Abstract: The purpose of this comparative overview is to provide an analysis of recent trends, issues and challenges facing the labour law and labour relations systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. One of the major difficulties in preparing such an overview arises from the great differences which exist in the countries of the region. Changes in collective bargaining and the laws which affect countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland do not have much in common with each other, while problems in law and collective bargaining in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina are quite different from those in Lithuania or Slovakia. In order to make the analysis meaningful, it is necessary in this overview to concentrate on certain fundamental problems in the light of the enlargement of the EU. Therefore, the report focuses on issues such as collective bargaining, the extension of collective agreements and labour dispute settlements.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations