Driving the EU working conditions directive: social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship
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Driving the EU working conditions directive : social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship. / Mailand, Mikkel.
In: Comparative European Politics, 2024.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Driving the EU working conditions directive
T2 - social partner reactivity and the limits to commission entrepreneurship
AU - Mailand, Mikkel
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The EU’s social dimension has been strengthened since the mid-2010s. Recent research has shown how Commission entrepreneurship in meta-governance such as the European Pillar of Social Rights and the European Semester turned existing regulation in a more ‘social’ direction or led to new regulation strengthening Social Europe. This article asks whether the Commission also stands out as the most important actor in initiatives focused exclusively on working conditions and if the European social partners also in these are secondary reactive actors. Focusing on a recent case where the social partners had a treaty-based right to bargain—the Working Conditions Directive—the article confirms the Commission’s dominance and the reactivity of the social partners. The choice not to bargain reduces the social partners to lobbyists attempting to influence other key actors. However, the case also shows the limits to Commission entrepreneurship in that EU member states and the European Parliament were able to influence the outcome in important ways.
AB - The EU’s social dimension has been strengthened since the mid-2010s. Recent research has shown how Commission entrepreneurship in meta-governance such as the European Pillar of Social Rights and the European Semester turned existing regulation in a more ‘social’ direction or led to new regulation strengthening Social Europe. This article asks whether the Commission also stands out as the most important actor in initiatives focused exclusively on working conditions and if the European social partners also in these are secondary reactive actors. Focusing on a recent case where the social partners had a treaty-based right to bargain—the Working Conditions Directive—the article confirms the Commission’s dominance and the reactivity of the social partners. The choice not to bargain reduces the social partners to lobbyists attempting to influence other key actors. However, the case also shows the limits to Commission entrepreneurship in that EU member states and the European Parliament were able to influence the outcome in important ways.
KW - Commission entrepreneurship
KW - European Parliament
KW - European social partners
KW - Social Europe
KW - The European Council
KW - Working conditions directive
U2 - 10.1057/s41295-024-00392-6
DO - 10.1057/s41295-024-00392-6
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85193966598
JO - Comparative European Politics
JF - Comparative European Politics
SN - 1472-4790
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