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19//08/2010
ETUC – Brian Bercusson Award: Submit your research project on European Labour Law
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has instituted an award in order to honour the outstanding and most dynamic scientific work and its high relevance for the European trade union movement of the late Labour Law Professor Brian Bercusson: the ETUC – Brian Bercusson Award. With this Award, the ETUC and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) support academic research that deepen understanding of and promote transnational workers’ rights in Europe. The focus on European Labour Law shall raise awareness about new scientific research in academia as well as among practitioners in the European Union in order to encourage scientific, legal and political actions towards the further development, full recognition and better implementation of trade union- and workers’ rights.’
23//07/2010
Economic freedoms vs Fundamental rights – the dark series continues
In a judgment dated 15 July 2010, the European Court of Justice has condemned Germany over the practice of local authority employers to award contracts for pension services on the basis of a selection laid down in collective agreements. Relying extensively on the Viking and Laval case law, the Court ruled that although the right to collective bargaining is a fundamental right, the European public procurement rules should prevail.
13//07/2010
REACH: ETUC updates its Priority List for Authorisation
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) releases today the updated version of its Priority List of chemical substances of very high concern. The trade union organisation wants a maximum of them requiring authorisation under REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances), which objective is to progressively phase out from the EU market the most toxic chemicals for human health and the environment.
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