(De) regulation of working time, employer capture, and ‘forced availability’: a comparison between the UK and Cyprus food retail sector
比较英国和塞浦路斯食品零售业中工作时间的监管与员工体验，揭示雇主如何通过行使管理权来加强对排班和工时的控制，导致员工面临“强制可用性”和工作时间不可预测的压力。
This article is concerned with exploring how working time is regulated and experienced in the international food retail sector in the UK and Cyprus. Following Martinez-Lucio and Mackenzie the article accepts that regulation in employment relations is a multifaceted phenomenon shared by a number of competing actors at different institutional levels. The paper highlights the limitations of working time regulation in the two countries and argues that employers are increasing their control over the timing and allocation of shifts and working time. The paper illustrates how employers ‘capture’ working time regulation by exercising their prerogative to more closely match working time with the exigencies of customer demand. In this environment, the paper reveals how employees are experiencing practices such as ‘forced availability’, coupled with pressure to extend working hours as well as facing increasing levels of unpredictability as to when they are required to attend work.