“Challenges of the Labour Regulation Framework as a result of transformation in production organisations: an analysis of the construction, chemical, and automobile sectors”

 

Project SEJ 2006-11287/JURI, managed by Professor Dr. D. Jesús Mercader Uguina

Announcement of a National R+D+I Plan (2004-2007)

Financing entity: Ministry for Education and Science

Existing literature on legal labour focuses on the analysis of regulations in the different sectors of activity, without proceeding, except on rare occasions, to carry out a singularised study of the specific problems and situations that affect actual sectors of activity. The main aim of this investigation is to perform a legal labour analysis of three of the most significant sectors in our economy: construction, chemical, and automobile. The aim is to obtain a more in-depth and realistic knowledge of the complex problems they face by analysing a series of large thematic blocks which would act as a reference module for the study.

The purpose of the project is to discover the extent to which the regulation of the basic issues of each of these blocks is affecting our labour relations system as a whole and also the extent to which new trends are detected and the approaches for tackling them. The chosen sectors have strategic value, due to both their economic importance (they represent around 25% of Spanish GDP), and the volume of workers affected (more than 15% of the working population). In the same way, they can be considered as structural sectors which have always been of importance since the approval of the Workers Statute. Through this, it is possible to extract relevant conclusions on the changes which have occurred over time in the labour regulation framework, and predict trends for the future.

Therefore, in full collaboration with the social agents involved in the different sectors, a detailed study will be carried out of the various examples of collective bargaining, as well as of the main legal decisions applicable to these sectors of activity.

• Automotive sector
• Construction Sector