European Convention on Human Rights and the Employment Relation

Filip Dorssemont is Professor of Labour Law at the 'Centre interdisciplinaire droit, entreprise et société' of the Unversité catholique de Louvain. He teaches as a guest lecturer at the Université Saint-Louis de Bruxelles. He is a member of the Remarklab Group.Klaus Lörcher is former Legal Adviser to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and former Legal Secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union. Isabelle Schömann is senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

• General Part1. The New Social Dimension in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR): The Demirand Baykara Judgment, its Methodology and Follow-up Klaus Lörcher2. A Twenty-First-Century Procession of Echternach: The Accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights Rick Lawson3. Procedure in the European Court of Human Rights (with a Particular Focus on Cases Concerning TradeUnion Rights) John Hendy KC4. The Future of the European Court of Human Rights in the Light of the Brighton Declaration Klaus Lörcher5. Human Rights in Employment Relationships: Contracts as Power Olivier De SchutterAnalysis of the ECHR6. The Prohibition of Slavery, Servitude and Forced and Compulsory Labour under Article 4 ECHR Virginia Mantouvalou7. Labour Law Litigation and Fair Trial under Article 6 ECHR Sébastien Van Drooghenbroek8. Article 8 ECHR: Judicial Patterns of Employment Privacy Protection Frank Hendrickx and Aline Van Bever9. Freedom of Religion and Belief, Article 9 ECHR and the EU Equality Directive Lucy Vickers10. The Right to Freedom of Expression in the Workplace under Article 10 ECHR Dirk Voorhoof and Patrick Humblet11. The Right to Form and Join Trade Unions Protected by Article 11 ECHR Isabelle Van Hiel12. Article 11 ECHR: The Right to Bargain Collectively under Article 11 ECHR Antoine Jacobs13. The Right to Take Collective Action under Article 11 ECHR Filip Dorssemont14. Prohibition of Discrimination under Article 14 European Convention on Human Rights Niklas Bruun15. Every Natural or Legal Person is Entitled to the Peaceful Enjoyment of His or Her Possessions: Article 1, Protocol 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights Petra Herzfeld OlssonConclusions16. The European Convention on Human Rights and the Employment Relation Filip Dorssemont and Klaus Lörcher

...the publication of this volume is very timely. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the normative profile of the Convention across the range of relevant labour rights. ...The quality across these chapters is high, and it is evenly distributed. It provides an unrivalled overview of the current state of play under the Convention, and in so doing this volume deserves to be on the shelf of any academic or practising labour lawyer.