From Labour Law to Social Competition Law?

by Marc Rigaux (Editor), Jan Buelens (Editor), Amanda Latinne (Editor)

Overview

The future of labor law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. The objective of this book is threefold. First, it draws attention to a number of phenomena and processes both within and outside the law that affect the protective mechanisms and essential functions of labor law. Secondly, the book's contributors point out the main causes and the principal consequences. Finally, it reflects the proposed remedies to preserve the essential task of labor law. The objectives are achieved by developing the following four themes: the existential relation between labor law, the labor market, and social competition * the historical tie between labor law and human dignity * the relationship between labor law, market law, and (social) competition law * the risk of a renewed contestation of the dignity of working people. The book provides intellectually challenging ideas for those interested in understanding, explaining, and interpreting labor laws, whether they are scholars, practitioners, judges, policy-makers, or workers and employers. (Series: Publications on Labour Law - Vol. 2)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780682211
Publisher:	Intersentia
Publication date:	02/18/2014
Series:	Publications on Labour Law , #2
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Labour law or social competition law? The right to dignity of working people questioned (once again). Observations on the future of labour law Marc Rigaux 1

Prologue 1

I Labour law, labour market and social competition 2

A A different approach of labour law 2

B Marginal correction of the labour market 3

C Preliminary conditions for correction 3

D The liberalisation of the (labour) market and the lack of adequate social correction at the transnational level 4

II The historical link between labour law and human dignity 4

A The primary function of labour law 4

B The principal fundamental right of human dignity 5

C The (wage earning) worker: from commodity to citizen 5

III Labour law, market law and social competition law 6

A The foundation of liberal society 6

1 The concept of liberal society 6

2 The market as a regulatory mechanism for the satisfaction of social needs 7

3 Arrangements to manage and control systems aimed at the satisfaction of needs 7

4 Freedom and equality in law or freedom and equality in name only? 8

B Work as an object of market law and competition law 8

1 The foundations 8

2 Labour law and the limitations of the freedom of the market and competition 9

3 The liberalisation of the labour market: an existential threat 10

4 The liberalisation of the labour market: an existential threat to labour law 11

IV The right to dignity of working people questioned (once again) 11

A Social correction jeopardised at the international level 11

B Competition between the national systems of social adjustment 12

C In search of an adequate transnational social counterforce 12

Droit du travail ou droit de la concurrence sociale ? De droit à la dignité du travailleur est-il (à nouveau) remis en question? René De Quenaudon 15

Instruments of labour law. It is high time to start wondering whether labour law has not changed into social competition law, meaning that the right to dignity of working people is questioned (once again) Jens M. Schubert 21

I Introduction 21

II Instrument - an ambivalent term 22

III Perspectives 23

IV The cloud 23

V Individual labour law instruments 25

VI Collective labour law instruments 26

VII Other instruments 28

A Instruments in procedural law 28

B Economic instruments 28

C Tort law 28

VIII Classification 29

IX Evaluation and final thoughts 29

Bibliography 30

Les changements juridiques sur le marché du travail externe et interne Jan Buelens 33

I Le changement du mode de production 33

II Quelques exemples des changements de flexibilité interne 34

III Flexibilité externe: Fexemple de la sous-traitance 36

Le droit du travail et les modifications apportees au marché du travail Esteban Martinez 45

I Les changements de la norme sociale de l'emploi 45

II La mobilisation flexible des travailleurs 46

III L'affaiblissement des protections liées au contrat de travail salarié 49

A L'enjeu de la relation d'emploi 50

B Travailler sans limites 51

C Une pluralité d employeurs 53

IV Conclusions 54

Bibliographic 55

Labour law and competition Wolfgang Däubler 57

I Introduction 57

II Competition 57

III Labour law 58

IV Conflict or coexistence? 59

A The U.S. experience 59

B The German experience 60

C Coexistence after the Second World War in Western Europe 60

V The growing importance of the principle of competition 62

VI Attacks on labour law 63

VII Counterattacks? 65

Market rules and the right to strike: a different approach Giovanni Orlandini Filip Dorssemont 67

