Changing Industrial Relations and Modernisation of Labour Law

by Blanpain, Roger; Weiss, Manfred; Biagi, Marco

• ISBN13: 9789041120083
• ISBN10: 9041120084
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Law Intl

Summary

Thirty-three distinguished authorities in the field of labour and industrial relations law gather here to enhance and complement the work of the late Marco Biagi, a man who, at the time of his violent and untimely death, had shown himself to be the most insightful and committed international scholar in this complex and controversial and, As it proved, even dangerous field. The topics covered range over many of Professor Biagi's special interests, including the following: the formulation of a new basis for labour law that could resolve new issues; employee protection in corporate restructuring; the trend toward individual 'enterprise bargaining'; a new European employment policy and what it might entail; the growing phenomenon of 'flexibilisation'; the effects of an aging workforce; the crucial nexus of free trade, labour, and human rights; the promise of EU enlargement; and protection of part-time workers. There is a lot of insight, innovation, and just clear thinking in this wide-ranging and far-reaching book. it will be of exceptional value to scholars, lawyers, and others concerned with the extensive and unpredictable changes under way in today's world of work.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Curriculum Vitae of Marco Biagi	xi
List of publications of Marco Biagi	xvii
Foreword	xxix
Roger Blanpain
Manfred Weiss
Marco Biagi: The Man and the Master	1	(16)
Michele Tiraboschi
Modernisation of Labour Law and changing Industrial Relations in Latin America	17	(10)
Luis Aparicio-Valdez
Corporate Restructuring and Employee Protection: Japan's New Experiment	27	(16)
Takashi Araki
Modernisation of Labour Law and Industrial Relations: the Age Factor	43	(16)
Ruth Ben-Israel
The Role of the Court of Justice in the making of European Labour Law	59	(8)
Roger Blanpain
Discutendo intorno all'art. 18 dello Statuto dei Lavoratori	67	(26)
Franco Carinci
Modernising Australian Labour Law: Individualisation and the Shift from ``Compulsory'' Conciliation and Arbitration to Enterprise Bargaining	93	(20)
Breen Creighton
Labour-only contracting -- the Norwegian Way	113	(14)
Stein Evju
Lex Laboris -- Quo Vadis? The Swedish Experience	127	(12)
Reinhold Fahlbeck
Law Reform, American Style: Thoughts on a Restatement of the Law of Employment	139	(12)
Matthew W. Finkin
Reflections on the evolving Environment of Industrial Relations	151	(10)
Alan Gladstone
Assessing Employment Policies from an Organic Perspective: the Needed Transition from Job Security and Job Welfare to Personal Security and Welfare	161	(12)
Alvin Goldman
Deregulation and International Regulation: An Asian Perspective	173	(8)
Tadashi Hanami
Four Approaches to the Modernisation of Individual Employment Rights	181	(10)
Bob Hepple
Changing Perspectives on Dismissal Protection	191	(10)
Antoine Jacobs
Pour une Contribution des Universitaires a la Dynamique des Normes Internationales du Travail	201	(16)
Jean-Claude Javillier
The Employment Chapter of the Amsterdam Treaty. Towards a New European Employment Policy?	217	(22)
Berndt K. Keller
Needed: American Leadership for a Global Work and Employment Policy	239	(18)
Thomas A. Kochan
The Contemporary Trends of Labour Law in Western Europe at the Mirror of the EC Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations	257	(12)
Jean-Pierre Laborde
Dispute Settlement Procedures and Flexibilisation of Employment Relations: Remedies against unfair Dismissal under Italian Law	269	(8)
Stefano Liebman
Flexible Rules or Rigid Labour Relations? Some Reflections on French Labour Law faced with Technological, Economic and Contemporary Social Changes	277	(10)
Marie-France Mialon
Do We Need a Social Policy for Europe?	287	(20)
Alan C. Neal
La Nueva Dimension del Derecho del Trabajo	307	(8)
Miguel Rodriguez-Pinero Y Bravo-Ferrer
The Limits on Rationality	315	(20)
Jacques Rojot
The Codification of Russian Labour Law: Issues and Perspectives	335	(18)
Olga Rymkevitch
The Need of Modernising German Labour Law arising from the Ban of Age Discrimination	353	(16)
Marlene Schmidt
Basic Agreements in Poland	369	(12)
Michal Sewerynski
Free Trade v. Labour Rights/Human Rights: Doubts, Definitions, Difficulties	381	(10)
Clyde W. Summers
Dove va il Modello Giapponese di Lavoro?	391	(18)
Yasuo Suwa
Protection of Part-Time Workers in the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities	409	(20)
Enrico Traversa
What can European Governments do for Employment Policies?	429	(10)
Tiziano Treu
Industrial Relations and EU-Enlargement	439	(10)
Manfred Weiss
Japan's Labor Relations Commissions and the Modernization of Industrial Relations	449
Koichiro Yamaguchi