Employment Policy and the Regulation of Part-time Work in the European Union
Employment Policy and the Regulation of Part-time Work in the European Union

Author: Silvana Sciarra

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-07-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1139452444

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This book originates from the research project 'New discourses in labour law' held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal domestic choices of the legislatures have merged into the 'Open method of co-ordination'. The impact of European employment policies is considered in parallel with the implementation of the Directive on part-time work, thus providing a complete overview of both soft and hard law mechanisms available to national policy-makers. In this 2004 work, the interaction between law and policy emerges as a dynamic and constantly changing process of exchange between national and supranational actors, through the use of concrete examples of lawmaking. Labour law is put forward as being central in the current evolution of European law, and this centrality is presented as a confirmation of innovation and continuity in regulatory techniques.

Social Partnership in the European Union
Social Partnership in the European Union

Author: H. Compston

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-05-13

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1403900825

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This study examines the extent to which the development and operation of social partnership at EU level can be explained in terms of the logic of self-interest, as opposed to factors such as the influence of ideas or of cultural or ideological values. The editors have assembled a team of international authors with rare expertise, who present fresh and original data based on extensive research interviews with the main players, from the highest level through to those involved in the detail of the negotiations.

Core and Contingent Work in the European Union
Core and Contingent Work in the European Union

Author: Edoardo Ales

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1782258698

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Labour and social security law studies have addressed the topic of the decline of the standard employment relationship mainly from the point of view of the growing number of atypical relationships. Only a limited number of studies have examined the issue from the perspective of the differentiation between core and contingent work. Such an examination is necessary as the increase in contingent work leads to complicated legal questions which vary between European states depending on the type of contingent arrangements that have become most prevalent. This book analyses, using a comparative approach, these different types of contingency from a national and EU perspective touching on the work relationship from a labour as well as a social security point of view. The aim of the book is to identify and analyse those questions adopting an innovative approach and to put forward proposals for safeguarding social cohesion within undertakings and European society.

Quality of Work in the European Union
Quality of Work in the European Union

Author: Ana M. Guillén

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9789052015774

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This collective volume on quality of work in the European Union offers a comprehensive analysis on the current situation of the tensions between work and welfare in Europe, with a special emphasis on employment-related issues. The volume tackles a crucial aspect of employment policies, namely the strengthening of the quality dimension in the decisions taken by policy-makers to foster the performance of the labour market and to combine this orientation with the demands of workers for welfare, protection and a better reconciliation of work and family life. Quality of work has been on the agenda of policy-makers, practitioners and academics for the last few years, promoting a wide debate. The book provides a contribution to this debate and takes into consideration a range of issues associated with the analysis of work quality from an innovative perspective. Relevant subtopics including a conceptual and political analysis of work quality, wage differentials and in-work poverty, gender issues or workers' direct and indirect representation in the firm and its relation with work quality are addressed.

European Union Law
European Union Law

Author: Steve Peers

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-05-24

Total Pages: 1065

ISBN-13: 0192863835

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Written by experts, this innovative textbook offers students a relevant, contextual account of EU law. Under the experienced editorship of Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers, the text draws together a range of expert contributors for rich understanding of each area of the EU law curriculum and to introduce students to key debates in the subject

Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union
Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union

Author: Jens Alber

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-10-15

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 1134095937

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Recent enlargement to the east made the European Union a more diverse social space and brought it into more direct contact with the social and cultural aftermath of communism. The purpose of this book is to help social scientists, policy makers and other observers cope with the unfamiliarity of this new world by bringing together a collection of informative analyses of key domains of social life in the new member states and candidate countries, viewed in comparison both to each other and to the 'old' EU-15. The focus is on social conditions, such as social exclusion, poverty and living conditions, work and labour markets, family and housing. But is also offers accounts of the institutional contexts within which these conditions arise. The analyses makes use of a range of data, including a new data source, the European Quality of Life Survey 2003.

Core EU Legislation 2022-23
Core EU Legislation 2022-23

Author: Paul Drury

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 1509960422

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Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.