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Labour Law, Fundamental Rights and Social Europe
About this book
This volume, comprising three parts and ten chapters, all of them peer-reviewed essays, arises from the work of the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies. Its focus is on labour and social security law. The chapters, written by distinguished legal researchers associated with Swedish universities, provide insight into a range of topical and important developments, seeking new and interesting perspectives. Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1995, and EU law and European law perspectives have been well integrated into Swedish labour law and social security law research. Within the European Social Model and the European Welfare State, Sweden (and to some degree the other Nordic countries as well) can be said to represent a specific system, as regards both labour law and industrial relations and social security law. In terms of influential comparative typologies or models (naturally 'flawed' by a certain element of vagueness and simplification, but also very helpful in analytical and pedagogical respects), Sweden has been described as a representative of, inter alia, a Nordic legal family, a Nordic labour law model, a social-collectivist industrial relations system, a consensual industrial relations system, a social-democratic welfare state regime, a Scandinavian social security law system (a 'sub-group' of the Beveridge system), and a coordinated market economy. But since 1995 EU law and European law perspectives have been extensively integrated into existing Swedish labour and social security law, and the chapters in this book go a long way in illustrating the far-reaching and multifaceted ways in which Swedish law has been 'Europeanised'.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Prelims
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1. Labour Law, the Protection of Fundamental Rights and the Tension between Economic and Social Integration in the EU
- 2. The ILO Acquis and EU Labour Law
- 3. The Right to Collective Action - in Particular the Right to Strike - as a Fundamental Right
- 4. Regulating Posted Work - Before and After the Laval Quartet
- 5. Public Procurement and Labour Law - Friends or Foes?
- Part 2. Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination
- 6. EU Equality Law - Comprehensive and Truly Transformative?
- 7. Troublesome Transformation - EU Law on Pregnancy and Maternity Turned into Swedish Law on Parental Leave
- 8. Flexicurity, Labour Law and the Notion of Equal Treatment
- Part 3. Social Security Law and Free Movement and Coordination in the EU
- 9. The Swedish Parental Benefit in Relation to the EU Rules on Coordination of Social Security Benefits - Is Free Movement of Families Really Achieved?
- 10. The Swedish Social Security Reforms of 2008 and their Impact on the National Sickness Insurance System: Some Reflections from an EU Law and Flexicurity Perspective
- Appendix. The Swedish Labour Court, Judgment No 89/09, Case No A 268/04
- Index