman: Voluntarism and employers' organisations:
comparing Denmark and the United Kingdom
Aranea, Gooberman & Hauptmeier: Opening the black box of European employers'
organisations
Alsos, Nergaard & Oldervoll: Industrial actions - shifting employer strategies
4D Gender equality, representation and employment
Room DV3 01.07
Chair: Marco Rocca
Bekker & Ghailani: Gender equality and employment: EU instruments to support equality on
the labour market
Rego: Gender representation on the board of employers' associations
Lemeire & Zanoni: Gender equality in Belgian inter-sectoral agreements between 1986 and
2017: assessing the equality performance of collective bargaining in a coordinated system of
industrial relations
Hermans & van Herreweghe: Evolution and determinants of gender differences in the
recruitment of employee representatives
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
4E Transformations in professional work
Room DV3 01.25
Chair: Monique Ramioul
J. Hyman: The lost voices of professional workers
Samaluk: Entering professional jobs: a Sisyphean task?
Doucet: Foreign trained professionals, recognition of qualifications, and public safety: What
Canadian human rights law has to teach?
4F Employment relations and value chains
Room DV3 01.31
Chair: Guglielmo Meardi
Theunissen, Van Laer & Zanoni: Fragmented employment relations and social identities:
exploring the constitution of the pecking order in a changing world of work
Perez de Guzman & Martinez: Trade unions' conflict and negotiation strategies in the current
context of postal sector liberalization. A comparative analysis: the cases of Belgium and Spain
Amba & Pulignano: Outsourcing practices and trade union strategies in the logistics sector in
Italy
Coffee break (15:30-16:00)
& served in the entrance hall
Session 5 (16:00-17:30)
5A Stream: Part II –– The EU’s new economic governance regime and labour politics (convenor: R.
Erne)
Room DV3 01.13
Chair: Ludwig Zurbriggen
Stan: NEG and labour politics in the health care sector
Szabo: NEG and labour politics in the water sector
Golden: NEG and labour politics in the public transport sector
5B The rights of migrants and posted workers
Room DV3 01.19
Chair: Sonja Bekker
Tibajev: Employment relations and wages for immigrants
Matuszczyk: More security or flexibility?
De Wispelaere: Intra-EU posting and the threat of social dumping: a comprehensive evaluation
Rocca: Not dead yet. Legal strategies at the national level and the reform of the EU Posting of
Workers Directive
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
5C The challenges of digitalisation for trade unions
Room DV3 01.01
Chair: Valerio De Stefano
Vergis: Not staying idle in the moving train of the gig economy: redefining the employment
relationship or reinventing collective organisation?
Tassinari & Maccarrone: Varieties of unionism meet the platform economy: a comparison of
gig workers' organizing practices and trade union responses in Italy and the UK
Alves: Digital democracy? No, infocracy! The uses of social media by the Portugese unions in
the health sector
Gasparri & Tassinari: ‘Smart' industrial relations in the making? Insights from the analysis of
union responses to digitalisation in Italy and Spain
5D Job quality, well-being and satisfaction at work
Room DV3 01.07
Chair: Monique Ramioul
Marczak & Tierney: What is the nature of the association between the use of new forms of
technology and employee well-being?
Tisch: Old approaches to new phenomena - Implications of the changing world of work on
safety and health through the lenses of classical labour science theory
Saloniemi: Do unsatisfying workplace practices drive to quit?
Befort, Borelli & Budd: Using efficiency, equity, and voice for defining job quality and legal
regulation for achieving it
5E Transnational worker representation and participation
Room DV3 01.25
Chair: Paul Marginson
Larsson: Transnational trade union co-operation networks on sectoral level in Europe
Haipeter & Rosenbohm: Transnational representation of workers' interests in MNC and the
problem of articulation
Aranea, Lafuente Hernández & Rosenbohm: Board-level employee representation in European
Companies (SEs): new prospects for transnational labour voice?
