Le charme discret du droit bourgeois : reflections on the treatment of collective labour rights in the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Abstract

This study critically maps and analyses the treatment of collective labour rights in the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union since the controversial Laval/Viking quartet. In doing so, it also touches on the jurisprudence which has developed in parallel at the European Court of Human Rights. In doing so, it nestles these past 15 years of jurisprudential development within the wider context and the changing natures of both Europe’s economic constitution and of labour law more generally.