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The regulation of working conditions in the Member States of the European Union
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Book : The regulation of working conditions in the Member States of the European Union Language : English Library : Health-Safety-Environment Publish Place : Belgium ISBN : 92-828-3393-3 Volume : 1 Publish Date : January 1999 Publisher : European Commission Book Type : Book Book Number : 1882 |
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INDEX
İÇİNDEKİLERNotes on Contributors Tables
Acronyms
Part I Regulation of Individual Employment Relationships . .
TITLE I: THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP AND THE : Chapter 1: The Contract of Employment
a) General definitions
b) Capacity to contract
i) Minors
ii) Spouses
iii) Elderly persons
c) Consent, object and cause
d) Form and proof of contract
Chapter 2: The Parties
a) The worker or employee
i) General definition
ii) Blue-collar and white-collar workers
iii) Supervisory or leading personnel
iv) Excluded persons
v) Special categories
vi) Foreign workers
vii) Disabled persons
b) The employer
c) Groups of enterprises
d) The enterprise, undertaking or establishment
TITLE II: RECRUITMENT
Chapter 1: Freedom to Recruit
a) General freedom to recruit
b) Limitations on the freedom to recruit
i) Constitutional rights of equal treatment
ii) EEC Directive 76/207 on equal treatment
Hi) Free movement of workers
iv) Trade union membership
v) Non-EC nationals
vi)Priority groups
vii) State intervention
viii) Works councils
ix) Collective agreements
x) Rights to privacy
xi) Rehabilitation of offenders
Chapter 2: Probation Period
a) Form
b) Duration and conclusion of probation period
Chapter 3: Non-Standard Employment Contracts
a) Fixed-term contracts
i) Specific requirements
ii) Duration
iii) Renewal
iv) Conversion
v) Administrative involvement
vi) Representation
b) Temporary work contracts
i) General approaches
» ii) Restrictions
Hi) Legal sanctions
c) Part-time employment contracts
i) General definitions
ii) Representation rights
d) Job-sharing
* e) Casual/intermittent employment
f) Solidarity contracts
g) Community programme contracts
h) Homeworking
i) Apprenticeship contracts
TITLE III: CONTENT AND EXECUTION OF EMPLOYMENT Chapter 1: Job Content
a) Job classification systems
i) Collective agreements
ii) Legislation
b) Good faith
c) Obligation to observe secrecy
d) Exclusive service
e) Restraint of trade
f) Workers' inventions
i) Types of invention
ii) Property rights
in) Compensation
Chapter 2: The Employer's Prerogatives
a) Power of management
b) Disciplinary power
c) Duty to provide protection
d) Liability
Chapter 3: Working Time
a) Limits on the duration of working time
b) Flexibility of working time
c) Night work
d) Overtime
i) Limits on the number of hours worked
ii) Pay rates and time off in lieu
e) Weekly rest periods
f) Public holidays
g) Paid annual leave
Chapter 4: Remuneration
a) Sources of pay determination
b) Minimum wages
i) Statutory national minimum wages
ii) General minimum wages by collective agreement . .
iii) Specific minimum wages for sectors of industry
Chapter 5: Modification of Working Conditions
a) Modification by mutual consent
b) Modification on the initiative of the employee
c) Modification on the initiative of the employer
i) Legislation
ii) Collective agreements
iii) Individual contracts
iv) Implied clauses
d) Legal sanctions
Chapter 6: Decentralisation of Work
a) Borrowed workers
b) Subcontracting
c) Movement of employees within groups of companies . . .
d) Homework
Chapter 7: Suspension of Employment Contract
a) "Force majeure"
b) Suspension by the employer
c) Suspension by the employee
i) Illness
ii) Maternity
Hi) Military service
iv) Trade union activities
v) Public activities
vi) Parental leave
vii) Sabbatical and educational leave
TITLE IV: SETTLEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL LABOUR DISPUTES Chapter 1: Conciliation, Mediation, Arbitration
Chapter 2: Court Procedures
a) Ordinary courts
b) Labour courts
c) Industrial tribunals
Chapter 3: Labour Inspectorate
a) Generalist systems
. b) Specialist systems
Part n Termination of the Employment Contract
TITLE I: INDIVIDUAL DISMISSALS
Introduction
Chapter 1:Motivation for and Justification of the Dismissal by the Employer
Chapter 2: Role of the Employee Representatives
Chapter 3. Serving a Term of Notice
Chapter 4: Other Forms of Compensation
Chapter 5: Role of the Government
Chapter 6: Remedies: Compensation or Reinstatement
TITLE II: COLLECTIVE DISMISSALS
Chapter 1:Definition
Chapter 2: Informing the Administrative Authorities
Chapter 3: Informing and Consulting Employee Representatives
Chapter 4: Compensation
TITLE III: PROTECTED GROUPS
Chapter 1: Pregnant Employees
Chapter 2: Sick Employees
Chapter 3: Employees on Military Service
Chapter 4: Employee Representatives
CONCLUSIONS
Part III Collective Determination of Working Conditions
TITLE I:THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
Introduction
Chapter 1:Parties to the Collective Agreement Chapter 2: Negotiating Rights and Obligations Chapter 3: Levels of Collective Bargaining
Chapter 4: Content of the Collective Agreement
a) The normative part
b) The obligatory part
Chapter 5: Binding Effect
Chapter 6: Duration
Chapter 7: Extension of the Normative Part
Chapter 8: Coverage
Conclusions
TITLE II: COLLECTIVE DISPUTES
Introduction
Chapter 1: Definitions
Chapter 2: Prevention and Settlement of Disputes
a) Conciliation and mediation
b) Arbitration
Chapter 3: Intervention by the Courts
Chapter 4: Strikes
a) Freedom or right
b) Lawful and unlawful strikes
Chapter 5: Lock-outs
Conclusions
Introduction
Chapter 1: M andatory and Voluntary Systems
Chapter 2: Machinery of Participation
a) Employee representation on managerial and supervisory bodies
b) Works councils
c) Shop stewards and other employee representatives
d) Other information and consultation rights
Conclusions
Part IV Occupational Health and Safety
Introduction
TITLE I: LEGAL CONTROLS IN MEMBER STATES
Constitutional Provisions
Principal Statute
Rights and duties of employers and employees
TITLE II: IMPACT OF THE EEC FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE
General duties of Employers
Obligations of Workers
Provision of Information and Training
Right to Stop Work
TITLE III: WORKPLACE ORGANISATION ON HEALTH AND SAFETY
Workplace Committees
