Contracting International Employee Participation Global Framework Agreements /

• Main Author: Hadwiger, Felix (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Law and Economics,
• Subjects: Labor law.; Law and economics.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; Industrial organization.; Labour Law/Social Law.; Law and Economics.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .; Industrial Organization.
• Physical Description: XXII, 233 p. 23 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319710990
• ISSN: 2364-1851
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71099-0

In the last two decades, multinational companies (MNCs) and global union federations (GUFs) have started to negotiate so-called global framework agreements (GFAs) which define minimum standards for labor conditions across their locations. This book focuses on the question why companies conclude GFAs, and identifies four groups of incentives: reduction and privatization of conflicts; public relations; promotion of equal competitive conditions; exogenous requirements and avoidance of public regulation. Based on an in-depth analysis of incentives considered to play a dominant role in the decision of companies to conclude GFAs, the book attempts to predict under which conditions GFAs can be expected to proliferate in the future.