Frank Hendrickx

Gustaaf De Monie

Karel Joos

Laurent Couvreur

Chris Peeters

PROF. DR. anus PEETERS PRESIDENT- ExECUTIVE DIRECTOR, POLICY RESEARCH CORPORATION N. V. The "Strategies for Global and Regional Ports" confirms that container shipping in the wider Caribbean is in for tumultuous development in the years to come. One of the driving forces behind the momentous changes expected in the provision of maritime liner services in the region, is the growing reliance by major container carriers on multi-layered transhipment concepts and hub ports. Given its favourable location at the junction of North-South and East West trades, the Caribbean region is increasingly becoming a crucial factor in the service pattern of major carriers. As a result, global terminal operating companies such as Hutchison Port Holdings and Stevedoring Services of America, are already tapping the potential for developing port activity that was, until recently, dormant. In anticipation of the new shipping patterns to emerge in the coming months and years, major political decisions with respect to shipping and port development need to be taken by Caribbean Governments. Many of these decisions will be made under pressure of well meaning lobbies, but which do not always have the necessary insight into liner shipping developments. The Netherlands Antilles is one of those nations whose ports are at a crossroads and may either become regional hub ports or turn into feeder ports. In view of the changes in the Caribbean maritime geography, the Ministry of Traffic and Transport of the Netherlands Antilles commissioned Policy Research Corporation N.

The Case of Caribbean Container and Cruise Ports

Strategies for Global and Regional Ports

Roger Blanpain

Sarah de Groof

Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations Volume 98 Work-Life Balance in the Modern Workplace provides insights into labour law's challenges from a work-life balance perspective. The term 'work-life balance' refers to the relationship between paid work in all of its various forms and personal life, which includes family but is not limited to it. In addition, gender permeates every aspect of this relationship. This volume brings together a wide range of perspectives from a number of different disciplines, presenting research findings and their implications for policy at all levels (national, sectoral, enterprise, workplace). Collectively, the contributors seek to close the gap between research and policy with the intent of building a better work-life balance regime for workers across a variety of personal circumstances, needs and preferences. What's in this book: Among the issues and topics covered are the following: differences and similarities between men and women and particularly between mothers and fathers in their work choices; 'third shift' work (work at home at night or during weekends); effect of the extent to which employers perceive management of this process to be a 'burden'; employers' exploitation of the psychological interconnection between masculinity and breadwinning; organisational culture that is more available for supervisors than for rank-and-file workers; weak enforcement mechanisms and token penalties for non-compliance by employers; trade unions as the best hope for precarious workers to improve work-life balance; crowd-work (on-demand performance of tasks by persons selected remotely through online platforms from a large pool of potential and generic workers); an example of how to use work-life balance insights to evaluate the law; collective self-scheduling; employers' duty to accommodate; and financial hardship as a serious threat to work-life balance. How this will help you: This book encourages to think on how labour law and work and family research can cooperate and reinforce each other. This rich collection of chapters clearly shows that work-life conflict is associated with negative health outcomes, gender inequalities and many other concerns and thereby resonates particularly with concerned lawyers and legal academics who ask what work-life balance literature has to offer and how law should respond.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Work-family Research, Law and Policy

Work-life Balance in the Modern Workplace

On the occasion of the official ‘retirement’ of the eminent labour law scholar Antoine Jacobs, a number of his colleagues – themselves well-respected in the field of labour law and industrial relations – have assembled this volume of essays to manifest the breadth and variety of this great professor’s work. The authors pay particular attention to the tension, always present in Jacobs’s critical research, of traditional values with an acute awareness of emerging realities. He approached labour law, not merely as a series of static issues concerning workers and employers, but as an evolving discipline that persistently challenged its socio-political context. Among the wide range of issues considered in this collection – all of them prominent in Jacobs’s work – are the following: the right to work; the right to strike versus the freedom to strike; the role of the European Union in national labour law; transnational collective bargaining; social security issues; labour law and the social teaching of churches; bankruptcy; and more.

Liber Amicorum Antoine Jacobs

Labour Law between Change and Tradition

Frank Hendrickx

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