This article discusses the dynamics of collective bargaining in the management of restructuring, drawing on the example of the banking sector in France, Luxembourg and Romania. We show that the organized decentralization of the corporatist or statist models of France and Luxembourg helped sustain employment relations systems and cushion crisis effects. Bargaining outcomes included internal mobility and training. In Romania, by contrast, disorganized decentralization meant that solutions were left to the company level and to market forces.
AndolfattoDLabbéD (2016) France : La cartellisation des relations professionnelles. In: AndolfattoDContrepoisS (eds) Syndicats et dialogue social: Les modèles occidentaux à l’épreuve. Brussels: Peter Lang, 139–160.
4.
AndolfattoDContrepoisS (2016) Syndicats et Dialogue social. Brussels: Peter Lang.
5.
AndronicL (2015) Restructuring and Social Dialogue in the Banking Industry in Romania. Esch-sur-Alzette: LISER.
6.
ArrowsmithJMarginsonP (2011) Variable pay and collective bargaining in British retail banking. British Journal of Industrial Relations49(1): 54–79.
7.
BechterBBrandlBMeardiG (2012) Sectors or countries? Typologies and levels of analysis in comparative industrial relations. European Journal of Industrial Relations18(3): 185–202.
BispinckRDribbuschH (2011) Collective bargaining, decentralisation and crisis management in the German metalworking industries since 1990. Discussion Paper no. 177. Düsseldorf: WSI. Available at: https://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p_wsi_disp_177.pdf
10.
BrandlBTraxlerF (2011) Labour relations, economic governance and the crisis. Labor History52(1): 1–22.
11.
ChivuLCiutacuCDimitriuRTicleaT (2013) The Impact of Legislative Reforms on Industrial Relations in Romania. Budapest: ILO.
12.
DelteilVKirovV (2016) Building and reshaping social dialogue in the CEECs: From formal Europeanization to new dependencies in Bulgaria and Romania. In: DelteilVKirovV (eds) Labour and Social Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe: Europeanization and Beyond. New York: Routledge, pp. 185–206.
13.
European Banking Federation (EBF) (2015) European Banking Sector: Facts and Figures. Brussels: EBF.
14.
European Commission (2008) Restructuring in Europe 2008 – A Review of EU Action to Anticipate and Manage Employment Change. Brussels: European Commission.
15.
European Commission (2013) EU Quality Framework for Anticipation of Change and Restructuring. Brussels: European Commission.
16.
FordeCStuartMGardinerJet al. (2009) Socially responsible restructuring in an era of mass redundancy. Leeds University: CERIC Working Paper 5.
17.
GazierB (2008) Comparing processes across Europe. In: GazierBBrüggemanF (eds) Restructuring Work and Employment in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 11–31.
18.
GlassnerVKeuneM (2012) The crisis and social policy: The role of collective agreements. International Labour Review151(4): 351–375.
19.
HaipeterTJürgensUWagnerK (2012) Employment relations in the banking and automotive industries in Germany. International Journal of Human Resource Management10(23): 2016–2033.
20.
HallPSoskiceD (2001) An introduction to varieties of capitalism. In: HallPSoskiceD (eds) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–70.
21.
HoltgreweUKirovVRamioulM (2015) Hard Work in New Jobs: The Quality of Work and Life in European Growth Sectors. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
22.
HowarthD (2013) France and the international financial crisis: The legacy of state-led finance. Governance26(3): 369–395.
23.
HunekIGearyJ (2016) Institutional transition, power relations and the development of employment practices in multinational companies operating in Central and Eastern Europe. In: DelteilVKirovV (eds) Labour and Social Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe: Europeanization and Beyond. New York: Routledge, pp. 60–76.
24.
KatzH (1993) The decentralisation of collective bargaining: A literature review and comparative analysis. Industrial and Labor Relations Review47(1): 3–22.
25.
KatzHDarbishireO (1999) Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
26.
KirovVThillP (2015) Employment relations and restructuring management in the banking sector in Luxembourg. Warsaw Forum of Economics Sociology6(1): 75–100.
27.
KornelakisA (2014) Liberalization, flexibility and industrial relations institutions: Evidence from Italian and Greek banking. Work, Employment and Society28(1): 40–57.
28.
LaffondF (2014) Mobilité Professionnelle: Un Enjeu Pour Les Mutations Du Secteur Bancaire. Available at: www.defi-metiers.fr
29.
LallementM (2011) Europe and the economic crisis: Forms of labour market adjustment and varieties of capitalism. Work, Employment and Society25(4): 627–641.
30.
LehndorffS (2015) Europe’s divisive integration – An overview. In: LehndorffS (ed.) Divisive Integration. The Triumph of Failed Ideas in Europe – Revisited. Brussels: ETUI, pp. 7–37.
31.
MarginsonP (2014) Coordinated bargaining in Europe: From incremental corrosion to frontal assault?European Journal of Industrial Relations21(2): 97–114.
32.
MayerGAndersenTMullerM (2001) Employment restructuring and flexibility in Austrian and Danish banking. European Journal of Industrial Relations7(1): 71–87.
NicolaisenH (2011) Changes in the regulation of overtime under different collective bargaining regimes: A Comparison of Irish, Norwegian and Swedish banking. European Journal of Industrial Relations17(1): 7–23.
35.
Observatoire des métiers (2015) La Base De Données Sociales 2015. Paris: Observatoire des métiers.
36.
ProsserT (2014) Financialization and the reform of European industrial relations systems. European Journal of Industrial Relations20(4): 351–365.
37.
StanojevićMMrčelaABreznikM (2016) Slovenia at the crossroads: Increasing dependence on supranational institutions and the weakening of social dialogue. European Journal of Industrial Relations22(3): 281–294.
38.
TeissierCBussatV (2015) Social Dialogue and Anticipation of Restructuring in French Banks. Esch-sur-Alzette: LISER.
ThillPThomasA (2011) The end of consensus? The effects of the economic crisis on industrial relations in Luxembourg. In: BaglioniMBrandlB (eds) Changing Labour Relations: Between Path Dependency and Global Trends. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 71–85.
41.
TraxlerF (1995) Farewell to labour market associations? In: CrouchCTraxlerF (eds) Organised Employment Relations in Europe: What Future?Aldershot: Avebury, pp. 3–19.
42.
TrifA (2016) Surviving frontal assault on collective bargaining in Romania: The case of manufacturing companies. European Journal of Industrial Relations22(3): 221–234.
43.
VoineaA (2014) Programul next: Reorganizarea Reţelei Retail. Paper presented at EUROSOFIN Seminar, Bucharest, 13–16 November.
44.
VollaardHBeyersJDumontP (2015) European Integration and Consensus Politics in the Low Countries. London: Routledge.
45.
XiaoY (2009) French banks amid the global financial crisis. New York: IMF Working Paper 9–201.
46.
ZagelmeyerS (2013) Tackling the crisis through concession bargaining: Evidence from five German companies. International Journal of Manpower34(3): 232–251.