Introduction 67

I A judicial reappraisal of market rules and the right to strike 70

A Reformulating the issue of horizontal effect 70

B Private sources versus private actions 71

C Employers' behaviour versus trade unions' activities 74

D Collective agreement, collective bargaining and collective actions 78

E Restrictions on collective actions: non-discrimination and protection of third parties 80

F Horizontal direct effect or indirect state liability? 84

II A failed legislative road de lure condendo: The Monti II proposal 86

A Legal basis 86

B The balance of Monti II 88

C Problems of the dispute resolution mechanism 89

D Critique on the alert mechanism 96

III A constitutional pathway 99

A The accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 99

B Prospects of the accession 101

C A social progress clause 103

Conclusions 103

Fundamental social rights: An added value to the protection of workers? The increasing importance of fundamental (social) rights to the development of labour law? Teun Jaspers Willemijn Roozendaal 107

I Introduction 107

II Controversial aspects 109

III The meaning of 'fundamental' social rights 112

IV EU law and respect for fundamental rights 116

A Introduction 116

B The EU legislator and fundamental social rights 116

C The CJEU and fundamental social rights 118

V Competition between individuals and equality rights 122

A Introduction 122

B Protection against discrimination on the grounds of sex 123

C Protection against age and disability discrimination: reconsidering the proportionality test 128

VI Concluding remarks 132

Le droit du travail, la restauration de I'autonomie de la volonté individuelle et la montée de la soft law Fleur Laronze 135

I La realisation du conflit entre 1'autonomie de la volonte individuelle et la soft law 139

A Les conditions d'émergence du conflit 139

1 L'existence du conflit conditionnée a l'articulation entre l'autonomie de la volonté collective et 1'autonomie de la volonté individuelle 139

2 L'existence du conflit conditionnée a l'articulation entre la dimension individuelle et la dimension internationale 140

B Les effets de la reconnaissance du conflit 142

1 Un effet pavlovien 142

2 Un effet secondaire 143

II La résolution du conflit entre l'autonomie de la volonté individuelle etla soft law 143

A La régulation du conflit 144

1 La régulation du conflit par l'application de règies de conflit 144

2 La requalification des normes en conflit par Ie juge 145

B L'anticipation du conflit 146

1 L'anticipation du conflit par la « fusion-absorption » des normes individuelles 146

2 L'anticipation du conflit par la « fusion-integration » des normes individuelles 147

Mutating or dissolving labour law? The fundamental right to dignity of working people questioned (once again) Barbara Kresal 149

I The right to dignity and human rights - why is it so difficult to take them seriously in labour relations? 149

II Current challenges of labour law in the light of the right to human dignity 153

III Conclusion: The way forward - mutating or dissolving labour law? 157

References 158

Human dignity and decent work as ultimate objectives of labour law. Towards 'basic social law' with a labour law component? Kelly Reyniers 161

I Human dignity 161

A A dynamic concept with ethical and philosophical roots 161

B … but also a legal concept 162

II Decent work: a factor of human dignity 165

A An obvious nexus between decent work and human dignity 165

B Decent work; concept 165

1 In general: ensuring the employee's fundamental rights in the best possible way 165

2 Specifically: a means of identifying the ILO's major priorities. 166

C Some remarks from a (Belgian) legal point of view 168

III Labour law as (necessary) instrument to enforce and achieve decent work 169

IV Towards basic social law with a labour law component? 170

A The issue 170

B Labour law… "for everyone who performs labour" 171

C Fundamental rights and international labour standards as incentives to change or extend the personnel scope of labour law 173

D "Labour" as the first application criterion for labour law 173

V Conclusion 174

Labour law or social competition law: some concluding critical remarks Amanda Latinne 175

Exit solidarity, enter labour as a commodity 176

Underpressure 178

Me and my car 180

Sympathy for the corporations 182

Come together 184

Now that we have found out, what are we going to do? 186