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Equality at work. Tackling the challenges. Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work, ILO, Geneva, 2007, xv-127 p., ISBN 9789221181309
This new ILO report examines the status of traditional and new forms of discrimination and analyses progress in combating them at the national and global levels. It highlights newly emerging forms of discrimination, such as unfair treatment in hiring of younger and older workers, people with disabilities, those living with HIV/AIDS, on the basis of sexual orientation, and others. The report also explores the new challenges stemming from the emergence of practices that penalize people with a genetic predisposition to developing certain diseases or who have lifestyle issues considered unhealthy, such as tobacco use and obesity.
The traditional forms of discrimination based on gender, age, race and social origin, affecting virtually everyone in the world, remain stubbornly resistant to all efforts, including legal measures. This year’s report also presents a new global agenda building on lessons learned to achieve further progress in the elimination of discrimination is all its forms.
Full text and further information: http://www.ilo.org/declaration
Sandrine Cazes and Alena Nesporova, Flexicurity. A relevant approach in Central and Eastern Europe, ILO, Geneva, 2007, xiv-262 p., ISBN 9789221192152 (25,00 €)
This study is a valuable contribution to the debate surrounding the role of flexibility and security on labour market performance. Written by two leading experts in the field, with case studies contributed by outstanding national experts, it argues that the flexicurity approach is the most relevant for Central and Eastern European countries and suggests appropriate reforms of economic policy, institutional framework of the labour market, labour market policy and education and social policies in this region.
Through a series of national case studies, the volume examines how the countries of Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania and Poland, have attempted to balance labour market flexibility and security since the late 1990s. A discussion on wage flexibility is also included.
François Eyraud (ed.) and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ed.), The evolving world of work in the enlarged EU. Progress and vulnerability, ILO, Geneva, 2007, viii-582 p.,
ISBN 9789221195474 (50,00 €)
While many factors — unemployment, increased competition, globalization — have brought about radical changes in the way labour markets operate, the shift of the European Union (EU) from 10 to soon 27 member states has also contributed to the transformation of employment and working conditions. This volume, produced by a working group of leading experts in this field, presents timely information on the essential, but rarely studied, area of social policy in the EU enlargement process. It looks at the evolving practices in the world of work and how these may affect workers and their families.
Giuseppe Casale, Diritto del lavoro e relazioni industriali nell’Europa che cresce, Ediesse, Rome, 2007, 173 p., ISBN 9788823011403 (9,00 €)
This volume presents an analysis of the industrial relations systems in the 25 European Union member States and draws a comparison with the new States to join the Union. It aims to provide the reader an overview of current issues in tripartism and industrial relations, including the organization of social partners, collective bargaining, workers’ participation, labour market policies, wage level, working hours, and more generally, conditions of employment. A special section is dedicated to Turkey.
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