The European Social Charter and Employment Relation

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5099-2971-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 828 g

This collection addresses the potential of the European Social Charter to promote and safeguard social rights in Europe. Drawing on the expertise of the ETUI Transnational Trade Union Rights expert network from across Europe, it provides a comprehensive commentary on these fundamental rights. Taking a two part approach, it offers an in-depth legal analysis of the European Social Charter as a new social constitution for Europe, investigating first the potential of the general legal frame in which the Charter is embedded. In the second phase a series of social rights which are related to the employment relation are examined in particular in light of the jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR), to demonstrate the crucial but difficult role of the Charter's supervisory bodies to secure the respect and promotion of social rights and national level, bearing in mind the reciprocal influence of other international social rights instruments. This examination is timely, given the pressure exerted on those rights during the recent period of economic crisis. Furthermore, in the light of the predominantly economic vision of Europe, such analysis is crucial. The collection is aimed at stimulating academic scrutiny and raising awareness amongst practitioners and trade unions about this important and equally necessary anchor of the social dimension of Europe in legal and political practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruun, Niklas

Lörcher, Klaus

Schömann, Isabelle

Clauwaert, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Arbeits- und Sozialrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: General Part
The European Social Charter as the Social Constitution of Europe

Olivier De Schutter
Interpretation

Klaus Lörcher
Implementation: Article I

Teun Jaspers
Restrictions: Article G

Aristea Koukiadaki
The Charter's Supervisory Procedures

Stefan Clauwaert

Part II: Specific Articles
Article 1: The Right to Work

Simon Deakin
Article 2: The Right to Just Conditions of Work

Klaus Lörcher
Article 3: The Right to Safe and Healthy Working Conditions

Klaus Lörcher
Article 4: The Right to a Fair Remuneration

Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin
Article 5: The Right to Organise

Antoine Jacobs
Article 6: The Right to Bargain Collectively: A Matrix for Industrial Relations

Filip Dorssemont
Article 7: The Right of Children and Young Persons to Protection

Isabelle Schömann
Article 8: The Right of Women to Maternity Protection

Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky
Article 15: The Right of Disabled Persons to Vocational Training, Rehabilitation and Resettlement

Isabelle Schömann
Article 19§4: The Right of Migrant Workers and Their Families to Protection and Assistance

Stefan Clauwaert
Article 20: The Right to Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment in Matters of Employment and Occupation without Discrimination on The Grounds of Sex

Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky
Article 21: The Right to Information and Consultation

Bruno Veneziani
Article 22: The Right to Take Part in the Determination and Improvement of the Working Conditions and
Working Environment

Niklas Bruun
Article 24: The Right to Protection in Cases of Termination of Employment

Mélanie Schmitt
Article 26: The Right to Dignity at Work

Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky
Article 27: The Right of Workers with Family Responsibilities to Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment

Isabelle Schömann
Article 28: The Right of Workers' Representatives to Protection in the Undertaking and Facilities to Be Accorded to Them

Niklas Bruun
Article 29: The Right to Information and Consultation in Collective Redundancy Procedures

Bruno Veneziani
Article E: Non-Discrimination

Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky
Conclusions-The Potentials for the Charter to be Used

Niklas Bruun, Klaus Lörcher, Isabelle Schömann and Stefan Clauwaert

Über Autor(innen)

Bruun, Niklas
Niklas Bruun is Emeritus Professor in Private Law at the University of Helsinki, former Professor in Commercial Law at Hanken School of Economics, and President of the Board of the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Clauwaert, Stefan
Stefan Clauwaert is a Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

Photo courtesy of the ETUI.

Lörcher, Klaus
Klaus Lörcher is the former Legal and Human Rights Advisor of the European Trade Union Confederation and former Legal Secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union, Germany.

Schömann, Isabelle
Isabelle Schömann is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

Photo courtesy of the ETUI.

Niklas Bruun is Professor of Law at the Hanken School of Law, Helsinki.
Klaus Lörcher is former Legal Adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and former Legal Secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union.
Isabelle Schömann is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
Stefan Clauwaert is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

They are all members of the Transnational Trade Union Rights (TTUR) Experts Network of the ETUI.