Wiebke Warneck

Trade Union Legal Experts Network for South East Europe

The Legal Experts Network operates as an extension in the Balkan region of the existing ETUC network of Trade union legal experts - NETLEX, combining expertise from both EU member-states and CEE accession countries. SEE experts would also profit from the established database that has accumulated information for more than five years of operation of NETLEX, including answers and legal advice on particular questions of labour law development in the CEE transition countries.

European Social Dialogue

This project is intend to scientifically cover issues related to the development of particular issues of the European social dialogue that are of major interest for the European Trade Union movement such as the evaluation of the instruments of the European social dialogue. Research is also launched as regards the evaluation of new instruments of soft law that interact with social dialogue instruments such as the codes of conduct or guidelines. In this respect, the issue of corporate social responsibility will be tackled. 

Legal Experts Network - NETLEX

The EC has produced and is likely to continue to produce European labour law, which is of direct interest of workers and their representatives, including trade unions. Information and advice on the elaboration, implementation and interpretation of EC labour law is thus of crucial importance for the ETUC and its member organizations.

European Labour Law Project

The ETUI-REHS is implied in the BLLP since 1998. The BLLP stopped end of 2004. However, since 2005 the Swedish cooperation partners are running along the lines of the BLLP the same kind of project for the region of St. Petersburg and the
Republic of Bashkortostan.

The Application of EU Labour Law Directives to Certain Sectors and/or Occupations

Often the ETUC and its European Industry Federations (EIF's) are confronted with the need to review the application of the different international and European (labour) law instruments to the different sectors of economy or specific occupations such as managerial staff or artists for instance.

Transnational Trade Union Rights

Several years ago, the ETUI-REHS established this network in order to be assisted in legal research in the area of fundamental social rights, including transnational trade union rights.

Report 75. The Community social acquis in labour law in the CEECs and beyond: fighting deregulation

EU accession is being used by the governments of the accession countries to deregulate labour law standards, thereby exacerbating the already significant gap between these countries and the European Social model.

Report 76. Legal analysis of the implementation of the fixed-term work directive

The Fixed-term work Directive is - following parental leave and part-time work - the third directive incorporating an EU social dialogue framework agreement. It aims not only to improve the quality of fixed-term work in a general framework geared to improved living and working conditions for workers in the European Union, but also to prevent the abuse of successive fixed-term contracts.

Report 78. Labour relations in South East Europe

An analytical overview of the legal frames that provide the basis for development of industrial relations and social dialogue in the region.

Report 82. Fundamental social rights in the European Union.

In a more than 330-page survey the ETUI presents the current situation regarding the legal recognition of fundamental social rights. The revised and updated version of Fundamental social rights in the European Union - Comparative tables and documents provides information on a subject that has been of constant political relevance in the EU since 1989.

Report 88. Non-discrimination in the European Union.

Non-discrimination is one of the fundamental values on which the European Union is based. Two Directives on this subject were adopted in 2000 to establish common principles for combating discrimination in the European Union. Directive 2000/78/EC is intended to put in place a general framework to ensure equal treatment of individuals in the EU, regardless of their religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, as regards access to employment or occupation and membership of certain organisations. Directive 2000/43/EC is intended to implement the principle of equal treatment on grounds of racial and ethnic origin in the EU, including in employment.

Report 87. Non-discrimination in the European Union

Non-discrimination is one of the fundamental values on which the European Union is based. Two Directives on this subject were adopted in 2000 to establish common principles for combating discrimination in the European Union. Directive 2000/78/EC is intended to put in place a general framework to ensure equal treatment of individuals in the EU, regardless of their religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, as regards access to employment or occupation and membership of certain organisations. Directive 2000/43/EC is intended to implement the principle of equal treatment on grounds of racial and ethnic origin in the EU, including in employment.

Report 86. REŠAVANJE SPOROVA U RADNIM ODNOSIMA

Report 86. ZGJIDHJA E MOSMARREVESHJEVE NE PUNE

Report 86. Labour dispute settlement

The settlement of labour disputes forms part of each national industrial relations system. In some countries conciliation, mediation and arbitration prevail, whereas in others the labour courts play the more important role. In most cases both dispute resolution mechanisms are used in a complementary way.

Information and consultation in the European Community

L'information et la consultation des travailleurs dans la Communauté européenne

Report 89. Non-discrimination in the European Union.

Non-discrimination is one of the fundamental values on which the European Union is based. Two Directives on this subject were adopted in 2000 to establish common principles for combating discrimination in the European Union. Directive 2000/78/EC is intended to put in place a general framework to ensure equal treatment of individuals in the EU, regardless of their religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, as regards access to employment or occupation and membership of certain organisations. Directive 2000/43/EC is intended to implement the principle of equal treatment on grounds of racial and ethnic origin in the EU, including in employment.