About this ebook
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.
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.
About the author
Zane Rasnaca is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Belgium, and Affiliated Member at the Institute for European Law (KU Leuven), Belgium.
Aristea Koukiadaki is Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations at the Department of Law, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, and member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Experts group.
Niklas Bruun is Professor (emeritus) at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, and guest Professor at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Klaus Lörcher is former Legal Adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Belgium, and former Legal Secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Aristea Koukiadaki is Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations at the Department of Law, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, and member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Experts group.
Niklas Bruun is Professor (emeritus) at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, and guest Professor at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Klaus Lörcher is former Legal Adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Belgium, and former Legal Secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union, Luxembourg.
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