Industrielle Beziehungen

This paper documents and analyses the demise of works councils in Germany in the period 2007–2022. Using representative panel data, we show that the share of plants with a works council has fallen in the private but not in the public sector in...

Germany, with its unique social partnership model, firm-level co-determination, and high automation potential across its dominant industrial sector, provides an intriguing case for examining works councils’ effect on automation risks in more...

The study investigates how employees allocated their additional time arising from short-time work in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.Short-time work is a radical form of working time reduction. In contrast to existing studies that focus on the...

Brexit has had significant implications for European Works Councils in multinational companies operating in the United Kingdom. This international comparative case study examines these implications based on 60 cases, employing qualitative content...