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Democracy and Citizenship at Work: The Legal Institutions of Workplace Representation and Conflict in Europe 6-7 MAY 2019 | SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT | LUND UNIVERSITY

Symposium

Democracy and Citizenship at Work: The Legal Institutions of Workplace Representation and Conflict in Europe

The enterprise is inherently an institu-tion of power or, as put by Otto Kahn-Freund, an ‘absolute monarchy’ that can be democratised only if workers take part in the mechanisms and procedures for setting employment standards and taking decisions at workplace. The workplace level hence becomes the touchstone to evaluate the degree of democratisation ensured by the different models characterising the European scenario. The exercise of workers’ representation, also supported by the possible resort to collective actions, shall be observed from the workplace in first place, as to assess the enjoyment of democratic rights within an intrinsically non-democratic socio-economic entity such as the company.

The workplace level of labour relations increases its relevance due to the trend of decentralisation of collective bar-gaining undertaken by several countries in Europe. However, in the last decade - especially since austerity measures undertaken after the financial crisis of

2007-2008 - many national reforms of labour law and industrial relations have deeply disrupted the legal machinery of workers’ voice within the company. Nevertheless, workplace representation and conflict constitute established legal institutions in the labour law systems of European countries. Yet their full recognition under the scope of EU law is still unclear, whereas clear – but disputed – is the impact of EU internal market law on their exercise. In this light, it seems important to investigate the reasons of these critical conditions through two interwoven key-concepts: democracy and citizenship at work.

Since the legal institutions connected to these two concepts are still rooted in domestic legislation, the symposium takes into consideration the EU legal system as well as the systems of the following representative countries: Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden and the UK.

The program is as follows:

6 MAY 201913.00-13.30 Registration of participants13.30-14.00 Opening addresses - Dean of the School of Economic and Management of Lund University - Head of the Department of Business Law 14.00-15.30 Conflict and Representation in the EU: Framing the Problem Chaired by Andreas Inghammar (Lund University) - Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni (Lund University), The EU as a Space for

Industrial Citizenship? - Andrea Iossa (Lund University), Industrial Citizenship in the Cross-

Border Dimension of the EU Internal Market: Trade Unions and the Re-Making of Borders

15.30-16.00 Coffee break16:00-17.30 Workplace Representation and the Right to Take Collective

Action in 5 EU Member States – Part 1 Chaired by Annamaria Westregård (Lund University) - Andreas Inghammar (Lund University), Critic of a Single Majority

Trade Union System and the Future Impact on Industrial Citizenship - Auriane Lamine (Louvain Catholic University), Fragmentation and

Restructuration of Workers’ Core Demos - A Critical Assessment of Belgian Legal Model of Workplace Representation

17:00-18:00 Light Refreshment

7 MAY 201909.00-10.30 Workplace Representation and the Right to Take Collective

Action in 5 EU Member States – Part 2 Chaired by Birgitta Nyström (Lund University) - Vincenzo Bavaro (University of Bari), The Legal Institutions of Labour

Representation in Italy - Gwenola Bargain (François Rabelais University, Tours), Current

Changes of Workplace Representation and Collective Action in France: A Flawed Architecture?

10.30-11.00 Coffee break11.00-12.15 - Fotis Vergis (University of Manchester), Restrictive Collective

Autonomy and the Challenge to Qualitative Systemic Democracy: the UK Example

12.15-13.00 Discussion and Closing Remarks by Mia Rönnmar (Lund University)

LUNDS UNIVERSITET

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Tel 046-222 00 00

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GET REGISTERED by sending an email to Gisela Broomé

- [email protected] - no later than 29 April 2019 (attendance is free of charge)

SYMPOSIUM VENUECrafoord Hall

School of Economics and ManagementTycho Brahes väg 1, Lund

ORGANISED BY Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni and Andreas Inghammar

Business Law Department

Find more information atwww.lusem.lu.se

The Symposium is funded by the Centre for European Studies at Lund University

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