5F Changing employment relations in Central and Eastern European countries
Room DV3 01.31
Chair: Jeff Turk
Skorupinska-Cieslak: Models of works councils in Polish companies
Surdykowska & Adamczyk: The 'company-based' model of the trade union movement in
Central Europe and the consequences of its expected collapse
Kalanta: Failure of social dialogue in Eastern Europe: the case of Lithuania in perspective of
comparative political economy
Adascalitei & Kirov: Remaking industrial relations: Deregulation and labour market reforms in
Romania and Bulgaria
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Panel discussion (16:00-17:30)
The future of social dialogue in Belgium and the Netherlands
Room Raadszaal
Panel introduction:
Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven), Frank Hendrickx (KU Leuven) and Marc van der Meer
(UTilburg)
Presentation:
Industrial relations systems in the low countries: characteristics and challenges by Maarten
Keune (UvA) and Evelyne Leonard (UCL)
Panelists:
Marc Leemans, President ACV/CSC (Christian Trade Union - Belgium)
Paul Soete, Consultant IR, President Management Committee National Social Security Office,
Representative of the Belgian employers in the European Economic and Social Committee
Paul Windey, President National Labour Council (Belgium)
Erik Pentinga, Trade Union Official (TAW and FLEX) at FNV (the Netherlands)
Laurens Harteveld, Senior Advisor AWVN (the Netherlands)
Conference walking dinner (18:30-23:00)
At the Irish College (Janseniusstraat 1) for registered participants; organizers will walk the
participants from College De Valk to the Irish College at 18:15. Please be on time!
12 September: Day 3
Session 6 (9:00-10:30)
6A Roundtable: Conciliation and mediation in collective labor conflicts: a cross-cultural approach to
prevention and intervention
Room DV3 01.13
In this session, the highly different regulations and practices in conciliation and mediation in
collective labor conflicts around the world will be explored. This is a preview of a new publication
presenting studies on 17 countries, including China, India, USA and 12 European countries. First
Martin Euwema will present two models for third party intervention, and global practices and
trends. Second, Mark Bray and Johanna Macneil, will present the case of conciliation and
mediation in collective labor conflicts in Australia. Through a round table we explore the
challenges for both academics, policy makers and practice.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
6B The dynamics of European social dialogue
Room DV3 01.19
Chair: Paul Marginson
Broughton, Voss, Pulignano & Franca: Articulation of the European social dialogue: main
issues and challenges
Lindner: The breakdown and reestablishment of European social dialogue
Galetto, Larsson, Weber, Bechter & Prosser: European sectoral social dialogue: insights into
the experiences of Germany, Italy and Sweden: so far away, so close?
Bechter, Prosser, Galetto, Larsson & Weber: What are the conditions that influence European
sectoral social dialogue?
6C Variations in wages and wage-setting in Europe
Room DV3 01.01
Chair: Bernd Brandl
Garcia Hernandez: Are wage developments and wage inequality affected by collective
bargaining reforms?
Lehr: Understanding reference point formation for income comparisons. A theoretical model
and empirical tests using a survey of employed persons in the Netherlands
Kauhanen, Nätti & Ojala: The impact of temporary work on subsequent earnings in the long-
run
Scott: Variation of intra-UK regulation of agricultural wages in the UK: institutional change, and
evidence of the impact of abolishing the Agricultural Wages Board in England
6D Justice, fairness and equality at work
Room DV3 01.07
Chair: Frank Hendrickx
Foster & Masso: Re-imagining work around the life-course: the role of work accommodation,
job-design and industrial relations in promoting equality and fairness in the workplace
Klamer: Towards a conceptualization of workplace dignity
Bell: Workers on the margins: people with intellectual disabilities and labour law
Vanhegen: Work incapacity: the role of UN disability law in the case law of the European Court
of Justice. Are there any limits?
Manevska: Whose voices get suprressed and why? Studying barriers to employee voice in the
Netherlands
6E Challenges and new strategies at the workplace-level
Room DV3 01.25
Chair: Valeria Pulignano
Hermans: A strategy in search of partners: trade union engagement in 'workplace innovation'
Jégou: Assessing the democratic quality of participative management: insights from 'liberated'
firms
Signoretti: Lean production outcomes for workers in large and small firms: the missing union
action
Snook & Whittall: The contest for workplace employee representation: still seeking answers?
Hann: The role of HRM and trade unions in the resolution of workplace conflict in the UK
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
6F European economic governance and industrial relations
Room DV3 01.31
Chair: Jeff Turk
Tassinari: Resilient political exchange? Tripartite interest intermediation in the Eurozone
periphery after the great recession
Larsen & de Paz Campos Lima: The financial pillars of European Industrial Relations -
Important means of action?
