Invitation to the European Labour Law Conference
Social dumping and recent challenges for labour law in Europe – regaining the initiative
(languages Italian, English, German with simultaneous translation)
Auditorium di Sant’Apollonia, Via S. Gallo, 25, 50129 Firenze,
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Programme (in English) – PDF-Download
Programme (in Italian) – PDF-Download
Programme (in French) – PDF-Download
Friday, 12 May 2017
13h30 until 14h00: Registration and welcome coffee/tea
14h00 – 18h30
- Welcome speeches
- Professor Dr. Antonio Loffredo – University of Siena
- Fausto Durante – Head of International policies CGIL
- Leila Lahssaini – ELW-Network
COLLECTIVE RIGHTS – RECENT CHALLENGES
- The right to strike and atypical worker / new forms of work (Prof. Dr. A.T.J.M. Antoine Jacobs, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands)
- Criminalisation of trade unionists (Professor Dr. Antonio Baylos Grau, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real)
- The case of Uber (Valerio de Stefano, International Labour Office; Bocconi University, Milano)
coffee/tea break
SOCIAL DUMPING
- Social dumping and posting of workers (Professor Dr. Giovanni Orlandini University of Siena)
- Social dumping and abusive practices in the transport sector: the crucial role of letterbox companies (Professor Dr. Mijke S. Houwerzijl, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands)
Saturday, 13 May, 09h00 – 13h00
08:45 Welcome coffee/tea
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND SOCIAL RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
- Public procurement and social clauses – an overview within the EU-genesis (Dr. Jan M. B. Cremers, Senior Researcher at Tilburg University and AIAS, Amsterdam)
- Public procurement and health and safety regulations as social clauses – the Munich airport example (Dr. Rüdiger Helm, lawyer, Munich/Capetown)
- Jurisdiction of the ECJ and the ECtHR supporting shelter by labour law, directives and human rights – an overview ( Rudolf Buschman, Center for legal appeals and European law of the DGB (German Trade Union Confederation), Kassel, Germany)
Short break
Panel – Conclusions for trade unions and labour lawyers – regaining the initiative:
- Chair: Professor Antonio Loffredo, University of Siena
- Professor Dr. Wolfgang Däubler, Bremen, Reconstruction instead of deregulation in Greece ! – the recommendations of the Expert Group for the review of Greek labour market institutions
- John Hendy QC, barrister, Chairman of the Institute of Employment –Right (IER), London, A Manifesto for Labour Law: towards a comprehensive revision of workers’ rights
- Esther Lynch, Confederal Secretary of ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation), Brussels/Dublin, The so called “social pillar” of the EU Commission
- Prof. Dr. Andrea Lassandari (University of Bologna), La Carta dei diritti universali del lavoro
- Conclusions
- Susanna Camusso, Secretary General of CGIL
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Organizers of the conference:
- European Lawyers for Workers – ELW-Network
- European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights – ELDH
- Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro CGIL
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Registration fee
Registration fee:
- Northern Europe: 80 € (ELW members 60 €)
- Southern Europe: 60 € (ELW members 45 €)
- CGIL members: free
- Students: free
Please transfer your registration fee to the ELW-Network bank-account in advance and present the transfer document at the reception desk
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- Beneficiary: ELW
- Address of the bank: Chaussée de Haecht 55, BE – 1210 – Brussels, Belgium
- IBAN BE14 3631 2954 7883
- BIC/SWIFT BBRUBEBB
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