Opening session

Aula 6
Thursday 8 September 2016, 11.30-12.00
 

• Lorenzo Bordogna, President of the Local Organising Committee
• Monica Diluca, Deputy Rector for Internationalisation, Università degli Studi di Milano
• Dong-One Kim, President of ILERA, The future of employment relations as an academic field

Opening address

Aula 6
Thursday 8 September 2016, 12.00-13.00

Chair: Erika Mezger (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions)
 

• Paul Marginson (University of Warwick), Market Integration, Structural reform and European industrial relations: An increasingly fractured landscape? [presentation]

Keynote speech Track I: Actors at national and European level

Aula 6
Thursday 8 September 2016, 17.30-18.30

Chair: Ida Regalia (Università degli Studi di Milano)
 

• Jeremy Waddington (University of Manchester and Project Coordinator for the ETUI), European works councils: The state of play

Discussant: Gian Primo Cella (Università degli Studi di Milano)
 

Keynote speech Track III: The European dimension of regulation

Aula 6
Friday 9 September 2016, 09.00-10.00

Chair: Janice Bellace (University of Pennsylvania)
 

• Mia Rönnmar (University of Lund), European labour law in flux – Hard, soft or fundamental?

Discussant: Stefania Scarponi (Università degli Studi di Trento)
 

Keynote speech Track II: Collective bargaining and participation

Aula 6
Friday 9 September 2016, 12.00-13.00

Chair: Martin Behrens (Hans Böckler Foundation)
 

• Maarten Keune (University of Amsterdam), Challenges to collective bargaining and participation in Europe

Discussant: Søren Kaj Andersen (University of Copenhagen)
 

Special plenary session: Industrial relations at the EU level

Aula 6
Friday 9 September 2016, 16.00-17.30

Chair: Roberto Pedersini (Università degli Studi di Milano)
 

• Barbara Kauffmann, Director for Employment and Social Governance, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
• Marco Cilento, European Trade Union Confederation
• Nils Trampe, BusinessEurope

 

Keynote speech Track IV: The transformation of the public sector

Aula 6
Friday 9 September 2016, 17.30-18.30

Chair: Frikkie De Bruin (Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council of South Africa)
 

• Jill Rubery (University of Manchester), Why the public sector matters for gender equality [presentation]

Discussants: Berndt Keller (University of Konstanz), Oscar Molina (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
 

Keynote speech Track V: HRM, business performance, quality of work

Aula 6
Saturday 10 September 2016, 09.00-10.00

Chair: Russell Lansbury (University of Sydney)
 

• Andrew Pendleton (University of Durham), Ownership, financialization, and employment relations [presentation]

Discussant: Johanna Weststar (Western University)
 

Closing session: The future of work

Aula 6
Saturday 10 September 2016, 12.00-13.30

Chair: Dong-One Kim, President of ILERA
 

• Nicolas Niemtchinow, International Labour Office
• Susan Hayter, International Labour Office
• Silvana Sciarra, Judge of the Italian Constitutional Court and Università degli Studi di Firenze
• Maxime Cerutti, BusinessEurope
• Esther Lynch, European Trade Union Confederation

Closing of Congress

Aula 6
Saturday 10 September 2016, 13.30-14.00
 

• Roberto Pedersini, Local Organising Committee, Università degli Studi di Milano
• Mia Rönnmar, President-Elect of ILERA