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Summaries of Viking and Laval (Weekly 66)
International Transport Workers’ Federation and anor v Viking Line APB and anor
Laval un Partneri Ltd v Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet and ors
Rough Justice (Weekly 66)
Dirk Rüffert v Land Niedersachsen
Articles 43 and 49 (Weekly 66)
News in brief
Holiday case heads for Europe (117)
Ainsworth v Commissioners of the Inland Revenue
Fixed Term Work Directive (116)
End of Term
Opting Out (113)
The 48-hour working week
Life on the ocean wave (109)
Viking Line ABP and anor v International Transport Workers' Federation and anor (2006, IRLR 58)
A temporary Europe (105)
Shelving of proposed EC Directive on working conditions for temporary workers
No opt-out from working time (102)
TUC briefing on UK opt-out from 48-hour maximum working week
No more opting out (101)
European Parliament vote removing the UK's right to opt out of the 48-hour maximum working week under the Working Time Directive
Work your time (99)
Pfeiffer and ors v Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Kreisverband Waldshut Ev (2005, IRLR 137)
Consult in time (98)
Junk v Wolfgang Kühnel (Case C-188/03)
Compulsory retirement? (96)
Government announcement of default retirement age
To pay or not to pay (96)
Johanna Maria Boor, née Delahaye v Ministre de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Administrative
Compare and contrast (95)
Wippel v Peek & Cloppenburg GmbH & C0 KG
Working time amendments (94)
Proposed amendments to the Working Time Directive
Equal treatment (93)
EC equal treatment legislation
The EU constitution: a trade union issue (92)
Draft treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
Working to time (91)
European Commission discussion paper on proposed changes to the working time directive
Roll up roll up (91)
Clarke v Staddon; Caulfield v Marshalls Clay Products
Talking heads (90)
Future of European Works Councils
European Works Councils (86)
European Court of Justice ruling
EC consultation on working time (86)
European Commission consultation on the working time directive
When I'm sixty four (85)
Age discrimination strand of European Framework Directive
Crunch time for Working Time (83)
Landeshauptstadt Kiel v Norbert Jaeger, Case C-151/02
EU race rules now in force (81)
Race Relations Amendment Act 1976 (Amendment) Regulations
Labour law and the EU (76)
European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights
Time for European action (73)
Case C-513/99 on 17 September 2002, Concordia Bus Finland Oy Ab, formerly Stagecoach Finland Oy Ab v Helsingin Kaup Unki, HKL-Bussiliikenne
Case 225/98, Commission of the European Communities v French Republic, 26 September 2000
Future equality (71)
Council Directive 2000/43/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin.
Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation
Picking up information and consultation (69)
European directive establishing a general framework for improving information and consultation rights of employees in the European Community
Can they fix it? (67)
The Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 (draft)
A labour code for public services? (65)
Busman's holiday (65)
Bowden and ors v Tuffnells Parcels Express Ltd [2001] IRLR 838
Regulations delayed (62)
Council Directive 99/70/EC concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by the ETUC, UNICE and CEEP
Information and consultation: the final stage (61)
Proposed Draft Directive for Informing and Consulting Employee in the European Community [2001] IRLR 263 EAT
Trade union rights are human rights (57)
BECTU v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, (ECJ Case C-173/99 of 8 February 2001)
Positively equal
Abrahamsson and Anderson v Fogelqvist [2000] IRLR 732 ECJ
Application by Badeck [2000] IRLR 432 ECJ
Marschall v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen [1998]IRLR 39 ECJ
Kalanke v Freie Hansestadt Bremen 1995 IRLR 660 ECJ
Doctors on call (52)
Sindicato de Medicos de Asistencia Publica (SIMAP) v Conselleria de Sanidad y Consumo de la Generalidad Valenciana (European Court of Justice, 3 October 2000)
Human Rights seminar (52)
Human Rights Act 1998
Worker or drone (51)
Perceval-Price and others v Department of Economic Development and others [2000] IRLR 380 Northern Ireland Court of Appeal
A postcard from the EU (49)
The Posting of Workers Directive 96/71/EC
Independent and impartial? (42)
Smith v Secretary of State for Trade & Industry [2000] IRLR 6
Protecting collective agreements (41)
C-67/96, C-115-117/97 and C-219/97 (Albany)
Top brass defeated (40)
Lustig-Prean and Beckett v the United Kingdom
September 27 1999
Works Councils arrive (39)
Implementation of the European Works Council Directive: Consultative Document URN 99/926
Hold back the night (35)
R v Attorney General for Northern Ireland ex parte Burns [1999] IRLR 315
EU social dialogue: the court weighs in (29)
Gays abandoned: High Court u-turn on Royal navy discrimination (27)
R v Secretary of State for Defence Ex Parte Perkins
High Court QBD
13 July 1998 - reported in IDS Brief 619
TUPE plus ça change? (24)
Proposed Amendment to the Acquired Rights Directive
Payback for back pay? (24)
Opinion of Advocate General Leger in Belinda S Levez v TH Jennings (Harlow Pools) Limited Case C/326/96)
The time is nigh (22)
Working Time Directive and Young Workers Directive
What does it cover? (22)
Working Time Directive
Entitlements and limits: enforcement (22)
Working Time Directive
Adapting work to the worker (22)
Working Time Directive
Working to the limit (22)
Working Time Directive
Give us a break (22)
Working Time Directive
Modifications and restrictions (22)
Working Time Directive
Minimum holiday rights (22)
Working Time Directive
What about the workers? (22)
Working Time Directive
The full Monti: stripping away strikers' rights (20)
European Commission paper
Signing up to the Social Chapter (19)
EC Council Directives 97/74/EC and 97/75/EC
Amending the Acquired Rights Directive (19)
DTI Public Consultation URN 98/513 (December 1997)
Bringing human rights to the workplace (18)
European Convention on Human Rights
Equality in Amsterdam (14)
Tough sanctions in new consultation proposals (13)
European Commission proposals
Extending the working time directive (13)
The Treaty of Amsterdam (13)
Part-time workers' rights (12)
European Directive on part-time working
Let them work nights! (11)
Young Workers Directive
Losin' Suzen gives TUPE a bruisin' (10)
Suzen v Zehnacker Gebaudereinigung GmbH Krankenhausservice (European Court of Justice, 11 March 1997)
European Commission Explanatory Memorandum: Guidelines on the Application of the Acquired Rights Directive
UK in breach of the law (10)
(Trade Union and Employment Rights Act)
EAT puts right a TUPE wrong (9)
Rotsart de Hertaing v J Benoidt SA and IGC Housing Service [1997] IRLR 127 (ECJ)
Stretching the meaning of time (8)
DTI Consultation Document on Measures to Implement the Working Time Directive
Protection for workers sent to work in EU (7)
Posted Workers Directive
Time's up for the UK (6)
Working Time Directive
Time is on our side (6)
Working Time Directive
Cases head for the ECJ (5)
Heaven knows, anything (doesn't) go (4)
European works councils
Changing direction on parental leave (2)
Parental Leave Directive (1)