The Revision of the Posted Workers Directive: towards a full level playing field?

Robert van der Vlies, LLM & MSc Candidate at Tilburg University.  Extract from draft paper, please do not circulate. March 2018,  Download the Contribution. 1. Introduction  The free provision of services recognises the right for companies, established in one Member State, to provide services in the territory of another Member State.[1] While exercising this economic … Read more

Legislative proposal on the expansion of birth leave for fathers in the Netherlands

Mr. Samiha Said, Lecturer and PhD Candidate in Labour Law at Tilburg Law School. March 2018 Download the Contribution. In February 2018, the Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment (Wouter Koolmees) submitted a draft-proposal for the expansion of birth leave for fathers (‘Wet Invoering Extra Geboorteverlof’). At the moment, fathers are entitled to two … Read more

Dutch Unions Approach On Deliveroo’s Riders: the Riders Union

Robbert Coenmans, PhD Candidate at Tilburg Law School. March 2018, Download the Contribution. Dutch trade union FNV appears to be using Deliveroo as a test case for organizing (young) workers in the platform economy, with a reasonable degree of success. There seems to be some international coordination, seeing as how similar actions are taking place … Read more

An Italian Judgment on Ryanair anti-union behaviour

Giulia Frosecchi, PhD Candidate in International Studies, University of Trento. March 2018, Download the Contribution. In several occasions, the Italian Courts have dealt with cases concerning Ryanair employment relationships; especially, they have widely addressed the issue of the applicable law for social security provision for workers. The legal uncertainties that had triggered such trials have … Read more

Pushing the Boundaries: How the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) Innovated its Strategies for Representing Amazon Workers

Marta D’Onofrio, Graduate Research Fellow at University of Eastern Piedmont. March 2018, Download the Contribution. Amazon, the leading company in the e-commerce sector, is an interesting case study to show how industrial relations, together with its fundamental institutions, are daily challenged by the decisions made within giant corporations. The main problem lies in the fact … Read more

Against the banning of strikes in the Turkish metal industry

Letter of concern: the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkey banning strikes in the metal industry Download the letter by ELW partner organisation ELDH (ELDH Against the banning of strikes in the Turkish metal industry) Mr. Prime Minister, I am writing this letter to you on behalf of ELDH www.eldh.eu, which represents lawyers … Read more

Documentation (available papers) – European Union, Brexit – the future of workers’ rights – European Conference, 11 November 2017, London

European Conference, 11th November 2017, London, Diskus Centre at Unite, 128 Theobald’s Road, Holborn, London, WC1X 8T 

 

EU Brexit Workers Rights – conference handout

The programme with the available speeches:

09h30 – 10h00 Opening:

  • John Hendy Q.C., Institute for Employment Rights IER   
  • Rose Keeping, Regional Industrial Officer, Unite the Union
  • Prof. Bill Bowring, ELDH President

10h00 – 11h45 1.       The Future of Trade Union Rights, social rights (collective labour law, for a social Europe instead of a “social pillar):

  • Esther Lynch, Confederal Secretary of ETUC, Brussels: For a Pillar of enforceable and universal social rights slides
  • John Hendy QC, barrister, London (IER): The dilemma for trade union rights in Britain: caught between the EU and Free Trade Agreements speech
  • Lorenzo Fassina, Rome (Head of the legal office of CGIL): CGIL’s strategy for defending and increasing individual and collective rights in Italy
  • Marthe Corpet, CGT, Confederation Policy Advisor – International Department, Paris: Trade union rights in France under attack – CGT strategy speech

12h00 – 13h30 2.       How to create more security for workers  (concepts on national and European level for individual labour law for domestic and migrant workers)

  • Klaus Lörcher, Germany, former ETUC legal advisor, former Legal Secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union: The role of the European Social Charter for the protection of (migrant) workers’ rights, in particular after Brexit speech slides, speech
  • Ms. Dr Sanja Cukut Krilic, Research Fellow, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia: Insecurities and vulnerabilities of migrant and posted workers: the need for information provision slides, speech
  • Sergey Saurin, Centre for Social and Labour Rights (CSLR), lawyer, Moscow: The impact of European labour standards on Russian labour law and enforcement practice

4h15 – 16h00 3.       How to defend the rights of refugees and migrants. The impact of Brexit and EU policy.

  • Frances Webber, Institute of Race Relations: Brexit, refugees and the hostile environment speech
  • Lionel Crusoé, lawyer, Paris: The effect of Brexit on refugees and forced migrants
  • Karl Kopp, Director of European Affairs, PRO ASYL, Frankfurt/Main: Perspectives for the defence of Human Rights for Refugees in Europe. The impact of Brexit. draft outline
  • Alison Harvey, barrister, London: The trafficked and the new undocumented post Brexit speech

16h15 – 18h00 4.       European Democracy and human rights – between (Br)Exit and the rule of exception (How to develop European Democracy, how to fight non-democratic developments in EU states;):

