European Labour Law (Law in Context) - Softcover

Bercusson, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521613507 ISBN 13: 9780521613507

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

European Labour Law explores how individual European national legal systems, in symbiosis with the European Union, produce a transnational labour law system that is distinct and genuinely European in character. Professor Brian Bercusson describes the evolution of this system, its national, transnational and global contexts and its institutional and substantive structures. The collective industrial-relations dimension of employment is examined, and the labour law of the EU as manifested in, for example, European works councils is analysed. Important subjects which have traditionally received little attention in some European labour law systems are covered, for example, the fragmentation of the workforce into atypical forms of employment. Attention is also given to the enforcement of European labour law through administrative or judicial mechanisms and the European social dialogue at intersectoral and sectoral levels. This new edition has been extensively updated, as the EU's influence on this area of social policy continues to grow.

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Book Description:

European Labour Law explores how individual European national legal systems, in symbiosis with the European Union, produce a distinctly European transnational labour law system. This extensively updated second edition examines the system's limitations and the challenges it faces as the European Union's influence on this area of social policy grows.

From the Back Cover:

This book has been extensively updated, as the influence of the European Union on this area of social policy continues to grow, with the "opting-in" to the social chapter by the Labour Government at Amsterdam, together with new directives and other initiatives. Economic and monetary union is likely to enhance this influence

It also follows Professor Brian Bercusson's successful first edition on European labour law and its effect, in particular, in the UK. European labor law has now come into its own; this complex distillation of national labour laws has become a transnational labour law system, distinct and genuinely European in character.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521613507
• ISBN 13: 9780521613507
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 764