Title: Viking and Laval: collective rights and market freedoms in the recent European debate

Date: 03/13/2008

Subject: The attempt to balance the right to strike with market freedoms is controversial from the perspective of labour law. Social dumping emerges from these two rulings of the ECJ as an issue to be addressed in policy-making, as well as in future case law.

Original language: Italian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 16 Freedom to conduct a business - Solidarity - Art. 27 Worker’s rights: information - Worker’s rights: consultation - Art. 28 Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: organisation - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: negotiations - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: collective agreements - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: collective actions - Rights of workers, employers and their organisations: strike

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