The ruling Laval un Partneri: clarification and innovation

Abstract

The ruling Laval is a ruling of clarification and innovation: it clarified that the conditions of work contained in collective agreements may only be applied when those agreements have been extended to all employers; it innovated by declaring the right to strike as a fundamental right, by applying the obligations arising from the fundamental freedoms to behaviour of private parties and by subjecting the exercise of the right to strike to a proportionality test.