Archive | January, 2011

Family Rights + ECHR

24 Jan

Just a short post this week. An interesting article on family rights and the ECHR which shows the importance the court is now putting on Article 8 (respect for private and family life) is HERE it’s by Helen Stalford.

Social Rights + The Worker

18 Jan

Happy New Year!! Welcome to semester 2 of European Law.  For the first part of the semester (6 weeks) the focus will be on Social Rights and the Worker which is a clearly defined topic on its own.  At the end of the 6 weeks there will be a piece of coursework to be completed (details to follow) and will take the form of an in-class test.  Hope you enjoy it.  Below is an introduction to the topic with (as always) some useful links.

Social rights and the rights of the worker have been adopted by the EU in many forms over the past couple of decades.  The Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers (find it HERE), adopted on 9 December 1989 by a declaration of all Member States, with the exception of the United Kingdom, established the major principles on which the European labour law model is based and shaped the development of the European social model in the following decade. The fundamental social rights declared in the Community Charter are further developed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (find it HERE) that have become legally binding with the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon (find it HERE).

Under the Charter EU members States are obliged to provide for the fundamental social rights of workers under the following headings:

  • Freedom of movement (Articles 1 to 3)
  • Employment and remuneration (Articles 4 to 6)
  • Improvement of living and working conditions (Articles 7 to 9)
  • Social protection (Article 10)
  • Freedom of association and collective bargaining (Articles 11 to 14)
  • Vocational training (Article 15)
  • Equal treatment for men and women (Article 16)
  • Information, consultation and participation for workers (Articles 17 to 18)
  • Health protection and safety at the workplace (Article 19)
  • Protection of children and adolescents (Articles 20 to 23)
  • Elderly persons (Articles 24 to 25)
  • Disabled persons (Article 26)
  • Member States’ action (implementation) (Articles 27 to 30)

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