Both on the ground and in the air, attention to detail can make all the difference between safety and disaster. Focused on pilots, Eva van der Fluit investigates what is needed in order to align the perspectives of all professionals they collaborate with so as to facilitate solid judgment and sound sense-making as the basis for their actions. This can lead to disagreements and conflict, which is not necessarily bad when they can manage, constructively, the pinnacle of differing paradigms at crucial moments. This can be defined as the sweet spot of conflict. This spot represents the essential moment at which all perspectives come to the table, are exchanged and lead to new insights. It takes special skills to manage such a process, many of which can be seen as mediation skills. If pilots, most often the captain, can successfully keep the communication process focused on the content and if they do not make it personal, the sweet spot may result in achieving a coordinated outcome, supported by all involved. The way pilots manage what is known as beginning conflict (as distinct from escalated conflict) has attracted the attention of other professionals such as doctors, lawyers, accountants and board members. Even at the lowest level of an organisation, important lessons may be learnt from the best practices developed in the airline industry. |
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Article |
How Pilots Reach for the Sweet Spot of Conflict |
Journal | Corporate Mediation Journal, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | positive work climate, communication, beginning conflict |
Authors | Eva van der Fluit |
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Case Law |
2022/1 EELC’s review of the year 2021 |
Journal | European Employment Law Cases, Issue 1 2022 |
Authors | Niklas Bruun, Filip Dorssemont, Zef Even e.a. |
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Various of our academic board analysed employment law cases from last year. |
Pending Cases |
Case C-731/21, Miscellaneous, Fundamental RightsDM – v – Azienda Ospedale-Università di Padova, reference lodged by the Tribunale ordinario di Padova (Italy) on 13 December 2021 |
Journal | European Employment Law Cases, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | Miscellaneous, Fundamental Rights |
Case Reports |
2022/7 Dismissal for violation of Covid-19 quarantine order (AT) |
Journal | European Employment Law Cases, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | Unfair dismissal |
Authors | Andreas Tinhofer and Isabella Göschl |
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The Supreme Court has decided that the summary dismissal of an employee for violating a Covid-19 quarantine order by appearing at work is effective and justified. |
Case Reports |
2022/11 Supreme Court judgment that may impact legislation to transpose the EU Whistleblowing Directive (IR) |
Journal | European Employment Law Cases, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | Whistleblowing, Health and Safety |
Authors | Sarah O’Mahoney |
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On 1 December 2021, just prior to the transposition deadline for Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (the ‘Whistleblowing Directive’), the Irish Supreme Court delivered a judgment that may have an impact on the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill, the piece of legislation intended to be enacted in order to comply with the Whistleblowing Directive. The judgment noted that, while the Oireachtas (the Irish parliament) had envisaged that most complaints for which whistleblower protection would be sought would concern matters of public interest, the actual definition of ‘protected disclosure’ in the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (the ‘2014 Act’) extends further than that and can cover complaints in the context of employment which are personal to the reporting person. While Ireland has missed the deadline and has yet to enact the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill, one of the intended amendments has been changed since this judgment was delivered. |
Case Reports |
2022/9 The organisation of working time in a company must not infringe employees’ rights to weekly rest (RO) |
Journal | European Employment Law Cases, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | Working Time |
Authors | Andreea Suciu and Andreea Oprea |
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The Iaşi Court of Appeal in Romania has upheld a decision issued by the Vaslui Tribunal which found that an employee cannot be the subject of disciplinary action for the refusal to perform work during their weekly rest notwithstanding that a working time schedule imposed by the employer was based on the applicability of an internal company policy. |
Case Reports |
2022/10 Labour Tribunal of Brussels decides that Deliveroo riders are self-employed workers and not employees (BE) |
Journal | European Employment Law Cases, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | Employment Status |
Authors | Gautier Busschaert |
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Working as a rider for the Deliveroo platform is a professional activity that can be performed as a self-employed worker, the Labour Tribunal of Brussels has decided, which also ruled out the possibility of Deliveroo riders enjoying the fiscally beneficial status available for workers active on electronic platforms of the collaborative economy (or ‘sharing economy’). |
Research Note |
Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduce Attention to Environmental Issues?A Panel Study Among Parents in Belgium, 2019-2020 |
Journal | Politics of the Low Countries, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | issue competition, COVID-19 pandemic, panel study, environmental concern, Belgium |
Authors | Sari Verachtert, Dieter Stiers and Marc Hooghe |
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Theories on issue competition assume that there is only a limited number of issues that a person prioritises simultaneously. In this research note, we test this mechanism by using a panel study that was conducted among Belgian parents in 2019 and 2020. Between the two observations of the study, the country suffered a severe health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigate whether this crisis reduced the priority of environmental issues among respondents. Our results show that there was indeed a significant decline of some indicators for environmental concern, but not for others. Furthermore, we show that a higher priority for the health-related and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a steeper decline in environmental concern. |
Article |
Fit for Office? The Perception of Female and Male Politicians by Dutch Voters |
