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Surrogacy Leave And Eu Law: Case C 167/12, C.D. V S.T. And Case C 363/12, Z. V A Government Department, Judgements (Grand Chamber) Of 18 March 2014, Mel Cousins Dec 2013

Surrogacy Leave And Eu Law: Case C 167/12, C.D. V S.T. And Case C 363/12, Z. V A Government Department, Judgements (Grand Chamber) Of 18 March 2014, Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

Advances in reproductive technology have tended to outpace the capacity of legislators to respond to these changes, leading to difficult legal questions for the courts. Surrogacy is one particular area where advances in technology have led to many legal challenges and have highlighted the failure (in several jurisdictions) to enact appropriate legislation in response to technological developments and/or differing views about what is ‘appropriate’. Two recent cases before the European Court of Justice (CJEU) have raised the issues as to whether either EU secondary legislation (in particular the Pregnant Workers Directive 92/85/EEC and/or the Equal Treatment Directives 2006/54/EC and 2000/78/EC) …


Parenthood Meets Market-Functionalism: Parental Rights In The Labour Market And The Importance Of Gender, Jenny Julén Votinius Jul 2013

Parenthood Meets Market-Functionalism: Parental Rights In The Labour Market And The Importance Of Gender, Jenny Julén Votinius

Jenny Julén Votinius

No abstract provided.


Intersections Of Age And Gender, Jenny Julén Votinius Jun 2013

Intersections Of Age And Gender, Jenny Julén Votinius

Jenny Julén Votinius

No abstract provided.


Understanding Law As Normative Patterns In A Normative Field, Ann Numhauser-Henning Dec 2012

Understanding Law As Normative Patterns In A Normative Field, Ann Numhauser-Henning

Ann Numhauser-Henning

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension of the EU - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade. It does this from a wide range of theoretical and legal-substantive perspectives. The past decade has witnessed the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty and its emphasis on fundamental rights, a new coordination regulation within the field of social security (Regulation 883/2004/EC), and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the so-called Laval Quartet. Furthermore structural …


Normative Patterns And Legal Developments In The Social Dimension Of The Eu, Ann Numhauser-Henning, Mia Rönnmar Dec 2012

Normative Patterns And Legal Developments In The Social Dimension Of The Eu, Ann Numhauser-Henning, Mia Rönnmar

Ann Numhauser-Henning

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension of the EU - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade. It does this from a wide range of theoretical and legal-substantive perspectives. The past decade has witnessed the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty and its emphasis on fundamental rights, a new coordination regulation within the field of social security (Regulation 883/2004/EC), and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the so-called Laval Quartet. Furthermore structural …


Introduction, Ann Numhauser-Henning Dec 2012

Introduction, Ann Numhauser-Henning

Ann Numhauser-Henning

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension of the EU - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade. It does this from a wide range of theoretical and legal-substantive perspectives. The past decade has witnessed the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty and its emphasis on fundamental rights, a new coordination regulation within the field of social security (Regulation 883/2004/EC), and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the so-called Laval Quartet. Furthermore structural …


The Eu Ban On Age-Discrimination And Older Workers: Potentials And Pitfalls, Ann Numhauser-Henning Dec 2012

The Eu Ban On Age-Discrimination And Older Workers: Potentials And Pitfalls, Ann Numhauser-Henning

Ann Numhauser-Henning

No abstract provided.


Compulsory Retirement And Age Discrimination - The Swedish Hörnfeldt Case Put In Perspective, Ann Numhauser-Henning, Mia Rönnar Dec 2012

Compulsory Retirement And Age Discrimination - The Swedish Hörnfeldt Case Put In Perspective, Ann Numhauser-Henning, Mia Rönnar

Ann Numhauser-Henning

No abstract provided.


Having The Right Attitude - Cooperation Skills And Labour Law, Jenny Julén Votinius Oct 2012

Having The Right Attitude - Cooperation Skills And Labour Law, Jenny Julén Votinius

Jenny Julén Votinius

This article deals with the legal understanding of the demands in working life on employees’ ability to cooperate.The concept of cooperation ability is here used in the sense of an ability to actively facilitate communication and foster relationships with colleagues and supervisors through flexibility and commitment, and thereby benefit the employer’s business. Special attention is paid to the discourse on employability in the employment policies at the EU level, and on the understanding of cooperation as a field in which it is possible to possess and acquire specific skills. The main aim of the article is to survey and conceptualize …


Intrusive Monitoring: Employee Privacy Expectations Are Reasonable In Europe, Destroyed In The United States, Lothar Determann, Robert Sprague Dec 2010

Intrusive Monitoring: Employee Privacy Expectations Are Reasonable In Europe, Destroyed In The United States, Lothar Determann, Robert Sprague

Robert Sprague

This Article examines the contrasting policy and legal frameworks relating to data privacy in the United States and the European Union, with a particular focus on workplace privacy and intrusive surveillance technologies and practices. It examines the U.S. perspective on modern work-related employer monitoring practices, the laws giving rise to possible employee privacy rights, and specific types of employer monitoring that may lead to actionable invasions of employee privacy rights. This article then addresses the issue of employee privacy from the EU perspective, beginning with an overview of the formation of authority to protect individual privacy rights, followed by an …


Fixed-Term Work In Nordic Labour Law, Ann Numhauser-Henning Dec 2001

Fixed-Term Work In Nordic Labour Law, Ann Numhauser-Henning

Ann Numhauser-Henning

This article describes the regulation of fixed-term work and its most recent developments in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Regulations are analyzed against the background of the Fixed-term Work Directive 1999/70/EC.