EU Collective Labour Law

Edited by Beryl ter Haar, Professor and Head of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS), University of Warsaw, Poland and Endowed Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands and Attila Kun, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Labour Law and Social Security, Faculty of Law, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (KRE) and Professor, Institute of Human Resources, Hungarian National University of Public Service (NKE), Hungary

Contents:

1 Introduction to EU Collective Labour Law 1
Beryl ter Haar and Attila Kun

PART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND LEGAL
SOURCES OF INFLUENCE
2 EU Collective Labour Law: if any, how? 26
Edoardo Ales
3 Conceptual issues on representation and solidarity 56
Jérôme Porta and Tatiana Sachs
4 Collective bargaining: (not just) a fundamental right 73
Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni
5 The right to strike as a fundamental right 88
Piotr Grzebyk
6 Council of Europe: European Social Charter and European
Convention on Human Rights 101
Elena Gerasimova and Elena Sychenko
7 Collective labour law and the European Union: an ILO
perspective 114
Valérie Van Goethem and Vongai Masocha

PART II SOCIAL DIALOGUE
8 The politics of EU Social Dialogue 132
Paul Copeland
9 Social Dialogue in the EU (legal) 145
Natalie Videbæk Munkholm
10 EU issues on tripartism 163
Jozef Kšiňan
11 European Sectoral Social Dialogue 177
Manuel Antonio García-Muñoz Alhambra
12 European Social Dialogue and Associated Countries 194
Zakaria Shvelidze
13 Social Partners’ involvement in the EU-level social policy
issues, focusing on pensions and unemployment 208
József Hajdú
14 Social Dialogue and Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) in the EU 222
Attila Kun

PART III EMPLOYEES’ INVOLVEMENT AND
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
15.Information and consultation rights 239
Elisabeth Brameshuber
16 European Works Councils 255
Iacopo Senatori and Angela Rauseo
17 The EU and transnational company agreements 275
Beryl ter Haar
18 Collective bargaining in the public sector: different models
in a distinct international framework 292
Alexander De Becker
19 Occupational health and safety – representation and participation 310
Diana Haas and Wolfhard Kohte
20 Board-level representation 325
Daniel Ulber
21 The role of employees (and their representatives) in
company restructuring 342
Teresa Coelho Moreira and David Carvalho Martins
22 The influence of a transfer of undertaking on collective
agreements and employee representation 359
Łukasz Pisarczyk and Katarzyna Wieczorek
23 Collective bargaining and EU competition law 376
Teun Jaspers
24 Collective bargaining and equal treatment 396
Petra Herzfeld Olsson
25 Social partners, labour inspectorates and the enforcement
of the EU’s social dimension 412
Pieter Pecinovsky and Mariagrazia Lombardi

PART IV OUTLOOK AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
26 Overview of common issues and evolution of EU
Collective Labour Law 432
Daiva Petrylaité
27 Re-introducing a human face – the future of EU Collective
Labour Law? 445
Tonia Novitz

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