The risks of invoking fundamental social rights
2014
5
3-4
322-333
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights ; European Convention on Human Rights ; European Social Charter ; human rights ; ILO ; labour law ; flexicurity
Law
English
"Fundamental social rights, in international and European texts, are used to resist to the reduction of the protection of workers' rights. In the French system, their justiciability has improved. The mobilisation of those rights is sometimes successful but their efficiency is limited. They might not be interpreted in a way that favours the workers, and there is a real risk of blocking the work within the international institutions and the judicial dialogue."
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