scholarly journals Working Time Regulation, Unequal Lifetimes and Fairness

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Louise Leroux ◽  
Gregory Ponthiere
Keyword(s):  
Working Time ◽  
Working Time Regulation

Part-time work in Danish private services: a (mis)match between wage flexibility and living hours

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-158
Author(s):  
Trine P. Larsen ◽  
Anna Ilsøe ◽  
Jonas Felbo-Kolding
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Wage Regulation ◽  
Wage Penalties ◽  
Industrial Cleaning ◽  
Workforce Composition ◽  
Working Time Regulation

This chapter explores how the institutional framework for working time and wage regulation affects the prevalence of marginal part-time employment (less than 15 working hours per week) and its implications for men and women's hourly earnings within retail, industrial cleaning, hotels and restaurants. Analytically, we draw on the concept of living hours and find that the combined effects of wage and working time regulation influence the take-up of contracts of few hours and the workforce composition. We argue that the institutional framework of collective agreements, in some instances, facilitates a win-win situation for employers and employees alike and narrows the gender pay gap. In other instances, the very same agreements seemingly promote dualisation, especially for young people and migrants in terms of wage penalties and contracts of few hours, indicating the dual nature of the institutional framework.

scholarly journals Working time regulation, unequal lifetimes and fairness

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Louise Leroux ◽  
Gregory Ponthiere
Keyword(s):  
Working Time ◽  
Working Time Regulation

The Matzak judgment of the CJEU: The concept of worker and the blurring frontiers of work and rest time

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-352
Author(s):  
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra ◽  
Christina Hiessl
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Rest Time ◽  
Working Time Regulation

The CJEU’S Matzak judgment raises diverse and important questions concerning (not only) working time regulation in the European Union. The present special issue sheds light on some of these questions, more specifically with regard to the Working Time Directive‘s personal scope as well as the notions of working time and rest time under EU law. The Directive’s scope is linked to the concept of worker and the criteria to construct it and, in the context of the Matzak case, leads to interesting questions about the position of volunteers in EU law and the problem of concurrent contracts. In this respect, exploring a purposive approach attending to the health and safety aims of the Directive may be fruitful. The boundaries between working time and rest time are far from clear, especially in situations of stand-by and on call time. Here the proposal of an intermediate category related to the idea of quality of rest time is discussed.

scholarly journals The rat race and working time regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-314
Author(s):  
Malte Jauch
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Collective Action Problem ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Working Time Regulation ◽  
The Ideal

To what extent, if at all, should a just society adopt public policies that regulate and limit the amount of time people work? Attempts to answer this question face a dilemma: Either, we can adopt a laissez-faire view, according to which governments must refrain from imposing working time policies on the labour market. But this view generates a situation in which many citizens experience deep regret about the balance between work and leisure in their lives. Or, we can endorse an interventionist view that advocates government imposition of working time policies. However, such a view appears to be objectionably perfectionist insofar as it imposes on citizens a particular conception of the ideal balance between work and leisure. This article proposes a way out of this dilemma. It shows that the interventionist view can be defended on the anti-perfectionist grounds that this helps address a collective action problem in the labour market – the working time rat race. Employers often use working time as a proxy for their employees’ productivity and commitment. Those who work particularly long hours are often awarded benefits such as raises or promotions or are spared from dismissals. This makes it individually rational for each worker to work extra hours in an attempt to outcompete colleagues. However, if many workers pursue this strategy, it loses its effectiveness. Workers with preferences for more leisure have a claim to state intervention to remove the rat race when this doesn’t impose disproportionate harm on third parties.

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