Journal | Politics of the Low Countries, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | political underrepresentation, gender stereotypes, role incongruity, candidate evaluation, experimental vignette study |
Authors | Rozemarijn E. van Dijk and Joop van Holsteyn |
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The underrepresentation of women in politics is a worldwide phenomenon and the Netherlands fit the pattern: about 39% of the Dutch MPs are female. Based on social role incongruity theory, it is expected that female politicians are evaluated more negatively than male politicians since women do not fit the dominant male politician role. However, most research is conducted in the United States, that is, a candidate-centred system where individual characteristics play an important role. This article focuses on the party-centred parliamentary context in which we examine (1) whether gender stereotypes are present among citizens and (2) to what extent these stereotypes influence the evaluation of politicians. We do this by conducting an experimental vignette survey design. We find that at the mass level there is no difference between the evaluation of male and female politicians, although gender stereotypes are present. |
Article |
Morality in the Populist Radical RightA Computer-Assisted Morality Frame Analysis of a Prototype |
Journal | Politics of the Low Countries, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | Populist radical right, morality, frame analysis, word2vec, crimmigration |
Authors | Job P.H. Vossen |
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This article provides a computer-assisted morality framing analysis of Vlaams Belang’s 2019 manifesto. The VB is regarded in the literature as a prototypical example of the Populist Radical Right (PRR). We first concisely review what PRR politics is and what it consists of, tentatively distinguishing four elements that we hypothesise will materialise in corresponding subframes running throughout the manifesto. We point to a mismatch between the omnipresent role of morality in all PRR subframes and the little attention devoted to the concept in the PRR literature. We introduce a useful theory from social psychology into framing literature to create a novel methodological approach to frame analysis that builds a bridge between a qualitative content and a quantitative context approach. The results support our hypothesis that populism, nationalism, nativism and authoritarianism can be distinguished from one another. Additionally, we detect a fifth PRR subframe, crimmigration, by its unique role of morality. |
Article |
Opening an Absolute Majority A Typology of Motivations for Opening and Selecting Coalition Partners |
Journal | Politics of the Low Countries, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | negotiation, absolute majority, oversized coalition, motivations, local election |
Authors | Geoffrey Grandjean and Valentine Meens |
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Following the municipal elections in the Walloon Region (Belgium) on 14 October 2018, 189 political groups won an absolute majority. Twenty-two of these decided not to exercise power alone, but favoured the formation of an oversized coalition by integrating a minority partner. The aim of this article is to identify the motivations behind the formation of a local coalition when one of the partners has an absolute majority. Semi-structured interviews with mayors and leaders of political groups in these municipalities make it possible to identify the motivations for, first, the choice to open and, second, the choice of a minority partner. By distinguishing between necessary and supporting motivations, this article shows that the search for greater representation is a necessary motivation for the choice to open, whereas personal affinities and memories of the past are necessary motivations for choosing minority partners. By prioritising motivations, this article shows that. |
Article |
Meetings between victims and offenders suffering from a mental disorder in forensic mental health facilities: a qualitative exploration of their subjective experiences |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue Online First 2022 |
Keywords | Victim-offender meetings, restorative justice, forensic mental health, victimology, perception |
Authors | Mariëtte van Denderen and Michiel van der Wolf |
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Most studies about victim-offender meetings have been performed within prison populations, with little reference to offenders diagnosed with mental disorders. In establishing the effects of such meetings, these studies often use quantitative measures. Little is known about meetings between victims and offenders with mental disorders and about the more qualitative subjective experiences of the participants regarding these meetings. In this interview study, we inquired into the subjective experiences of sixteen participants in victim-offender meetings, six of whom are victims and ten offenders of severe crimes, currently residing in forensic mental health facilities. Topics of the interviews included benefits of the meeting and perceptions of each other prior to and after the meeting. Important benefits that participants experienced from meeting each other were reconnecting with family, processing the offence and contributing to each other’s well-being. Such benefits are comparable to those mentioned in studies on meetings with offenders without a mental disorder, challenging the practice that mentally disordered offenders are often excluded from such meetings. Most victims experienced a positive change in perception of the offender owing to the meeting. They perceived the offender as a human being and associated him less exclusively with his offence. Implications for clinical practice are addressed. |
Article |
Restorative justice training for judges and public prosecutors in the European Union: what is on offer and where are the gaps? |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue Online First 2022 |
Keywords | restorative justice, judicial training, judges, public prosecutors |
Authors | Ana Catarina Pereira, Britt De Craen and Ivo Aertsen |
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Judges and public prosecutors across Europe continue to be the main source of referral of cases to restorative justice programmes organised in the context of the criminal justice system. As a result, the training of these two groups of legal professionals regarding what restorative justice is and what it can offer to victims, offenders and the community has for many years been identified as a priority for the development of restorative justice in the European Union (EU). However, little information is available about what actually exists in terms of judicial training on restorative justice within the national judicial training institutions responsible for the initial and/or continuous training of judges and/or public prosecutors. Therefore, we developed an online survey on judicial training on restorative justice and invited 38 judicial training institutions operating in the (then) 28 EU Member States to participate in our study. We were able to make relevant observations regarding the reasons for the non-existence of restorative justice training in most of the judicial training institutions studied and identify important elements of the architecture of the restorative justice training offered by the judicial training institution of Czech Republic. |
Editorial |
Restorative spaces: how does the organisation of space contribute to the experience of justice? |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 1 2022 |
Authors | David Tait and Munzer Emad |
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Article |
Promoting restorative justice as de jure punishment: a vision for a different future |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | restorative justice, punishment |
Authors | Christian Gade |
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Restorative justice has frequently been presented as a new criminal justice paradigm, and as something that is radically different from punishment. I will argue that this ‘oppositioning’ is problematic for two reasons: first, because some cases of restorative justice constitute de facto punishment from the perspectives of some positions on what punishment is; second, because restorative justice could reasonably be more widely adopted as a new form of de jure punishment, which could potentially increase the use of restorative justice for the benefit of victims, offenders and society at large. In connection with the latter, I want to present some preliminary thoughts on how restorative justice could be incorporated into future criminal justice systems as de jure punishment. Furthermore, I will suggest that by insisting that restorative justice is radically different from punishment, restorative justice advocates may - contrary to their intentions − play into the hands of those who want to preserve the status quo rather than developing future criminal justice systems in the direction of restorative justice. |
Article |
Is a whole-school approach necessary? The potential for alternative models of restorative justice in education |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | restorative justice, procedural justice, student voice |
Authors | Heather Norris |
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Evaluations of restorative justice frequently report that only a minority of schools succeed in adopting a whole-school approach. More common are a consortium of practices necessitating the evaluation of schools not implementing the whole-school model but still achieving positive results. Previous research established that unconventional models have successful outcomes, yet little is known about the contextual factors and the causal mechanisms of different practices. This study finds that models of restorative justice facilitating student voice and consequently procedural justice have promising outcomes. Importantly, alternative models may be less resource-intensive, making them more feasible to fully implement. |
Notes from the field |
The Parents Circle-Families Forum – Israeli Palestinian bereaved families for peace: voices and actions from the field of the encounter |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 1 2022 |
Authors | Claudia Mazzucato |
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Notes from the field |
Living together in the same land: if we, bereaved families, can do it, you can too |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue 1 2022 |
Authors | Layla Alsheikh |
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Research Note |
Appendix Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduce Attention to Environmental Issues?A Panel Study Among Parents in Belgium, 2019-2020 |
Journal | Politics of the Low Countries, Issue 1 2022 |
Keywords | issue competition, COVID-19 pandemic, panel study, environmental concern, Belgium |
Authors | Sari Verachtert, Dieter Stiers and Marc Hooghe |
AbstractAuthor's information |
Theories on issue competition assume that there is only a limited number of issues that a person prioritises simultaneously. In this research note, we test this mechanism by using a panel study that was conducted among Belgian parents in 2019 and 2020. Between the two observations of the study, the country suffered a severe health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigate whether this crisis reduced the priority of environmental issues among respondents. Our results show that there was indeed a significant decline of some indicators for environmental concern, but not for others. Furthermore, we show that a higher priority for the health-related and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a steeper decline in environmental concern. |
Article |
The case for using culturally relevant values in restorative justice programming for Australian Aboriginal prisoners |
Journal | The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Issue Online First 2022 |
Keywords | Australia, Aboriginal, prison, values, restorative justice |
Authors | Jane Anderson |
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Western Australia is experiencing high rates of recidivism among Aboriginal offenders. This challenge can be partly addressed by delivering culturally relevant programming. Its dearth, however, suggests two questions: what is culturally fit in the context of the prison, and how might such programming be constructed? This article responds to these questions by focusing on one element of culture, ‘values’, that is influential ideas that determine desirable courses of action in a culture. Firstly, a review of the literature and comparative analysis is given to the respective key values of Aboriginal culture and European and Anglo-Australian cultures. It also highlights the importance of repairing Aboriginal values with implications for providing culturally relevant prison programming. Secondly, a report is given on how an in-prison Aboriginal restorative justice programme (AIPRJP) was co-designed by Noongar Elders and prisoners and me, an Anglo-Australian restorativist. Using an ethnographic approach, the project identified a set of Aboriginal values for addressing the harms resulting from historical manifestations of wrongdoing by settler colonialism and contemporary crimes of Aboriginal offenders. Brief commentary is then given to the delivery of the AIPRJP, followed by a summary of findings and recommendations for using culturally relevant programming. |