Notes on Contributors
Part I
Introduction
Chapter 1 Current Challenges in Czech Labour and Social Security Law in Historical Context
Jan Pichrt
Part II
Changing Realities in Labour Law
Chapter 2 Crisis and Labour Reforms in Spain: A Paradigm Shift?
Magdalena Nogueira Guastavino
Chapter 3 Reforms of Labour Law in Italy: A Paradigm Shift
Adalberto Perulli
Chapter 4 The Role of the State and Industrial Relations
Jesús Cruz Villalón
Chapter 5 Social Partners in Social Security: Two Common Forms of Recognition and Selected Issues
Grega Strban & Luka Mišic
Chapter 6 The Role of the State in Employment Relations
Petr Hurka
Chapter 7 Social Dialogue in Poland on Historical and Comparative Background
Marek Pliszkiewicz
Part III
Works Councils: Effective Tool in the World of Rule of Information
Chapter 8 European Works Councils: Problems of Effectiveness
Dagmara Skupien
Chapter 9 EWC Recast Directive: Its Impact, Problems and Outlooks
Romuald Jagodzinski
Chapter 10 Beyond European Works Councils?: Global Mechanisms of Information-Sharing and Workers’ Involvement Within Multinational Enterprises
Attila Kun
Part IV
Agency Work: Solving Old Problems with New Instruments
Chapter 11 Temporary Agency Work Directive: As Hollow as Swiss Cheese?
Ronnie Eklund
Chapter 12 Promoting or Controlling Cross-Border Temporary Agency Work?
Mijke Houwerzijl & Bas Rombouts
Chapter 13 Equal Treatment Between Temporary Agency Workers and Comparable Workers of the User Undertaking
Jaroslav Stránský
Part V
Sport and Labour: Specialities and Challenges
Chapter 14 When Sport and Labour Law Are Interlocked: Playing Ball with Modernisation
Frank Hendrickx
Chapter 15 Conclusion and Termination of Employment Relationship in Professional Sports: Special Regulations and Particular Protection Requirements
Stefano Bellomo
Chapter 16 The Particularities of the ‘Job’ Performance of the Professional Athlete: Rights and Obligations of the Parties to the Employment Contract
Costas Papadimitriou
Chapter 17 A Professional Sportsman: An Independent Worker?
Lubomír Ptácek
Part VI
Social Security: New Solutions for New Problems
Chapter 18 Social Security: A New Idea for the Twenty-First Century
Jean-Pierre Laborde
Chapter 19 Social Security and the Modern and Post-Modern Forms of Work
József Hajdú
Chapter 20 New Forms of Social Security? A Comment on Needs and Options for Reform in a National and Supranational Perspective
Ulrich Becker
Chapter 21 Guaranteed Minimum Income for All? A Task for the ILO
Martin Štefko
Part VII
Migrants and Migrant Workers: Their Social Rights
Chapter 22 Labour Law Protection of the Migrant Worker: Ambiguous Answers
Jean-Michel Servais
Chapter 23 Migrant Workers and European Social Law: Of a Respectable Age or Time for a Rebirth?
Yves Jorens
Chapter 24 Decent Work and Migrant Workers
Kristina Koldinská
Chapter 25 Facing Migration Crisis with Social Integration Instruments: Lessons from ILO and EU
Kristina Koldinská
Chapter 26 Social Integration of Migrants under European Social Charter: Right or Duty?
Marcin Wujczyk
Chapter 27 EU Law Demands to Assist and Integrate Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Eberhard Eichenhofer
Chapter 28 The Integration of Refugees into the Labour Market: The German Experience
Maximilian Fuchs
Chapter 29 The Devil Is in the Detail: Some Early Thoughts of EU Policy Makers on Negotiating Post-Brexit Coordination of Social Security
Simon Roberts
Part VIII
Family Work Balance: Effective Social Instruments
Chapter 30 The EU Proposal on Work-Life Balance and Its Potential Impact in the Netherlands
Susanne Burri
Chapter 31 Work-Life Balance in the Czech Republic
Vera Štangová
Chapter 32 Balance of Work and Education
Krasimira Sredkova