The growing conflict between European uniformity and national flexibility
Subtitle: the case of Danish flexicurity and European harmonisation of working conditions
By: Jens Kristiansen ; translated by Steven Harris
Publisher: DJØF Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Copenhagen, Denmark
Language: eng
Translated from: dan
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9788757419733; 9788757498608
Subjects: Labor laws and legislation; Manpower policy; Collective bargaining; Law and legislation
Work titles: Aftalemodellen og dens europæiske udfordringer
Description: In recent years, the Danish flexicurity model has attracted attention from the European Union as a successful way of combining a flexible labor law regime with generous social protection of employees and an active labor market policy. However, the Danish model has itself come under pressure from ever increasing EU harmonization of working conditions. This book examines the pressure put on the flexible Danish labor law system by EU labor law directives and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The analysis highlights the increasing tension between, on the one hand, the flexibility that the directives aim to allow individual Member States and, on the other hand, the uniform interpretation and application of the principles of which the CJEU is an exponent.--
Notes: "Based on a number of studies published in Aftalemodellen og dens europæiske udfordringer in 2013"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: The collective bargaining system; title: The role of the state in the labour market; title: The political compromise between European rules and national flexibility; title: The unifying role of the Court of Justice of the European Union; title: The adjustment of the Danish collective bargaining; title: The changing role of the courts in relation to labour law; title: Summary; title: Annex A: Searching for case reports on the website of the Court of Justice of the European Union.