EU Intervention in Domestic Labour Law

Abstract

1. Introduction Introduction What is EU Intervention in Domestic Labour Law? The Three Rationales for EU Intervention Competence Questions An Analysis of EU Interventions A Map of What is to Follow 2. The Three Rationales for EU Intervention in Domestic Labour Law Introduction The Integrationist Rationale The Relationship Between the Integrationist Rationale and the Economic and Social Rationales The Economic Rationale The Social Rationale The Relationship Between the Economic and Social Rationales 3. Competence Questions Introduction Arguments For and Against Centralization in Today's EU The Principle of Conferral The Principle of Subsidiarity The Principle of Proportionality The Potential of Subsidiarity and Proportionality Conclusions 4. The Intervention of the Court of Justice Introduction The Negative Integration Case Law of the Court of Justice Conclusions 5. The Interventions of the Political Institutions Introduction The Relationship Between Negative Integration and the Interventions of the Political Institutions The Harmonization or Approximation of National Labour Law Regimes Minimum Standard Setting and Other More Flexible Approaches The Open Method of Coordination 6. Conclusions