Bernd Waas – författare

The concept of 'employee' is arguably the most important one in labour law, defining, as it does, the scope of the discipline as a whole. This important new publication aims to develop a restatement of the concept of the employee in European labour law. The study identifies both problems and solutions that have emerged, clearly setting out comparisons between the different member states’ approaches. The country reports explore both statutes and case law, tracking their contribution to legal doctrine. The objective of the restatement is to increase knowledge and gain a better understanding of one of the most crucial aspects of European labour law.Assistant Editors:- Marta Otto- Effrosyni Bakirtzi

This book is part of a series which sets out a restatement of labour law in Europe. Its second volume looks at atypical employment relationships in Europe. Opening with a restatement, the book provides comparative commentary on the question of how fixed-term employment relationships, part-time employment relationships and temporary agency work is regulated by law in the individual states, which case law of the courts must be observed in this respect and which possibilities exist for shaping such relationships on the basis of collective bargaining agreements. The book goes on to systematically explore the national regulatory framework of: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. In this area, which is largely shaped by EU law in many countries, the commonalities and differences with regard to the relevant regulatory issues are examined. This important new project provides the definitive survey of labour law in Europe today.

Diese Abhandlung legt die Strukturen der 305 ff. BGB offen und klart, wie sich die im Arbeitsrecht geltenden Besonderheiten in das AGB-Recht einfugen lassen. Dabei geht es insbesondere um eine Beantwortung der Fulle von Zweifelsfragen, die 310 Abs. 4 BGB fur das Arbeitsrecht aufgeworfen hat.

Das Lehrbuch bietet eine Einführung in die ökonomische und juristische Analyse der Institutionen und Abläufe auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sowie der Verhaltensweisen von Arbeitgebern und Arbeitnehmern. Der Leser erhält einen Überblick über die vielfältigen mikroökonomischen Ansätze und die empirisch-sozialwissenschaftlich fundierten segmentationstheoretischen Erklärungsmodelle. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Rolle des Arbeitsrechts und die unterschiedlichen Einschätzungen von Ökonomie und Recht zu relevanten Sachverhalten gelegt. Indem auf mathematisch-modelltheoretische Darstellung weitgehend verzichtet wird, ermöglicht das Werk auch dem mit der mikroökonomischen Arbeitsweise weniger vertrauten Leser einen fundierten Einblick in die Funktionsweise von Arbeitsmärkten und wirtschaftspolitische Einflussmöglichkeiten. Durch gezielte Literaturhinweise zu den einzelnen Kapiteln erhält der interessierte Leser Ansatzpunkte für die weitergehende Beschäftigung mit dieser in der aktuellen Politik zentralen Thematik.

This report deals with the significance of the principle of proportionality in the strike law of Germany and the EU. As far as German law is concerned, the legal basis and content of the principle of proportionality will first be outlined, and then the importance of the principle for labour law in general. The main issue, however, is the role played by the principle of proportionality in industrial action law. There the Federal Labour Court has meanwhile raised the principle to the central yardstick for the assessment of industrial action measures. The relevant decisions will be presented, but also the considerable criticism of these will not be concealed. Subsequently, EU law will come to the fore, whereby the legal basis, the content and the scope of application of the principle of proportionality will be dealt first. On that basis, the application of the principle in industrial action law will be examined. In that context, the focus will be in the decisions of the European Court of Justice in the cases Laval and Viking. The following section is then devoted to the comparison of German and European law. The author here demonstrates that there are considerable differences in the application of the principle of proportionality.