Background and Previous Experience
Marco Biasi is Professor of Comparative Industrial Relations Law and European Social Law at Bocconi University in Milan, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2013. He is also a Post-Doc Research Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and a Milan court attorney.
Previously, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena (from March 2012 through August 2012) and a Visiting Professor of Employment Law at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh in September 2014.
Biasi was the recipient of the Lincean Academy’s 2014 Francesco Santoro-Passarelli Prize for “best debut book by a Labour Law Scholar in 2012-2013” for his first monographic work on employee involvement from a comparative perspective, based on the German, European, and Italian experiences (“Il nodo della Partecipazione dei lavoratori in Italia. Evoluzioni e prospettive nel confronto con il modello tedesco ed europeo,” Egea, Milano, 2013).
Biasi has had two articles published in the labor law journals Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal and International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, and he is currently finalizing an article on the “Europeanized” collective bargaining decentralization process in eight European countries. Additionally, he is editing an extensive commentary on the latest reform of the labor market in Italy (the so-called “Jobs Act”) with Professor Zilio Grandi of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, which will be published by Cedam by the end of 2015.
Current Research at ILR
Marco Biasi’s main fields of study include employee involvement, comparative dismissal protection policies, labor in networked firms and agency work, collective bargaining patterns, statutory minimum wage policies, the function and role of employer associations, and fixed-term employment regulation. While at ILR, he is interested in learning more about the statutory employee workplace representation in the U.S., dating back to the NLRA of 1935.
His interest for the “Exclusive Bargaining Agent” model derives from the most recent developments in the Italian system of statutory representation, which, despite being traditionally based on a pluralistic pattern, is now apparently shifting towards a more intense role of the majority principle (whether or not adherence to an exclusive agent model or to a plurality of agents acting in furtherance of the majority rule still remains to be seen). The choice to conduct this research at the ILR School comes from the School’s well-known name and reputation as an inclusive, authoritative, interdisciplinary, and international environment.
-Marco Biasi
