Flexibility and stability of expectations in the contract of employment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4237329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Collins (0000-0002-2142-2208, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 139-153 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socio-Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ser/mwj036 |
| OpenAlex | W2034496600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
The law stabilizes transactional relations by protecting the implicit expectations of the parties to contracts by various techniques including the imposition of mandatory and supplementary rules. The established pattern in the contract of employment of the protection of expectations of co-operation from the employee and fair treatment by the employer has come under strain as a consequence of the employer's increasing expectations of functional flexibility and entrepreneurial activity on the part of the employee. In order to protect these new expectations with regard to the indeterminacy and impermanence of employment, communication and consultation, and incentive-based payment systems, legal systems need to evolve new normative standards that can articulate and stabilize these new forms of employment relations. Using the model of symbiotic contracts as a paradigm, the essay explores what normative standards and regulatory techniques will be appropriate to stabilize and protect new flexible employment relations. The primary objective of this regulation is to secure fair treatment for employees so that they will be willing to co-operate with new flexible forms of employment, which in turn should promote competitiveness.
Business · Economics · Employment contract · Flexibility (engineering) · Impermanence · Incentive · Labour economics · Law and economics · Management · Microeconomics · Normative · Order (exchange) · Payment · Political science · Transactional leadership · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Finance · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |