Employment Policy and the Regulation of Part-time Work in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521840023 ISBN 13: 9780521840026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book originates from the research project 'New discourses in labour law' held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal domestic choices of the legislatures have merged into the 'Open method of co-ordination'. The impact of European employment policies is considered in parallel with the implementation of the Directive on part-time work, thus providing a complete overview of both soft and hard law mechanisms available to national policy-makers. In this 2004 work, the interaction between law and policy emerges as a dynamic and constantly changing process of exchange between national and supranational actors, through the use of concrete examples of lawmaking. Labour law is put forward as being central in the current evolution of European law, and this centrality is presented as a confirmation of innovation and continuity in regulatory techniques.

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Professore ordinario, Faculty of Law, University of Florence. Cassel Professor of Commercial Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor of Employment Law, University of Oxford

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521840023
• ISBN 13: 9780521840026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Sciarra Silvana, Davies Paul, Freedland Mark