I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where I lead the research project “Legal Strategies in Collective Labour Law.” Funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation, my project investigates, from a social science perspective, the doctrinal shift in the interpretation of freedom of association in German collective labour law since 1990. From 2021 to 2024, I coordinated the Hans Böckler Foundation-funded doctoral programme „Gerechtigkeit durch Tarifvertrag„ (Justice through Collective Bargaining) at the Institute for Labour Law at Freie Universität Berlin.
Between 2017 and 2021, I pursued my doctoral studies at the Institute of Political Science at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, where I completed my thesis on the New European Labour Policy Regime. This work was published by Campus Verlag under the title New European Labour Policy: Controversial Integration in the Euro Crisis (Neue Europäische Arbeitspolitik. Umkämpfte Integration in der Eurokrise). The thesis explores how the management of the euro crisis has partially Europeanised labour policy. Prior to this, I authored a book with SpringerVS analysing the impact of European crisis policies on French labour market and pension reforms.
My research interests lie in labour regulation, collective bargaining and the political economy of European integration. My previous work has primarily addressed issues related to labour and social policy, collective bargaining, and the evolution of employers’ associations across Europe. Currently, I am investigating legal disputes surrounding collective labour law as well as the strategies employed by employers’ associations in collective bargaining and litigation within Europe.
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Mail: mail(at)felix-syrovatka.de
ORCID: 0000-0002-4394-7304
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