Abstract

PERELLO GOMEZ, Nancy. Labor Reforms: Employment vs. Flexibilization. New Paradigms in Labor Law. Gaceta Laboral [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.3, pp.386-403. ISSN 1315-8597.

This paper analyzes how the structure of the labor relations model is being modified by the flexibilization tendencies undergone in the most recent reforms of western judicial labor regimes, and which affected the regulator framework for the defense of labor. The debate on labor flexibility operated through western judicial reforms which affected the regulatory framework for the defense of employment. The debate as to labor flexibility operated through judicial reforms that affect the traditional system of labor relations and appear as a consequence of increased unemployment and a lessening in labor rights acquisition for workers on a global scale where economic changes condition the development of the labor market. In this sense we undertake, though summarily in many aspects, an analysis of how globalization has forced the introduction of labor reforms in favor of reaching a more flexible management of human resources within the organization of businesses, and at the same time choosing the path to follow in adapting oneself to local markets, originating the development of new forms and policies of employment that derive from re-dimensioning labor law.

Keywords : Labor reforms; flexibility; labor market; employment; labor relations.