Voogsgeerd: Partial harmonization, minimum harmonization, full harmonization and
coordination of EU labour law. What's in a name?
Zurbriggen: Governance by numbers: comprehending the EU's new Governance Regime and
its (intended) de- and (unintended) re-politicization effects
Plenary Session III (11:00-12:30)
“Looking forward—the future of work”
Room Zeger Van Hee
Richard Hyman (London School of Economics)
Discussant: Bernd Brandl (Durham University)
Manfred Weiss (Frankfurt University)
Discussant: Petra Foubert (Hasselt University)
Lunch break (12:30-14:00)
(soup) and (salad) served in the entrance hall
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The future of social dialogue in Belgium and
the Netherlands
Panel Discussion
Venue: Raadzaal
Time: 11 September, 16:00-17:30
Looking back to the crisis
Taking up responsibility
Europe Future
Panel introduction: Valeria Pulignano
(KU Leuven)
Frank Hendrickx (KU Leuven)
Marc van der Meer (UTilburg)
Presentation: Maarten Keune (UvA) & Evelyne Leonard (UCL)
Industrial relations systems in the low
countries: characteristics and challenges
Panelists: Marc Leemans (President ACV/CSC, Christian Trade Union - Belgium)
Paul Soete (Consultant IR, President Management Committee National
Social Security Office, Representative of the Belgian
employers in the European Economic and Social
Committee)
Paul Windey (President National Labour Council, Belgium)
Erik Pentinga (Trade Union Official (TAW and FLEX), FNV (the
Netherlands)
Laurens Harteveld (Senior Advisor AWVN, the Netherlands)
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Keynote Speakers
Arne L. Kalleberg is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published
extensively on topics related to the sociology of work, organizations,
occupations and industries, labor markets, and social stratification.
He is the author of Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and
Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s–2000s
(Russell Sage Foundation 2013) and, more recently, Precarious
Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies (Polity
Press, 2018). Other current projects include studies of the processes
of mobility out of low-wage jobs in the United States and the politics
of precarious work in Indonesia, Japan, and Korea. He served as
the President of the American Sociological Association in 2007-8 and
is currently the editor of Social Forces, an International Journal of
Social Research.
Professor Anne Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy in the
Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, where she is currently also
Dean of the Faculty. Her research is in public law (with a particular
interest in government contracts and public services) and
labour/employment law. Her interests in the labour law field are wide-
ranging, encompassing international, European and domestic law,
though her most recent work has focused in particular on issues
relating to casual work and working time. Her books (published as
A.C.L. Davies) include Perspectives on Labour Law, published by
Cambridge University Press in the Law in Context series in 2004, with
a second edition in 2009, EU Labour Law, published by Elgar in 2012,
and Employment Law, published by Pearson in 2015.
Adriana Topo is Full Professor of Employment and Labour Law at
the University of Padova. With Prof. Gianguido Balandi she founded
the Summer School in International Labour Law of the University of
Ferrara in partnership with the University of Padova. She is member
of the Editorial Board of the journals “Rivista italiana di Diritto del
Lavoro”, “Lavoro e Diritto”, and “Variazioni su Temi di Diritto del
lavoro”. In 2017 prof. Topo was Fellow at the IALS London. Prof.
Adriana Topo is the President of the Guarantee Committee of the
University of Padova the board in charge of promoting positive
actions and monitoring discriminations against University’s
employees and students. She is also member of the Board of
Directors of Fondazione Cariparo, a charity trust managing 2bn
Euros assets and member of the Bar Association of Padova.
Photo credit: Piranha Photography
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Professor Roland Erne is Jean Monnet Chair of European
Integration and Employment Relations at University College
Dublin (UCD). He has been teaching international and
comparative employment relations at UCD since 2003. He is also
an adjunct professor at the ILR School, Cornell University and has
been a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo
(2013-14), visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de
Cachan (2012) as well as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for
the Study of Social Justice, University of Oxford (2008). In 2017,
Erne has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC)
Consolidator Grant for a research project entitled Labour Politics
and the EU's New Economic Governance Regime (European
Unions), which aims to explore the challenges and possibilities
that the EU's new governance regime poses to labour movements
and the methodological nationalism in the field.
