New Labour Laws in Old Member States - Trade Union Responses to European Enlargement

This book compares the ways in which trade unions in five EU member states have responded to increased migration.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The national context: historical developments; 3. Europeanisation and European labour law; 4. Europeanisation and the CJEU; 5. The national context: trade unions, migrant workers and the European Union enlargements; 6. Austria; 7. Germany; 8. Ireland; 9. Sweden; 10. The UK; 11. Analysis of trade union responses; 12. Trade unions, new member state workers and Europeanisation: effects and opportunities; 13. The kind of laws the unions ought to want; 14. Conclusion.

About the author

Rebecca Zahn is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde. From 2010 to 2011 she held a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence. She serves as the Labour Law Section Convenor for the Society of Legal Scholars and is the elected Secretary of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies.

Summary

The EU's Eastern enlargements have had a profound impact on the regulation of labour law in Europe. This book explores how trade unions in five member states have responded, and could respond, to the effects of the enlargements, and in particular to the increased migration of workers across borders.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Zahn, Rebecca (University of Strathclyde) Zahn, Zahn Rebecca
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107037335
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03733-5
• No. of pages: 374
• Series: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy; Cambridge Studies in European; Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / Environmental, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, EU (European Union), Environment law, Employment & Labour Law, Employment and labour law: general, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples