Download or read book Differences in Labour Law between Germany and France written by Klaus Degenhardt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are significant differences between labour law in Germany and France that affect both employees and employers. In Germany, labour law is strongly influenced by the principles of the welfare state. It places particular emphasis on the protection of employees, especially through comprehensive co-determination rights of works councils and strict regulation of dismissals. The Dismissal Protection Act ensures that employees can only be dismissed under certain conditions, which guarantees a high level of job security. In addition, collective labour agreements are widespread in Germany and offer additional protection mechanisms. In France, on the other hand, labour law is more centralised and state-controlled. The ‘Code du Travail’ regulates many aspects of working life and provides for strict regulations in some areas, such as working hours and the minimum wage. French labour law is characterised by a high degree of state intervention, which is reflected in the traditionally high importance of trade unions and industrial action. The regulations on the dismissal of employees are also strict, but more flexible compared to Germany, especially after the labour law reforms under President Macron. These differences in labour law reflect the different historical, social and political developments in the two countries. While the principle of social partnership and decentralisation is paramount in Germany, French labour law is characterised by strong state regulation and centralism. An understanding of these differences is essential for companies and professionals operating in both countries in order to correctly fulfil the respective labour law requirements and avoid conflicts.

Download or read book Differences in Labour Law between Germany and Spain written by Thomas Murrhardt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book ‘Labour Law Differences between Germany and Spain’ offers a comprehensive analysis of the labour law regulations in both countries in comparison. It takes an in-depth look at the main differences in all relevant areas, such as employment contracts, protection against dismissal, working hours and collective agreements, and also addresses the specific characteristics and challenges arising from the different national legal systems. In Germany, the labour market is highly regulated, with a particular focus on comprehensive protection against dismissal and strict regulations on working hours. In contrast, Spanish labour law is more flexible, particularly with regard to fixed-term employment contracts and the implementation of dismissals. This flexibility offers employers more room for manoeuvre, but often comes at the expense of job security for employees. The book also examines the social security systems in Germany and Spain and analyses their influence on the structure of labour relations. It becomes clear that German legislation is strongly orientated towards the protection of employee rights, while the Spanish system tends to focus more on economic flexibility. This work is therefore an indispensable reference work for anyone who needs an in-depth and lasting understanding of the differences in labour law between Germany and Spain. It contributes significantly to a better understanding of the complexities of the international labour law landscape and how to respond effectively.

Download or read book The Making of Labour Law in Europe written by B. A. Hepple and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1986 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sources of Labour Law written by Tamás Gyulavári and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labour law has traditionally aimed to protect the employee under a hierarchy built on constitutional provisions, statutory law, collective agreements at various levels, and the employment contract, in that order. However, in employment regulation in recent years, ‘flexibility’ has come to dominate the world of work – a set of policies that reshuffle the relationship among the fundamental pillars of labour law and inevitably lead to degrading the protection of employees. This book, the first-ever to consider the sources of labour law from a comparative perspective, details the ways in which the traditional hierarchy of sources has been altered, presenting an international view on major cross-cutting issues followed by fifteen country reports. The authors’ analysis of the changing hierarchy of labour law sources in the light of recent trends includes such elements as the following: the constitutional dimension of labour rights; the normative intervention by the State; the regulatory function of collective bargaining and agreements; the hierarchical organization of labour law sources and the ‘principle of favour’; the role played by case law in both common law and civil law countries; the impact of the European Economic Governance; decentralization of collective bargaining; employment conditions as key components of global competitive strategies; statutory schemes that allow employees to sign away their rights. National reports – Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States – describe the structure of labour law regulations in each legal system with emphasis on the current state of affairs. The authors, all distinguished labour law scholars in their countries, thus collectively provide a thorough and comprehensive commentary on labour law regulation and recent tendencies in national labour laws in various corners of the globe. With its definitive analysis of such crucial matters as the decentralization of collective bargaining and how individual employment contracts can deviate from collective agreements and statutory law, and its comparison of representative national labour law systems, this highly informative book will prove of inestimable value to all professionals concerned with employment relations, labour disputes, or labour market policy, especially in the context of multinational workforces.

Download or read book Differences in Labour Law Between Germany and Austria written by Thomas Huber and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trends in European Social Legislation Between the Two World Wars written by Alexander Lorch and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Job Security in America written by Katharine G. Abraham and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the onset of the recession in 1990, job security has moved to the forefront of labor market concerns in the United States. During economic downturns, American employers rely heavily on layoffs to cut their work force, much more than do their counterparts in other industrialized nations. The hardships imposed by these layoffs have led many to ask whether U.S. workers can be offered more secure employment without burdening the companies that employ them. In this book, Katharine Abraham and Susan Houseman address this question by comparing labor adjustment practices in the United States, where existing policies arguably encourage layoffs, with those in Germany, a country with much stronger job protection for workers. From their assessment of the German experience, the authors recommend new public policies that promote alternatives to layoffs and help reduce unemployment. Beginning with an overview of the labor markets in Germany and the United States, Abraham and Houseman emphasize the interaction of various government policies. Stronger job security in Germany has been accompanied by an unemployment insurance system that facilitates short-time work as a substitute for layoffs. In the United States, however, the unemployment insurance system has encouraged layoffs and discouraged the use of work-sharing schemes. The authors examine the effects of job security on the efficiency and equity of labor market adjustment and review trends in U.S. policy. Finally, the authors recommend reforms of the U.S. unemployment insurance system that include stronger experience rating and an expansion of short-time compensation program. They also point to the critical link between job security and the system of worker training in Germany and advocate policies that would encourage more training by U.S. companies.

Download or read book Collective Bargaining and Wages in Comparative Perspective written by Roger Blanpain and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkably, the core element of labour relations?wage determination?has been excluded from the European social dialogue about harmonisation of working conditions and national systems of social security. The present study responds by analysing the prospects of building up structures of wage formation in Europe through a reevaluation of collective bargaining and collective agreements as they exist under the law of the most industrialized Member States. The impetus for the study is the widely debated crisis of the system of concluding regional collective agreements on wages. Social partners seem to have been trapped in fruitless conflicts on how the system must be reformed. It has become obvious that no party concerned employers, trade unions, the state has the capacity to resolve the growing difficulties of collective wage formation. In an introductory essay by the distinguished editors, this important study takes the situation in Germany, the most prominent manifestation of this European crisis, as its starting point. Then, academic experts from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden describe comparable problems in their own countries, detail approaches to dealing with them, and provide a critical commentary, including judgements and suggestions in relation to the German case. Then follows a reexamination of the situation in Germany in the light of the experience of the other countries. A final chapter outlines some preliminary interpretations of European prospects. Salient issues investigated include the following: the erosion of such ideological and legal categories and concepts as `dependent work, `solidarity', `subsidiarity' and `social self-regulation' as preconditions of traditional collective bargaining structures at national level; the decreasing membership of the bargaining partners on both sides; the shrinking rate of employees covered by collective agreements; attempts to establish a national social pact; increasing competition on global markets; decentralizing management strategies, including the abandonment of collective bargaining; and, individualized employees. The authors examine the various state structures to determine if the legal and institutional developments of the different national systems of collective bargaining constitute starting points for mutual learning in order to meet the new challenges. This leads to a discussion of which practices are successful in their original environment, and how these practices might adapt to other systems in other countries.

