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标题：Temporary Agency Work and Trade Unions in Comparative Perspective
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作者：Nadja Doerflinger ; Valeria Pulignano
期刊名称：SAGE Open
印刷版ISSN：2158-2440
电子版ISSN：2158-2440
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：2
DOI：10.1177/2158244015575633
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：The article examines local union approaches toward temporary agency work in Belgium and Germany. Heterogeneous plant-level use of temporary work is explained by differences in collective bargaining, together with representation structures and rights for agency workers. Specifically, within a context providing effective rights for representation, the Belgian unions responded to firms’ economic difficulties by improving the working conditions of agency workers through negotiating plant-level agreements that contributed to fostering equality between agency workers and regular workers. In contrast, agency work became instrumental in safeguarding the core workforce’s employment in the German workplaces, where the representation rights were absent. As a result, the status of agency workers remained vulnerable.
关键词：temporary agency work; trade unions; collective bargaining; employee representation; comparative industrial relations