International Labour Law under the Rome Conventions offers a full academic examination of the conflict-of-laws questions in Labour Law, as far as they are standardised in Europe (Rome I and for industrial action Rome II). It also deals with the unregulated or only partial regulated field of the law referring to the applicable employment law and answers detailed conflict-of-laws questions of the international Labour Law, especially: Classification Law governing formal validity Connection factors for capacity and contractual capability Connection factors for the employment contract Special...

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 work leads to complicated legal questions which vary between European states depending on the type of contingent arrangements that have become most prevalent. This book analyses, using a comparative...