A right to care?
Subtitle: unpaid care work in European employment law
By: Nicole Busby
Series: Oxford monographs on labour law; Oxford monographs on labour law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780199579020
Subjects: Labor laws and legislation; Voluntarism; Caregivers
Description: The reconciliation of unpaid care work and paid employment is among the most pressing and difficult problems currently facing employment law. Nicole Busby assesses the potential to situate a right to care within employment law, and for the recognition of carer status as a means of protecting against discrimination in employment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Unpaid care and paid work in European emloyment law; title: Theoretical perspectives on work and care; title: Paid work and unpaid care : the unsolved conflict; title: Situating a right to care in European employment law; title: European Union law and policy : balancing paid employment and unpaid care within a market order; title: The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union; title: Conclusions : solving the unpaid care/paid work conflict.