Richard Hyman is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the
London School of Economics and founding editor of the European
Journal of Industrial Relations. He also founded and coordinates the
annual Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC). He has
written extensively on the themes of industrial relations, trade
unionism, industrial conflict and labour market policy, and is author of
a dozen books as well as some two hundred journal articles and book
chapters. His comparative study Understanding European Trade
Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society (Sage, 2001) is widely
cited by scholars working in this field. His book, Trade Unions in
Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices (with Rebecca Gumbrell-
McCormick), was published by Oxford University Press in October
2013 with a second edition in June 2018. A key theme of his current
research addresses resistance to neoliberalism and austerity.
Manfred Weiss is Emeritus Professor of labour law and civil law at
the Goethe University in Frankfurt since October 2008. He was full
professor since 1974, first at the University of Hamburg and then at
the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and visiting Professor at many
universities all over the world. He was appointed President of the
International Labour and Employment Research Association (ILERA)
(2000–2003), President of its German Branch (GIRA) (1990–1995)
and Deputy President of German Lawyers' Association (DJT) (1998–
2002). He has been for many years Consultant to the International
Labour Organisation and to the Commission of the EU. He has an
extensive record of publications regarding German, European,
International and Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations.
He received Honorary Doctorates in Budapest (2005), Lima (2006),
Bordeaux (2011), Northwest University (NWU) / South Africa (2015)
and he received the Award of the Labour Law Research Network
(LLRN) for outstanding contribution to Labour Law in 2015.
Adamczyk Slawomir, National Commission of NSZZ Solidarnosc
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
List of participants
Adamczyk Slawomir, National Commission of NSZZ
Solidarnosc
Adascalitei Dragos, Lecturer Sheffield University
Management School
Ajzen Michel, Teaching and Research Assistant
UCL
Aloisi Antonio, PhD Researcher UniBocconi and
European University Institute
Alsos Kristin, Fafo
Alves Paulo, Assistant Professor ISCTE
Ambra Maria Concetta, Researcher University of
Rome Sapienza
Amsing Mariette, PhD Candidate Tilburg Law School
Anagnostopoulos Achilleas, University of Applied
Sciences TEI of Thessaly
Aranea Mona, Postdoctoral Researcher Cardiff
Business School
Badoi Delia, Researcher Research Institute for
Quality of Life Romanian Academy of Science
Bazzani Tania, Researcher Humboldt University and
Pompeu Fabra University
Bechter Barbara, Durham University Business
School
Bednarowicz Bartlomiej, PhD Researcher University
of Antwerp
Been Wike, Researcher University of Amsterdam
Bekker Sonja, Associate professor Tilburg University
Bellini Andrea, Research Fellow University of
Florence
Bell Mark, Professor Trinity College Dublin
Bergamante Francesca, Researcher INAPP
Berton Fabio, University of Torino Department of
Economics and Statistics
Bologna Silvio, Researcher in Labour Law University
of Palermo
Bottero Matteo, PhD Fellow University of
Copenhagen
Brandl Bernd, Durham University Business School
Bray Mark, Professor of Employment Studies
Newcastle Business School, University of
Newcastle, Australia
Broughton Andrea, Associate Director Ecorys UK
Budd John, Professor University of Minnesota
Bulla Martin, Assistant Professor Trnava University
Faculty of Law
Burgess Pete, Research Fellow University of
Greenwich
Carta Cinzia, University of Bologna
Ceccon Daniela, Wage Indicator Foundation
Centamore Giulio, postdoctoral researcher
University of Bologna
Chesalina Olga, Senior Researcher Max Planck
Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Clarke Linda, Professor University of Westminster
Czarzasty Jan, Warsaw School of Economics
