Publications

June 2013

  1. Decent Work for Domestic Workers The state of labour rights, social protection and trade union initiatives in Europe

    19 June 2013

    Domestic work has come to the fore of international attention with the adoption of ILO Convention 189 and Recommendation 201 concerning Decent work for domestic workers by the International Labour Conference in 2011. It has also been the topic of a 2012 European training program of the Programme for Workers Activities of the International Training Centre of the ILO, organised in cooperation with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) and funded by the EU.

February 2006

  1. Labour law: Its role,trends and potential

    03 February 2006

    This issue of Labour Education 2006/2-3,No. 143-144, to which eminent lawyers have contributed,does not really set out to relate the history of labour law, but rather to stimulate some refl ection on its possible role in the globalized world of today. At the same time, we report some developments which suggest that labour law has been drifting away from its basic principle of protecting the weaker party within an unequal contractual relationship.