This book traces the evolution of EU employment law and social policy from its essentially economic origins in the Treaty of Rome through to the emerging themes post-Amsterdam: co-ordination of national employment policies, modernisation of social laws and combating discrimination. Each stage of development of Community employment law and social policy is analysed in depth to give a sense of perspective to this fast changing field. As the EU seeks to meet the challenges of globalisation the need to develop social policy as a productive factor has come to the fore

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU includes, in addition to the traditional 'civil and political rights', many rights of an economic or social nature. These essays by leading scholars consider the significance of the inclusion of such rights.

Labour and social security law studies have addressed the topic of the decline of the standard employment relationship mainly from the point of view of the growing number of atypical relationships. Only a limited number of studies have examined the issue from the perspective of the differentiation between core and contingent work. Such an examination is necessary as the increase in contingent works leads to complicated legal questions, which vary between European states depending on the type of contingent arrangements that have become most prevalent. Using the comparation by prototype...