New Morning? Irish Labour Law Post-Austerity

The Irish health-care system and austerity: sharing the pain.

www.thelancet.com Vol 383 May 3, 2014 1545 3 Michas G. Suicides in Greece: a light at the end of the tunnel. BMJ 2013; 347: f6249. 4 Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Press release: causes of deaths, 2012. http://www. statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/ A1605/PressReleases/A1605_SPO09_DT_ AN_00_2012_01_F_GR.pdf (accessed April 14, 2014; in Greek). 5 Hellenic Parliament. Respons...

China's new Labour Contract Law: No harm to employment?

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In January 2008, China adopted a new labour contract law. This new law represents the ...

Reconceiving Labour Law: the Labour Market Regulation Project

This paper reviews the recent work by Australian labour lawyers that has embraced the ‘new regulation’ and in particular the idea of law as regulation. This approach has recast the academic study of labour law as being concerned with regulation of the labour market. While much of this work has concentrated on expanding the field of labour law to include many areas of law affecting the labour ma...

The “Europeanisation” of labour law: can comparative labour law solve the problem?

T debate surrounding the nature of “Europeanisation” has been raging in the EU for a number of years. It raises a variety of issues regarding the impact of the EU and its effects on the domestic politics and institutions of member states. In terms of labour law, the EU has, over the years, attempted to Europeanise national labour law systems directly and indirectly by introducing measures under...

Ethnicity and Nationality in the Irish Labour Market