da Costa Isabel, Senior researcher CNRS IDHES
ENS Paris Saclay
Davies Anne, Oxford University Faculty of Law
De Spiegelaere Stan, Researcher ETUI
De Stefano Valerio, Professor Institute for Labour
Law KU Leuven
De Vita Luisa, Sapienza University of Rome
De Wispelaere Frederic, Onderzoeksexpert HIVA
KU Leuven
Dieuaide Patrick, Associate Professeur University of
Sorbonne Nouvelle
Dijkstra Geerte, Senior lecturer Social Work Hanze
University Groningen
Doerflinger Nadja, Postdoc at the Centre for
Sociological Resarch, KU Leuven
Dorigatti Lisa, University of Milan
Doucet Frederick, PhD Student Université de
Montreal
Dowling Martin, Senior Teaching Fellow University
of St Andrews
Durri Ilda, PhD student KU Leuven
Eichhorst Werner, Coordinator of Labor Market and
Social Policy in Europe Institute of Labor
Economics
Erne Roland, Quinn School of Business UCD
Euwema Martin, KU Leuven
Forrier Anneleen, KU Leuven
Foster Debbie, Cardiff University
Foubert Petra, University Hasselt
Franke Milena, PhD Student KU Leuven
Frans Dorien, PhD Student KU Leuven
Galanti Costanza, University College Dublin
Galetto Manuela, Assistant Professor University of
Warwick
Garcia Hernandez Rosa, Autonomous University of
Barcelona
Gaudio Giovanni, PhD Student Universita
Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
Gill McLure Whyeda, Senior Lecturer University of
Wolverhampton
Girardi Silvia, Phd Fellow LISER and KU Leuven
Golden Darragh, Postdoctoral fellow University
College Dublin
GumbrellMcCormick Rebecca, Birkbeck University
of London
Hann Deborah, Cardiff University
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Hansen Nana Wesley, Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
Harteveld Laurens, Senior Advisor AWVN
Hauptmeier Marco, Cardiff University
Heery Edmund, Professor of Employment Relations
Cardiff Business School
Hendrickx Frank, Professor, Institute for Labour
Law, KU Leuven
Hermans Maarten, senior research associate HIVA
KU Leuven
Hiessl Christina, Scientific Collaborator Trier
University
Hofmann Julia, Chamber of Labour Vienna
Horodnic Ioana Alexandra, Marie Curie Research
Fellow The University of Sheffield
Hrubcova Lenka, Labor Management Leader EE
Toyota Tsusho Europe SA Czech Republic
Branch
Hyman Jeffrey, Emeritus professor University of St
Andrews
Hyman Richard, LSE
Iossa Andrea, Lund University
Jagodzinski Romuald, Senior Researcher European
Trade Union Institute
Jandova Darina
Janssen Joern, European Institute for Construction
Labour Research
Jegou Olivier, Teaching Assistant Université
Catholique de Louvain
Jiar Rim, HR Specialist Toyota Tsusho Europe SA
Jordan Jamie, University College Dublin
Julio Medel Gabriela, PhD Student University of
Bristol
Kalanta Marius, Vytautas Magnus University
Kalleberg Arne, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Kauhanen Merja, Labour Institute for Economic
Research
Kerckhofs Peter, Research Officer Eurofound
Keune Maarten, Professor UvA
Klamer Renze, PhD Fellow Aarhus University
Kostolny Jakub, CELSI
Krause Ruediger, Professor Georg August
University Göttingen
Laehteenmaeki Liisa, Postdoc fellow University of
Turku
Lafuente Hernandez Sara, Researcher ETUI
Lamine Auriane, Université Catholique de Louvain
Laronze Fleur, Maître de conférences HDR en Droit
Université de Strasbourg
Larsen Trine Pernille, Associate Professor FAOS
University of Copenhagen
Larsson Bengt, Dept of sociology University of
Gothenburg
Leemans Marc, President ACV/CSC
Lehr Alex, Assistant Professor Radboud University
Lemeire Veronika, Phd student Hasselt University
Lenaerts Karolien, Research manager HIVA KU
Leuven
Leonard Evelyne, Professor UCL
Lindner Vincent, University of Göttingen
Lucciarini Silvia, Researcher Sapienza Rome
University
Lukac Martin, PhD Student, KU Leuven
Maccarrone Vincenzo, PhD student UCD
Macneil Johanna, Professor of Employment
Relations The University of Newcastle
Marczak Magda, Coventry University Lecturer in
Clinical Psychology
Mailand Mikkel, FAOS University of Copenhagen
Manevska Katerina, Institute for Management
Research Radboud University
Mangan David, City University of London
