Social Responsibility in Labour Relations. European and Compararive Perspectives

List of contributors.

Introduction:

Part 1 Dilemma’s of European social policy

1. The place and role of comparative labour law in the framework of the European Union Rolf Birk

2. Enforcement of EC labour law: some less felicitous consequences? Sacha Prechal

3. Can a stronger anchoring of European labour law and social security law to Community law guarantee a sustainable European Social Model? Marc Rigaux and Jan Buelens

4. Corporate Social Responsibility and (European) Labour Law, friends or foes? Filip Dorssemont

5. Social Responsibility of Enterprises: A Bridge between Labour and Economic Law Bart Hessel

6. The Coherency of European Social Policy: the ECJ caught between Flexible Employment Policies and upholding European Employment Rights Albertine Veldman

7. Chinese labour law rules viewed with European eyes Wolfgang Däubler

Part 2 Social responsibility and the modern enterprise

8. Life-long-learning as an individual social right Guus Heerma van Voss

9. Workers’ protection in transnational companies Isabelle Daugareilh

10. Transnational corporate social responsibility – some issues with regard to the liability of European corporations for labour law infringements in the countries of establishment of their suppliers Aukje A.H. van Hoek

11. Decent work – fair wages. New questions for European labour law? Ulrike Wendeling-Schröder

12. Enterprise responsibility for sexual harassment in the workplace: comparing Dutch and South African law Darcy du Toit

13. Justifying and applying vicarious liability Marlies Vegter

14. The responsibility of the modern enterprise in the reduction of sickness and the promotion of reintegration of disabled workers Frans Pennings

15. Protection against the termination of a contract of employment – Lessons from a comparison between Dutch and German law Bernd Waas

Part 3 Flexibility and security

16. Mapping out flexicurity pathways in the European Union Ton Wilthagen

17. Modernizing the European Social Model by a ‘Leonine Partnership’: the socially ‘irresponsible’ enterprise in the age of flexicurity Edoardo Ales

18. Adapting work to the worker. The individual and international working time regulations Willem Bouwens and Pauline Burger

19. Fixed-term work in the recent case law of the European Court of Justice Silvana Sciarra

20. Achieving the Fixed-Term Work Directive’s aims: United Kingdom Implementation and Comparative Perspectives Pascale Lorber

21. Dismissal law proposals and the flexicurity strategy Daniel Cuypers and Evert Verhulp

Part 4 Employability and integration of outsiders of the labour market

22. European equality law or: losing sight of the wood for the trees Marjolein van den Brink, Susanne Burri, Jenny Goldschmidt and Titia Loenen

23. Equal treatment and gender justice in corporate policies on social responsibility Eva Kocher

24. Training vouchers and active labour market policy: An easy or uneasy marriage? Erik de Gier

25. The integration of older workers in European labour markets: between macro desires and micro reality Saskia Klosse and Joop Schippers

Part 5 Social dialogue and restructuring of enterprises

26. The employee, the severance payment and the insolvent employer Ferdinand Grapperhaus

27. The proof of the pudding …? Comparison of collective dismissal schemes in view of the Lisbon agenda Juliette Huyzer and Wilco Oostwouder

28. ILO Conventions 135 and 154 and works councils’ powers in making an agreement on labour conditions with the Company Sjef de Laat and Jaap van Slooten

29. Consultation, negotiation and codetermination in Europe: what kind of interactions? Corinne Sachs-Durand

30. The revision of the EU Directive on European works councils in the light of the Treaty of Lisbon Antoine Jacobs

31. Lockout: a Dadaist study of a relic(t) Patrick Humblet

32. Three steps of reflections regarding the Viking and Laval Case: Towards an effective European right to strike Thomas Blanke Conclusions