Volume 77 (2024), Edition 6

During the Covid-19 pandemic, sales assistants and cashiers in the retail sector were among the “systemically relevant” occupational groups that only briefly received public recognition. For many employees, the demands and working conditions of...

With the rapid pace of development of artificial intelligence (AI), there are growing concerns about the ethical, legal, and social risks of its use. For this reason, there have been political efforts in Europe and Germany for some time to regulate...

Participation in further training is crucial to maintaining employability, especially for low-skilled workers who have fewer opportunities for employer-supported training. Works councils, with their extensive co-determination rights, serve as...

The EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union, adopted in October 2022, goes far beyond ensuring adequate (statutory) minimum wages. Its second central objective of fundamentally strengthening collective bargaining throughout the...

Every German citizen has at least minimal opportunities for social participation, de jure. De facto, the opportunities for participation in mainstream society are highly unequal. It is the aim of this report to show where material and political...

This article provides a detailed insight into the methodology of the WSI Works and Staff Councils Survey (“WSI-Betriebs- und Personalrätebefragung”). It covers the development of the survey from its inception in 1998 to the current panel study,...

This article presents the findings of the fourth survey on employer resistance to works council elections. It was completed in 2023 and is a follow-up study to similar surveys amongst local trade union organisations conducted by the WSI in 2012,...

Using the German programme “Participation in the labour market” as an example, the study examines the effects of subsidised employment on the amount of time male and female long-term benefit recipients spend on paid work and unpaid work at home,...