While the law on labor relations has proven a certain degree of adaptability to the conditions of a world economy marked by international trade and the appearance of multinational enterprises, the challenges resulting from globalisation seem to be of another order : National labor law can no...

This timely book casts new light on the key issues arising from the contentious debate around the future of the European Social Model. The book brings together leading experts to provide a thorough and well-informed response to the recent developments in European social and labour law and...

This timely book casts new light on the key issues arising from the contentious debate around the future of the European Social Model. The book brings together leading experts to provide a thorough and well-informed response to the recent developments in European social and labour law and...

The research of flexibility in Labour Law by the use of fuzzy and imprecise concepts leads to extremely different and paradoxes evolutions. An analysis of the flexibility and flexicurity mechanisms shows the need of a language of rights. The research of new avenues for the European social...

This paper tries to identify the role of the European Work Council in transnational firms’restructurings in the EU.The European Work Council has a weak position during the crisis but in favourable conditions can have a new role in different directions ( transnationalinformations, action with...

This paper tries to present a synthetic analysis of new social regulatory techniques in the field of Labour Law. They appeared by the economic regional integration or/and to answer to the choc created by globalisation. They can be seen as hard law as well as soft law, national, regional,...

One of the most important effects of the employment’s internationalisation is analysed by the movement of firms in Europe called delocalisation. In France the debate is stressed on redundancy and loss of jobs. For complex reasons, the environment created by the European market and the...

This paper presents an evaluation of the EU reactions facing corporate restructurings. It shows a real mobilisation to find new ways: organisation of a Task Force (EU Commission), Forum with pertinent actors with regional, national and European actors, creation of an anti-globalization Fund,...

This paper explores the EU solidarity place inside the labour relations. The first part scrutinizes the context in which in the EU solidarity can be developed: Solidarity between workers has national roots, no place at the Eu Institutional level, is limited inside the European Social dialogue....

The European Work Council is a transnational actor which represents the workers in European firms. The paper identifies the difficulties and obstacles which limits the powers of EWC (legitimacy in question, content of constitutive agreement, link with national bodies, transnational coordination...