This article examines how the Estonian legal regulation of the implementation of collective agreements could be improved in order to secure a new role for these agreements, in response to the changing nature of labour relations. In particular, the article seeks to identify the changes in the regulation of collective agreements that could be introduced to extend their coverage and improve the representativeness of the parties. Since the representativeness of the parties is particularly important in enhancing the regulation and legal certainty of collective agreements, updating the regulation of extension clauses of collective agreements would contribute to the modernization of industrial relations. These topics are of great interest in the debate about collective labour law in Estonia, and the article concludes with some proposals for the improvement of the present regulations.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations