Description
Working time and rest periods
Book summary
This monographic work analyzes the legal issues derived from labor flexibility and the adaptation of working time to the productive needs of the company. The authors examine how new production models, aimed at maximizing profitability by adjusting supply to demand, break the traditional homogeneity of work and rest cycles. The book highlights the worker's loss of control over their own time, offering a rigorous analysis of the legal implications this transformation generates in the employment relationship.
What is it about?
The work addresses the transformation of working time in the context of new production approaches. In order to be competitive, companies need to respond immediately to market fluctuations, producing only what demand requires at any given moment. This need for flexibility and adaptability has a direct impact on working conditions, especially in the organization of working time. The book analyzes how work and rest cycles cease to be homogeneous and predictable, generating a series of legal problems for the worker, who loses control over the management of their time. Through a monographic approach, the legal consequences of this new reality are examined and the conflicts that arise between corporate flexibility and workers' rights are broken down.
Main topics
- Labor flexibility and its impact on the working day.
- Adaptability of working time to the company's productive needs.
- Legal problems derived from the worker's loss of control over their time.
- Analysis of new non-homogeneous work and rest cycles.
- Relationship between the maximization of productive profitability and labor rights.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at labor law professionals, specialized lawyers, human resources advisors, students of law and labor relations, as well as trade unionists and personnel managers interested in understanding the legal implications of temporal flexibility in the workplace.
What this book offers
- A detailed legal analysis of the problems of flexible working time.
- Understanding of the legal conflicts that arise between the company and the worker due to schedule adjustments.
- Clarity on the worker's loss of control over their own work and rest cycles.
- A monographic and specialized vision of a central topic in contemporary labor relations.
- Conceptual tools to address the legal challenges of demand-driven production.
Technical data sheet
- Author: GORELLI HERNANDEZ, JUAN; PEREZ GUERRERO,
- Publisher: University of Huelva
- Language: Spanish
- Topic: SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND EFFORT, LABOR LAW
- Collection: COLLECTANEA
- Binding: Paperback
- Date of publication: January 2021
- Number of pages: 286
- Weight: 645 g
Editorial review
This is a reference work for those who need to delve into the legal aspects of schedule flexibility. Its monographic and specialized approach allows for an exhaustive analysis of a complex and highly topical subject, offering the reader a solid foundation for understanding the legal conflicts that arise at the intersection of business productivity and workers' rights. It is essential reading for the labor law professional seeking to understand the new dynamics of working time.