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Pacts for employment and competitiveness in the electricity sector

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  • Volker Telljohann

    (Senior researcher, Institute for Labour Foundation, Bologna)

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The European Union Energy Sector Directive no. 96/62 laid down that Member States were to initiate a market liberalisation process in the electricity sector. In this context Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness (PEC) represent part of a strategy enterprises are adopting in order to face the challenge of managing the changeover from near-monopoly to internationally competitive structures. The article, based on ten case studies carried out in five EU Member States, looks at the thinking underlying these pacts, the changes at the level of collective bargaining, and how the PECs are interpreted by the parties involved: not only the contents of the PECs, but also the underlying motives, the processes of negotiation and the effects of the agreements. It points to areas in which PECs have been able to contribute to generating win-win situations, but also to possible ambiguities and contradictions linked to the negotiation and implementation of such pacts.

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  • Volker Telljohann, 2001. "Pacts for employment and competitiveness in the electricity sector," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 7(4), pages 636-649, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:7:y:2001:i:4:p:636-649
    DOI: 10.1177/102425890100700407
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