The company in turmoil : what happens to its employees ?

• Jean-Daniel REYNAUD
  Honorary Professor, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (institute for engineering studies)
  
• Marie-Laure MORIN
  Research worker at the CNRS ; Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Ressources Humaines et l'Emploi (LIRHE), Toulouse
  

Summary

Demands for flexibility imposed on companies by markets have transformed employment relations. Collective labour agreements, or traditional negotiations within companies, no longer determine the nature of short-term jobs efficiently and as a result, there is a need to overhaul the labour laws. Jean-Daniel Reynaud and Marie-Laure Morin outline the changes taking place by showing which rules, participants and type of negotiations should replace the former methods of regulation. The emerging solutions are in a 'wish list' state.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Sylvie CHEVRIER.

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The entire article appears in French in the Journal de l'École de Paris du management N° 3.