Regulating Employment Relations, Work and Labour Laws: International Comparisons between Key Countries

Marc Notes: Wolters Kluwer law & business.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-183). Contributor Bio:  Blanpain, Roger Roger Blanpain is a Professor at the University of Leuven and Katholieke Universiteit Brussels and is the Editor in Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Laws. Contributor Bio:  Bamber, Greg J Greg J. Bamber is Professor and Director of Research, Department of Management, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). He has previously worked in Australia at Griffith University, the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Queensland and at the University of Durham (UK). He is a past president of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. He has been an arbitrator, mediator and advisor for the UK Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He has direct experience of industrial-relations practice in many countries, especially Australia and the United Kingdom. He advises, researches and consults with international organizations, governments, employers and unions. His publications include many articles and such authored, co-authored or co-edited books as: "Militant Managers?" (Gower); "Managing Managers" (Blackwell); "Organisational Change Strategies" (Longman); "Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific" (Allen & Unwin/Thomson); "New Technology" (Routledge); "International and Comparative Employment Relations" (Sage/Allen & Unwin); and "Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees" (Cornell University Press). His publications have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Indonesian, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. E-mail: GregBamber@gmail.com. Contributor Bio:  Pochet, Philippe Philippe Pochet is the former Director of the Observatoire social europeen, and since March 2008 General Director of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). He teaches at the Catholic University of Louvain, is the author of a large number of publications on European policies and European governance, and is member of the CRIMT (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail).