Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 3 of 3

Full-Text Articles in Law

On Equal Treatment, Positive Action And The Significance Of A Person's Sex, Ann Numhauser-Henning Dec 2000

On Equal Treatment, Positive Action And The Significance Of A Person's Sex, Ann Numhauser-Henning

Ann Numhauser-Henning

No abstract provided.


Flexible Qualification – A Key To Labour Law?, Ann Numhauser-Henning Dec 2000

Flexible Qualification – A Key To Labour Law?, Ann Numhauser-Henning

Ann Numhauser-Henning

This article argues that flexible knowledge (and thus continuous education) has the potential to out-date employment protection versus new forms of works as the touchstone oflabour law discourse in the Knowledge Society. Hitherto labour law discourse has usually focused on labour market segmentation in terms of a core group of permanently employed workers and more peripheral groups of workers in atypical employment. However, recent Swedish labour market statistics show that employability in terms of qualification appears to be the crucial quality, regardless of mode of employment, when it comes to the risk for the individual of being subjected to unfavourable …


Equal Treatment – A Normative Challenge, Ann Numhauser-Henning Dec 2000

Equal Treatment – A Normative Challenge, Ann Numhauser-Henning

Ann Numhauser-Henning

In early December 2000 we gathered, some fifty people, at the Law Faculty at Lund University to discuss the multi-faceted and complex normative issues related to equal treatment and non-discrimination in working life, and the challenge which developments in this area represent to social integration and the legal structures of labour law. The starting-point of the conference discussions was made up of a number of articles reflecting equal-treatment dimensions of different research projects within the Norma programme. Presentations, comments and discussions at the conference were organised along the same lines as this anthology, in three blocks on Non-Discrimination Law and …