Download or read book Global Workplace written by Roger Blanpain and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first casebook covering both international and comparative labor and employment law is characterized by its authorship by prolific, respected scholars, all of whom have taught law outside the United States. A solid conceptual framework compares national laws dealing with individual collective employment rights, including antidiscrimination law and privacy law, and considers the systems used to resolve labor and employment disputes in the context of international labor law. A sweeping coverage of international labor law considers the International Labour Organization, NAFTA and other bilateral trade agreements that include labor standards, and the European Union. In addition, The Global Workplace explores transnational corporations' self-regulatory efforts (or codes of conduct,) and the mechanisms for pursuing international labor standards in United States courts. Comparisons are drawn among the laws of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, Japan and India. Exploring the similarities and the differences among various approaches to the employment relationship allows students to better understand and evaluate the approach each country takes, and helps them develop a normative approach to labor and employment law. National legal materials are presented within historical and cultural context. Hallmark features of The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law: First casebook covering both international and comparative labor and employment law Authorship o prolific, respected scholars o all of the authors have taught law outside the United States Conceptual framework o compares national laws dealing with individual collective employment rights o including antidiscrimination law and privacy law o considers the systems used to resolve labor and employment disputes in the context of international labor law Broad coverage of international labor law o International Labour Organization o NAFTA and other bilateral trade agreements that include labor standards o the European Union o comparison of the laws of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, Japan and India o transnational corporations' self-regulatory efforts (or codes of conduct) o mechanisms for pursuing international labor standards in United States courts Explores the similarities and the differences among various approaches to the employment relationship o allows students to better understand and evaluate the approach each country takes o helps develop a normative approach to labor and employment law o national legal materials are contextualized with historical and cultural issues

Download or read book Constitutional Framework of European Labour Law in Italy France Germany Portugal and Spain written by Luís Gonçalves da Silva and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges that labour law currently faces are well known. The emergence of new forms of work and the growing importance of technology in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are important tests of the resilience of this field of law and its function: regulating the labour market. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly important to examine the fundamentals of labour law, especially how subordinate labour is addressed in various countries’ constitutions, in order to focus the analysis of the new phenomena affecting labour relations on their fundamental frameworks.In this context, this book puts forward an overarching framework that reflects how the Italian, German, French, Portuguese, and Spanish constitutions view labour in terms of both collective and individual relations – particularly the right to collective bargaining, the right to strikes and lock-outs, job security, and the right to remuneration – without losing sight of each Constitution's historical and political context.The aim of this book is therefore to provide an overview of the labour law frameworks in the constitutions of these legal systems and to show, by means of practical examples, how the law concretely implements them. Accordingly, it provides notes on the legal treatment of the topics analysed, serving as a practical guide for the study of these matters in the respective jurisdictions.This book will be of interest to all students and scholars of labour law looking for an overview of the topics covered in all five jurisdictions.

Download or read book Beyond Employment written by Alain Supiot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the English edition of what has become widely known as 'The Supiot Report' - a bold and far-reaching look at the changing nature of work initiated by the EC. It takes as its starting point the profound changes that have taken place in the underlying employment relationship and associated human resource practices over the past twenty years. These developments are placed in their economic, social, institutional, and legal contexts. Competitive pressures on firms, the search for greater efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of public services, the changing role of women in society, and the desire for greater choice on the part of individuals are all important motives for change. The legal framework and the structures and organizations which represent the interests of workers and employers must respond to these changes. Drawing on illustrations from a number of European countries, the book suggests that the legal framework should encourage greater collaboration in the workplace, particularly over issues such as training. But it should also place work within its social context and facilitate genuine choices by individuals.

Download or read book Employment Labor Law in Germany written by Stefan Lingemann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an international comparison, German employment and labor law is considered to be complex and impenetrable. It is laid down in numerous individual laws and, moreover, is based substantially on case law in respect of many decisive issues. This book offer"

