(De) regulation of working time, employer capture, and 'forced availability': a comparison between the UK and Cyprus food retail sector
(De) regulation of working time, employer capture, and 'forced availability': a comparison between the UK and Cyprus food retail sector
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(De) 工作时间监管、雇主捕获和“强制供应”：英国和塞浦路斯食品零售业的比较
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10.1080/09585192.2017.1342682
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2017
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Hadjisolomou A
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Hadjisolomou A
本文旨在探讨英国和塞浦路斯国际食品零售行业的工作时间是如何监管和经验的。继马丁内斯-卢西奥和麦肯齐之后，本文承认雇佣关系的监管是一个多方面的现象，由不同制度层面的许多相互竞争的参与者所共有。该论文强调了两国工作时间监管的局限性，并认为雇主正在加强对轮班和工作时间的时间安排和分配的控制。本文阐述了雇主如何通过行使特权来“捕获”工作时间监管，使工作时间与客户的紧急需求更紧密地匹配。在这种环境下，本文揭示了员工如何经历“强制上班”等做法，以及延长工作时间的压力，以及面临着何时需要上班的越来越不可预测的情况。
This article is concerned with exploring how working time is regulated and experienced in the international food retail sector in the UK and Cyprus. Following Martinez-Lucio and Mackenzie the article accepts that regulation in employment relations is a multifaceted phenomenon shared by a number of competing actors at different institutional levels. The paper highlights the limitations of working time regulation in the two countries and argues that employers are increasing their control over the timing and allocation of shifts and working time. The paper illustrates how employers ‘capture’ working time regulation by exercising their prerogative to more closely match working time with the exigencies of customer demand. In this environment, the paper reveals how employees are experiencing practices such as ‘forced availability’, coupled with pressure to extend working hours as well as facing increasing levels of unpredictability as to when they are required to attend work.