Nicola Countouris

The Changing Law of the Employment Relationship

Comparative Analyses in the European Context

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Produktbeschreibung

Industrialized countries have witnessed a progressive crisis of the regulatory framework sustaining the binary model of the employment relationship based on the subordinate employment/autonomous self-employment dichotomy. This volume provides a comparative account of the development of the employment relationship in four key European countries - the UK, Germany, France and Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780754648000
• ISBN-10: 0754648001
• Artikelnr.: 47777488

Autorenporträt

Nicola Countouris is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading. His current research projects include 'Personal debt in Europe' and 'Public Services in Europe: the Case of Employment Services'.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
The employment relationship and the contract of employment in industrialised societies
Re-shaping the personal scope of labour law: an analysis of current debates in Europe
Atypical employment relationships: a comparative analysis of fixed-term, part-time and temporary agency work in Europe
The ILO notion of the worker and the scope of the employment relationship
The personal scope of application of EC social legislation
EC regulation of atypical forms of work - between employment law and employment policy
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.