EU Intervention in Domestic Labour Law

Phil Syrpis studied Law at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1990-1993, and acquired a BCL at Wadham College, Oxford in 1994. He completed a doctoral thesis at Wadham in 2000, under the supervision of Professor Paul Davies. This thesis, on which this book is based, analysed the rationales for European Social Policy, looking in particular at Worker Participation Law. In 2002 he was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He has been at the University of Bristol as a lecturer since 1997 and a senior lecturer since 2005, researching and teaching predominantly in the area of European law. In 2005 was chair of the LNAT Consortium - the group of 8 leading universities which operate the National Admissions Test for Law.

• 1. Introduction ; Introduction ; What is EU Intervention in Domestic Labour Law? ; The Three Rationales for EU Intervention ; Competence Questions ; An Analysis of EU Interventions ; A Map of What is to Follow ; 2. The Three Rationales for EU Intervention in Domestic Labour Law ; Introduction ; The Integrationist Rationale ; The Relationship Between the Integrationist Rationale and the Economic and Social Rationales ; The Economic Rationale ; The Social Rationale ; The Relationship Between the Economic and Social Rationales ; 3. Competence Questions ; Introduction ; Arguments For and Against Centralization in Today's EU ; The Principle of Conferral ; The Principle of Subsidiarity ; The Principle of Proportionality ; The Potential of Subsidiarity and Proportionality ; Conclusions ; 4. The Intervention of the Court of Justice ; Introduction ; The Negative Integration Case Law of the Court of Justice ; Conclusions ; 5. The Interventions of the Political Institutions ; Introduction ; The Relationship Between Negative Integration and the Interventions of the Political Institutions ; The Harmonization or Approximation of National Labour Law Regimes ; Minimum Standard Setting and Other More Flexible Approaches ; The Open Method of Coordination ; 6. Conclusions

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