This article addresses current developments, challenges and discussions concerning the social dimension of the European Union (EU). It deals with freedom of movement and its main challenges; the harmonisation of national legislation, paying special attention to working time and equality; and ends with a short analysis of new frontiers such as climate change.
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This article analyses the scope of ILO Convention No. 111 to determine whether geolocation restrictions on work opportunities via web-based platforms may constitute discrimination within the Convention's scope and whether there are regulatory gaps in the ILO's standard-setting framework. This analysis coincides with the ILO's consideration of whether international labour standards adequately protect platform workers to achieve decent work in the platform economy.
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The drive to reform labour law in line with the principles of decent work has had a major impact on the recent development of Romanian labour law. This article aims to present three directions of this transformation: the process of digitalisation of labour law, the transposition of Directives 2019/1152/EU and 2019/1158/EU, respectively the recent changes in the social dialogue regulation.
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The article is analyzing psychosocial risks from an overall perspective of labour law and social security law. This analysis is based on a systematic legal comparison including different EU member states.
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Restructuring of working hours has been observed in employment in recent years. Working time is one of most regulated issues in labour law, while performance-based employment tends to make the employment relationship independent of the importance of working time. The article discusses this question through the four-day work week.
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Trade unions representing an innovative, open and network-type organisation logic and other alternative and flexible interest representation structures are beginning to emerge. In labour law literature, these phenomena are often referred to as "alternative" trade union activities (i.e. "alt-labour"). This article examines the main legal regulatory challenges of this phenomenon in Hungary.
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This article examines whether there is an a priori hierarchy between EU fundamental market freedoms and basic human rights originated in the constitutional traditions of the Members States focusing on the right to collective bargaining and strike. Irrespectively of the answer, the conflict exists between the competing interests. The inevitable question arises, how shall such collisions be treated.
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