Effective Enforcement of EU Labour Law - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509944419 ISBN 13: 9781509944415

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

This book by the ETUI Transnational Trade Union Rights Expert Network analyses enforcement as a key element making EU labour law effective or ineffective.

Enforcement is the key ingredient that makes rights effective and ensures compliance. It can make or break a legal system. Despite this, enforcement of EU labour law has received little scholarly attention in recent decades and has rarely been examined in a comprehensive way. This book aims to fill this gap.

Intended for academics and practitioners alike, the book adopts a threefold approach to examine this issue. First of all, it explores the idea of effective enforcement and sets out the wider context in which EU labour law enforcement takes place. Secondly, it analyses how enforcement operates in particular areas, including non-discrimination, health and safety, information and consultation rights, and the rights of migrating workers. Thirdly, it critically assesses the role of specific actors (in particular collective actors like trade unions, as well as whistle-blowers and the European Labour Authority) and settings (public procurement, economic and monetary policy) regulated by EU law. Drawing on the insights produced by these analyses, the book concludes by proposing a comprehensive Draft for a Model Directive on 'Effective Enforcement of EU Labour Law' as an inspiration for policy development and scholarly debate in this area.

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About the Authors

Zane Rasnaca is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute and the affiliated member at the Institute for European law (KU Leuven).

Aristea Koukiadaki is Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations at the Department of Law, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Experts group.

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509944419
• ISBN 13: 9781509944415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Rasnaca Zane, Koukiadaki Aristea, Bruun Niklas, Lörcher Klaus