From labour law to social competition law

law or social competition law? The right to dignity of working people questioned (once again). Observations on the future of law Marc Rigaux Prologue I. law, market and social competition A. A different approach of law B. Marginal correction of the market C. Preliminary conditions correction D. The liberalisation of the (labour) market and the lack of adequate social correction at the transnational level II. The historical link between law and human dignity A. The primary function of law B. The principal fundamental right of human dignity C. The (wage earning) worker: from commodity to citizen III. law, market law and social competition law A. The foundation of liberal society 1. The concept of liberal society 2. The market as a regulatory mechanism the satisfaction of social needs 3. Arrangements to manage and control systems aimed at the satisfaction of needs 4. Freedom and equality in law or freedom and equality in name only? B. Work as an object of market law and competition law 1. The foundations 2. law and the limitations of the freedom of the market and competition 3. The liberalisation of the market: an existential threat 4. The liberalisation of the market: an existential threat to law IV. The right to dignity of working people questioned (once again) A. Social correction jeopardised at the international level B. Competition between the national systems of social adjustment C. In search of an adequate transnational social counterforce Droit du travail ou droit de la concurrence sociale ? De droit a la dignite du travailleur est-il (a nouveau) remis en question ? Rene de Quenaudon Instruments of law. It is high time to start wondering whether law has not changed into social competition law, meaning that the right to dignity of working people is questioned (once again) Jens M. Schubert I. Introduction II. Instrument - an ambivalent term III. Perspectives IV. The cloud V. Individual law instruments VI. Collective law instruments VII. Other instruments A. Instruments in procedural law B. Economic instruments C. Tort law VIII.Classification IX. Evaluation and final thoughts Bibliography Les changements juridiques sur le marche du travail externe et interne Jan Buelens I. Le changement du mode de production II. Quelques exemples des changements de flexibilite interne III. Flexibilite externe: l'exemple de la sous-traitance Le droit du travail et les modifications apportees au marche du travail Esteban Martinez I. Les changements de la norme sociale de l'emploi II. La mobilisation flexible des travailleurs III. L'affaiblissement des protections liees au contrat de travail salarie A. L'enjeu de la relation d'emploi B. Travailler sans limites C. Une pluralite d'employeurs IV. Conclusions Bibliographie law and competition Wolfgang Daubler I. Introduction II. Competition III. law IV. Conflict or coexistence? A. The U.S. experience B. The German experience C. Coexistence after the Second World War in Western Europe V. The growing importance of the principle of competition VI. Attacks on law VII. Counterattacks? Market rules and the right to strike: a different approach Giovanni Orlandini and Filip Dorssemont Introduction I. A judicial reappraisal of market rules and the right to strike A. Reformulating the issue of horizontal effect B. Private sources versus private actions C. Employers' behaviour versus trade unions' activities D. Collective agreement, collective bargaining and collective actions E. Restrictions on collective actions: non-discrimination and protection of third parties F. Horizontal direct effect or indirect state liability? II. A failed legislative road de iure condendo: The Monti II proposal A. Legal basis B. The balance of Monti II C. Problems of the dispute resolution mechanism D. Critique on the alert mechanism III. A constitutional pathway A. The accession to the European Convention the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms B. Prospects of the accession C. A social progress clause Conclusions Fundamental social rights: An added value to the protection of workers? The increasing importance of fundamental (social) rights to the development of law? Teun Jaspers and Willemijn Roozendaal I. Introduction II. Controversial aspects III. The meaning of 'fundamental' social rights IV. EU law and respect fundamental rights A. Introduction B. The EU legislator and fundamental social rights C. The CJEU and fundamental social rights V. Competition between individuals and equality rights A. Introduction B. Protection against discrimination on the grounds of sex C. Protection against age and disability discrimination: reconsidering the proportionality test VI. Concluding remarks Le droit du travail, la restauration de l'autonomie de la volonte individuelle et la montee de la soft law Fleur Laronze I. La realisation du conflit entre l'autonomie de la volonte individuelle et la soft law A. Les conditions d'emergence du conflit 1. L'existence du conflit conditionnee a l'articulation entre l'autonomie de la volonte collective et l'autonomie de la volonte individuelle 2. L'existence du conflit conditionnee a l'articulation entre la dimension individuelle et la dimension internationale B. Les effets de la reconnaissance du conflit 1. Un effet pavlovien 2. Un effet secondaire II. La resolution du conflit entre l'autonomie de la volonte individuelle et la soft law A. La regulation du conflit 1. La regulation du conflit par l'application de regles de conflit 2. La requalification des normes en conflit par le juge B. L'anticipation du conflit 1. L'anticipation du conflit par la fusion-absorption des normes individuelles 2. L'anticipation du conflit par la fusion-integration des normes individuelles Mutating or dissolving law? The fundamental right to dignity of working people questioned (once again) Barbara Kresal I. The right to dignity and human rights - why is it so difficult to take them seriously in relations? II. Current challenges of law in the light of the right to human dignity III. Conclusion: The way forward - mutating or dissolving law? References Human dignity and decent work as ultimate objectives of law. Towards 'basic social law' with a law component? Kelly Reyniers I. Human dignity A. A dynamic concept with ethical and philosophical roots B. - but also a legal concept II. Decent work: a factor of human dignity A. An obvious nexus between decent work and human dignity B. Decent work: concept 1. In general: ensuring the employee's fundamental rights in the best possible way 2. Specifically: a means of identifying the ILO's major priorities C. Some remarks from a (Belgian) legal point of view III. law as (necessary) instrument to enforce and achieve decent work IV. Towards basic social law with a law component? A. The issue B. law - for everyone who performs labour C. Fundamental rights and international standards as incentives to change or extend the personnel scope of law D. Labour as the first application criterion law V. Conclusion law or social competition law: some concluding critical remarks Amanda Latinne Exit solidarity, enter as a commodity Under pressure Me and my car Sympathy the corporations Come together Now that we have found out, what are we going to do?