Employment Policy in the European Union: Origins, Themes and Prospects (0)

Providing a UK perspective on the EU's social dimension, this new text opens with a historical overview of EU social and employment policy, which is followed by chapters that focus on specific topics covered by the 'social dimension' of the European Union. These give the reader a detailed understanding of the nature of EU involvement in each area. Cover Contents List of Boxes, Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1 Overview of EU Employment Policy EU employment policy Stages of development Conclusions 2 Employment Promotion Building up employment competence Steps to the European Employment Strategy The Luxembourg process Policy orientation The Lisbon Agenda The Strategy for Growth and Jobs Conclusions: assessing the strategies 3 Flexicurity: Solution or Illusion? A critical approach to the solution of flexicurity The challenges of labour mobility Responses and struggles Conclusions: the Lisbon strategy and the quality of life 4 Equal Opportunities Gender equality National and racial equality Employment equality: the Framework Directive Conclusions 5 Employment Protection The European Convention on Human Rights Impact of EC legislation Directive on collective redundancies Directive on transfers of undertakings Directive on insolvent businesses Part-time workers Fixed-term workers Working time Proof of employment relationship Posted workers Conclusions 6 Occupational Health and Safety The changing legal bases for EC legislative action Institutional machinery Community activity Legal implications of EC activity Preventive impact of EC activity and the challenge of enlargement Conclusions 7 Employee Participation European Works Councils Directive Employee involvement in the European Company Information and Consultation Directive Conclusions 8 Social Dialogue Bipartite intersectoral dialogue Bipartite sectoral dialogue Tripartite social dialogue Conclusions 9 Vocational Education and Training Training: a pattern of diversity Promoting quality, transparency and co-operation Social dialogue on training Conclusions 10 Social Security The migrant employed and self-employed Equality of treatment: men and women Equal treatment: race Social security and the internal market The European citizen General measures Policy initiatives Conclusions Appendix 1 List of directives and other legal instruments cited in the text Appendix 2 List of cases cited in the text Appendix 3 Selected Articles from the Treaties establishing the European Union Appendix 4 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers References Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Overview of EU employment policy -- Michael Gold Employment promotion -- Bernard Casey Flexicurity: solution or illusion? -- Anne Gray Equal opportunities -- Helen Badger Employment protection -- Edward Benson Occupational health and safety -- Phil James Employee participation -- Peter Cressey Social dialogue -- Mark Carley Vocational education and training -- Jason Hayes, Helen Rainbird Social security -- Philippa Watson.