  • Prof. Andreas Fisahn, Bielefeld: : The lack of democracy and the future of the union speech
  • Prof. Steve Peers, Essex
  • Dr. Marco Inglese, Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland: The European Citizens’ Initiative: an effective tool to boost democratic participation? speech
  • Julian Bild, Solicitor: Anti-trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (speaking in a personal capacity): The EU: A help or hindrance? speech

European Conference – European Union, Brexit – the future of workers’ rights – 11 November 2017, London

Register now: download registration form Download complete programme 11th November 2017, London, Diskus Centre at Unite, 128 Theobald’s Road, Holborn, London, WC1X 8T 09h30 – 10h00 Opening: ELDH/Haldane: Prof. Bill Bowring, ELDH President Unite: N.N. 10h00 – 11h45 1.       The Future of Trade Union Rights, social rights (collective labour law, for a social Europe instead … Read more

Documentation of the European Labour Law conference – SOCIAL DUMPING AND RECENT CHALLENGES FOR LABOUR LAW IN EUROPE REGAINING THE INITIATIVE

European Labour Law Conference – Florence, 12- 13 May, 2017

Pictures taken at the conference

Video recording of the speeches held at the conference as far as available

1st day

1) A. Loffredo https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RZlBFZXB6WEMzTEE

2) F. Durante https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RTGdXTFRkWndQWWs

3) M. Schubert https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RRGE3R05vMkdpTzQ

4) J. L. Wabant https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RVnJKYXRLanVRUHM

5) A. Jacobs https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RU1hjbXFBR1pJUTQ

6) A. B. Grau https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RQjRPR0xCS3dVUHM

8) G. Orlandini https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RUVVmWXdibDJBTUE

9) M. Houwerzijl https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4ReDJVTHI5cVFzaUE

10) Q&A Orlandini – Houwerzijl https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RZEpLSnB4d2ExaEU

 2nd day

1) J. Cremers https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4Rc3JtMEpLY2JTUTQ

2) R. Helm https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RaFVwbEFoUXRGdUE

3) R. Buschman https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RMDZlejh4NXc4eEk

4) W. Daubler https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RcHFjOXNtbmZraVk

5) Q&A Daubler https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RWnJicmVmZjR3M3M

6) J. Hendy https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RRy1BdFkwUkRUcFE

7) E. Lynch https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RMGdOS0F5bUtTRkU

8) A. Lassandari https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RM2xwdnJWeExBTDQ

9) S. Camusso https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kPPeHW0Z4RWU4tX200TVJEb1E

 

ELW Press Release

The speakers and their papers as far as available (below)

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 European and International policies CGIL

Michael Schubert – lawyer, Freiburg, ELW-Network

COLLECTIVE RIGHTS – RECENT CHALLENGES

Chair:  Thomas Schmidt – lawyer, Secretary General ELDH, Dusseldorf

The right to strike and atypical worker / new forms of work (Prof. Dr. A.T.J.M. Antoine Jacobs, Tilburg University) Jacobs – speech – EN

Criminalisation of trade unionists (Professor Dr. Antonio Baylos Grau, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
Baylos – abstract -IT, Baylos – abstract – EN

The case of Uber (Dr. Valerio De Stefano, Bocconi University, Milan)

coffee/tea break

SOCIAL DUMPING

Chair: Silvia Rainone – PhD candidate, Tilburg University

Social dumping and posting of workers (Professor Dr. Giovanni Orlandini University of Siena)
Orlandini – speech – IT,  ORLANDINI speech – EN

Social dumping and abusive practices in the transport sector: the crucial role of letterbox companies (Professor Dr. Mijke S. Houwerzijl, Tilburg University)
Houwerzijl – speech EN

 

Saturday, 13 May, 09h00 – 13h00

08:45 Welcome coffee/tea

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND SOCIAL RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Chair: Dr. Jan Buelens – lawyer, Brussels

Public procurement and social clauses – an overview within the EU-genesis (Dr. Jan M. B. Cremers, Senior Researcher at Tilburg University and AIAS Amsterdam)
Cremers – speech – EN

Public procurement and health and safety regulations as social clauses – the Munich airport example (Dr. Rüdiger Helm, lawyer, Munich/Capetown)
Helm – Speech

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, University of Kassel)
Buschmann – paper – EN, Buschmann – paper – DE

Short break

Panel – Conclusions for trade unions and labour lawyers – regaining the initiative:

Chair: Professor Dr. Antonio Loffredo, University of Siena

Professor Dr. Wolfgang Däubler, University of Bremen, Reconstruction instead of deregulation in Greece ! – the recommendations  of the Expert Group  for the review of Greek labour market institutions
Daeubler – speech – DE

John Hendy QC, barrister, Chairman of the Institute of Employment Rights (IER), London, A Manifesto for Labour Law: towards a comprehensive revision of workers’ rights
Hendy – speech – EN

Esther Lynch, Confederal Secretary of ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation),  Brussels/Dublin, The so called “social pillar” of the EU Commission Lynch – 

Professor Dr. Andrea Lassandari (University of Bologna), La Carta dei diritti universali del lavoro

Conclusions

Susanna Camusso, Secretary General of CGIL