Download or read book Flexicurity in Austria and Germany is a floor of rights for agency workers necessary written by Olivia Homolatsch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: Gut, University of Amsterdam (Labour Law), course: International Labour Law, language: English, abstract: Agency work is an embodiment of the ‘Flexicurity’ – issue: It is flexible due to its uncomplicated usage and fast availability in companies, but it is strictly regulated in order to provide sufficient security for the workers employed. It was created by the demand in the market for a more flexible method of utilization of the available of workforce, but the need to provide for security of the employee especially in this form of work was always recognized by the trade unions. Formerly called a ‘modern form of slave work’ it is now recognized as legal and its necessity is not anymore contested. The share of temporary work in Europe saw a growth of 10% between 1991 and 1998 and it is believed to continue to grow. In the overall employment its share is still small: in 1998 a mere 1.4% of the total employment in Europe was agency work, but its dynamics and fluctuation of workforce makes it an important factor in the labour market. Agency work is an important part of the European labour policy as the Social Agenda recommended stimulating the creation of quality jobs, diversifying forms of employment and reconciling flexibility and security. Agency work is not equally spread in Europe: Around 80% of its workforce is employed in 4 countries: the Netherlands, France, Germany and the UK. The methods of regulation of agency work differ considerably between the Member States: Germany and Austria have specific definitions of and regulations for temporary work which mainly cover the relationship between the three partners. Denmark, the role model in terms of ‘Flexicurity’, only has a limited regulation while France, Italy, Belgium et al. have regulated agency work in detail covering not only the relationship but also the status of temporary workers. All over Europe different strategies have been employed to regulate this type of atypical work providing for more or less flexibility or security. On the European level a directive has been drawn up, that provides for significantly less protection than granted in Germany and Austria. The first intentions to regulate the matter are found in the 1980ies.

Download or read book Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations written by Roger Blanpain and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference book and textbook comprising a comparison of labour law and reviewing trends in labour relations - constitutes an important information source regarding definitions, covers the role of ILO and the EC, multinational enterprises, international trade union federations and national level trade unionism, discusses freedom of association, employers organizations, dispute settlement over rights and interests, categories of workers, discrimination in employment, etc., and includes a labour contract model. Bibliographys.

Download or read book Comparative Labour Law Principles and Methods Industrial Relations Inindustrialized Market Economies written by Greg Bamber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-06-22 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparativism is no longer a purely academic exercise but has increasingly become an urgent necessity for industrial relations and legal practitioners due To The globalisation of the economy, The massive introduction of new information technology, The growth of multinational enterprises And The impact of international and regional organizations aspiring to harmonize rules. the growing need for comprehensive, up-to-date and readily available information on labour law and industrial relations in different countries led To The publication of the International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations, In which almost 70 international and national monographs have been published thus far. This book goes a step further than the Encyclopaedia inasmuch as most of the chapters provide comparative and integrated thematic treatment. Our aim is to describe the salient characteristics and trends in labour law and industrial relations in the contemporary world. Encouraged by the warm reception of the first six editions, we hope that also the seventh edition will serve as a textbook and reference work to facilitate the task of teachers and students of comparative labour law and industrial relations. We hope, too, that the book will provide labour lawyers, HRM and industrial relations specialists with the necessary insights to cope with a world which is increasingly international.

Download or read book Differences in Labour Law between Germany and Canada written by Thomas Murrhardt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative insight into the labour law systems of Germany and Canada, two countries with different legal traditions and approaches. It examines how in Germany a highly centralised system with clear legal requirements offers employees extensive rights and protections, while Canada has a decentralised, more flexible structure of labour law due to its federal structure. Particular emphasis is placed on the federal principle in Canada, where the provinces and territories set their own labour law standards. This decentralisation leads to considerable differences in regulations on minimum wages, working hours, protection against dismissal and holiday entitlements - depending on the region in question. The book shows the consequences of this diversity and highlights the advantages, such as adaptability to regional needs, but also the challenges associated with this legal fragmentation, such as the difficulty of enforcing the law and the mobility of workers. The detailed comparison shows how strongly employee rights in Germany are protected by statutory regulations and collective co-determination, while in Canada greater flexibility for employers and a stronger role for individual employment contracts dominate. This work is aimed at those affected and anyone wishing to gain a sound understanding of the differences and similarities between these two systems - and how these differences influence the dynamics of labour markets, the relationship between employers and employees and social security in both countries.

Download or read book Employer Sanctions written by Philip Martin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: