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Flashcards by Yago Gimeno, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Yago Gimeno
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is the mean to determine working hours between employees and organizations? | Collective Bargaining |
| What is employee/employer-friendly flexibility? Which one prevails today? | Employee-friendly: Employees decide the working time Employer-friendly: Employers decide their employee's working time Employer-friendly prevails |
| External VS Internal flexibility | - External Flexibility - (In Numbers) Increase or decrease of workers according to demand - Internal Flexibility - Adapting to situations using the workers that the Company already has |
| Describe the 3 types of Internal Flexibility | 1) Functional - Relocation to different tasks 2) Financial - Linking salary to performance 3) Working-time - Adjusting hours/schedule |
| What is Overtime? | - Form of working time flexibility - Working more hours than the max agreed (Temporarily) - Usual way of coping with workload peaks by companies, without hiring any additional staff |
| What is Part-Time Work? | Working fewer hours than the max. agreed More women than men Netherlands great difference of % between men and women |
| What is Shift Work? | A situation in which one worker replaces another on the same job within 24h |
| What is Flexicurity? | Combination of flexibility and security for a decent work |
| Describe Long Hours | Limit should be set at 50h per week |
| What has been the trend with working hours on the last decades? | Clear reduction of working hours Clear intensification of work |
| What are unsocial hours? | Night, weekends and shifts |
| How are legislations adapted to countries? | They take a lot of time, sometimes up to 5 years |
| When did limitations on working hours start? | During the Great Depression, to promote employment |
| What kind of workers have the most elevated working hours? | Self-employed workers Managers of small enterprises |
| What are the 3 regulations on breaks by the EU? | 1) Min. daily rest period - 11 consecutive hours /24 2) Rest break during work time if on duty for longer than 6h 3) Min. weekly rest of 24 uninterrupted hours each 7 days |
| Has the number of part-time workers increased or decreased in the last years? | Increased by around 3% |
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