Marginson Paul, University of Warwick
Martiskova Monika, Researcher Charles University
Marocco Manuel, Researcher INAPP
Martens Albert, Professor KU Leuven
Martinez Esteban, professeur ULB
Mattei Alberto, University of Verona
Mattijssen Lucille, PhD Student Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
Matuszczyk Kamil, University of Warsaw
Meardi Guglielmo, University of Warwick
Meylemans Lise, Researcher HIVA KU Leuven
Mori Anna, Postdoc researcher University of Milan
Nadas Gyorgy, associate professor Debreceni
Egyetem
Nash David, Cardiff University
Naughton Mary, University College Dublin
Navrbjerg Steen, Associate Professor FAOS
University of Copenhagen
Nergaard Kristine, Fafo
Papadopoulos Orestis, Keele University
Pavlopoulos Dimitris, Assistant Professor Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam
Pentinga Eric, FNV
Perez de Guzman Sofia, Universidad de Cadiz
Pulignano Valeria, Professor at the Centre for
Sociological Research, KU Leuven
Purcell Christina, Lecturer Manchester Metropolitan
University Business School
Rab Henriett, Associate Professor University of
Debrecen
Railton Annie, Speaker MA student Ruskin College
Oxford
Rainone Silvia, PhD Candidate Tilburg University
Ramioul Monique, Head of Work Organisation and
Social Dialogue Research Group, HIVA KU
Leuven
Rego Raquel, Research fellow Instituto de Ciencias
Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE | LEUVEN, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2018
Resce Massimo, Researcher INAPP Public Policy
Innovation
Rocca Marco, Postdoctoral researcher Hasselt
University
Rodgers Lisa, University of Leicester
Rosenbohm Sophie, University of Duisburg Essen
Rossetti Silvia, Postdoctoral researcher Utrecht
University School of Governance
Sahin Dikmen Melahat, Research Fellow University
of Westminster
Samaluk Barbara, Research Fellow University of
Greenwich
Saloniemi Antti, Professor Univeristy of Tampere
Schindler Saskja, University of Vienna
Scott Peter, Senior Lecturer University of
Portsmouth
Sedlakova Maria, Researcher Central European
Labour Studies Institute
Signoretti Andrea, Department of Sociology and
Social Research
Sipka Peter, Assistant Professor University of
Debrecen
Skorupinska Cieslak Katarzyna, University of Lodz
Department of Institutional Economics
Snook Jereme, Sheffield Hallam University
Soete Paul, Consultant IR, President Management
Committee National Social Security Office,
Representative of the Belgian employers in the
European Economic and Social Committee
Stan Sabina, Lecturer in Sociology and
Anthropology Dublin City University
Stiller Sabina, Researcher AIAS University of
Amsterdam
Stylogiannis Charalampos, PhD Student KU Leuven
Surdykowska Barbara, National Commission of
NSZZ Solidarnosc
Szabo Imre, Post doctoral researcher University
College Dublin
Taes Simon, PhD researcher Institute for Labour
Law
Tassinari Arianna, PhD student University of
Warwick
Theunissen Anne, UHasselt
Thomas Adrien, LISER & KU Leuven
Tibajev Andrey, Linkoping University
Tisch Anita, Head of Research Department
Changing World of Work Federal Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
Topo Adriana, Professor of Law University of
Padova
Turk Jeff, KU Leuven
Ulloa Ester, Professor University of Cadiz
Van Berlo Marinus Johannes, Tilburg University
Vandaele Kurt, ETUI
van der Meer Marc, Professor University of Tilburg
Van Laer Koen, Hasselt University
Vatta Alessia, Assistant Professor University of
Trieste
Vereycken Yennef, Researcher HIVA KU Leuven
Vergis Fotis, Lecturer in Law The University of
Manchester School of Law
Voogsgeerd Herman, University of Groningen
Voskeritsian Horen, Birkbeck College
Weber Sabrina, Pforzheim University
Weiss Manfred, Professor emeritus Goethe
University Frankfurt Germany
Windey Paul, President National Labour Council
Zaccaria Marton Leo, senior lecturer Debreceni
Egyetem
Zekic Nuna, Assistant professor Tilburg University
Zeng Yiluyi, University of Warwick
Zondi Nqobile, University of KwaZulu Natal
Zurbriggen Ludwig, Senior Lecturer Lucerne
University of Applied Sciences
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