Health and Safety at Work: European and Comparative Perspective ( Studies in Employment and Social Policy 42) - Hardcover

Eduardo Ales

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 904114661X ISBN 13: 9789041146618

Publisher: Kluwer Law International, 2013

Synopsis

The safety obligation in any employment relationship, enshrined in numerous laws and regulations, must necessarily absorb advances in medicine and technology. The law of health and safety at work is perhaps best understood as an ongoing process engaged in the making of a dynamic and effective regulatory framework able to cope with an ever-changing work environment. This book, an in-depth survey of the current state of health and safety law in Europe represents the work of labour lawyers involved into the Pontignano International Seminars and into the European Working Group on Labour Law (EWL). The seventeen contributing labour lawyers provide national reports from ten EU Member States, along with a chapter on EU law relating to health and safety and a concluding comparative analysis. Among the topics examined are the following: ; the concepts of health , danger , and risk ; employers obligations to inform, evaluate, and monitor; rights and duties of workers representatives with regard to health and safety at work; ; the obligation to carry out a systematic work environment management; reintegration efforts required from the employer and employee; instruments available to help the employer in the proper fulfilment of safety obligations; the interaction between health and safety regulation and the social security system; labour inspection; ; civil, administrative and criminal liability of the employer; specific legislation regarding pregnant women; protection of other vulnerable groups; moral harassment or mobbing ; sexual harassment; work-related stress; ; the concept of pénibilité au travail; effect of a company s hierarchical structure on liability; and domestic workers and home-workers.

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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-06-01 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher:. KLI The safety obligation in any employment relationship. enshrined in numerous laws and regulations. must necessarily absorb advances in medicine and technology The law of health and safety at work is perhaps best understood as an ongoing process engaged in the making of a dynamic and effective regulatory framework able to cope with an ever-changing work environment. This book. an in-depth survey of the current state of health and safety law in Europe represents the work of labour lawyers involved into the Pontignano International Seminars and into the European Working Group on Labour Law (EWL). The seventeen contributing labour lawyers provide national reports from ten EU Member States. along with a chapter on EU law relating to health and . safety and a concluding comparative analysis Among the topic...

About this edition

• Publisher: Kluwer Law International
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 904114661X
• ISBN 13: 9789041146618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 449
• Editor: Eduardo Ales