EU Social and Employment Law. Policy and Practice in an Enlarged Europe

A one-step guide to EU employment law, including related social policy and equality law provisions
Detailed analysis of the latest ECJ case law, as well as legislation
Discusses implications of enlargement for social and employment policy
Clear structure and language provide a very accessible guide to a complex area
Written by a well-known expert in this field
This timely book provides a distinctively broad-based approach to EU employment law, covering related social policy and anti-discrimination measures, as well as a detailed overview of how policy and law are made. It derives from a section in the looseleaf Law of the EU (Vaughan & Robertson, eds), and is made available here in a revised and expanded form for the benefit of those who don't subscribe to the looseleaf. It analyses in detail EU legislation and case law in the areas of collective and individual employment rights, including redundancies, transfers of undertakings, working time, part-time and fixed term and temporary employment. The author further considers the important provisions and case-law concerning equality of treatment on the basis of gender, race, age, disability and religion. EU Social and Employment Law offers essential expertise in this increasingly important and fast changing area of European law.


Readership: Employment law practitioners, in-house counsel, business executives and human resources officers, government officials and academics


Philippa Watson, Barrister, Essex Court Chambers; Visiting Professor, City Law School, London


Table of Legislation
Table of Cases
PART I: GENERAL
1: Introduction
2: Sources
3: Evolution
4: Policy Making
5: The Legislative Process
PART II: SOCIAL POLICY
6: Social Security
7: Disability
8: Corporate Social Responsibility
9: Social Inclusion
PART III: EMPLOYMENT POLICY
10: The Common Employment Policy
PART IV: COLLECTIVE EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
11: Redundancies
12: Transfers of Undertakings
13: Insolvency
14: Information and Consultation
PART V: INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
15: Terms of Employment
16: Paternal Leave
17: Pregnant Workers
18: Young Workers
19: Part-Time Work
20: Fixed Term Employment
21: Temporary Employment
22: Working Time
23: Posting of Workers
PART VI: EQUALITY OF TREATMENT: MEN AND WOMEN
24: Equal Pay
25: Equal Treatment
26: Social Security
27: Occupational Pension Schemes
PART VII: EQUALITY OF TREATMENT: RACE
28: Race
PART VIII: EQUALITY OF TREATMENT: AGE, DISABILITY AND RELIGION
29: Age, Disability and Religion
30: Conclusions