EU Commission Green Paper 'Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century'
2007; Oxford University Press; Volume: 36; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/indlaw/dwm022
ISSN1464-3669
Autores Tópico(s)International Labor and Employment Law
ResumoThe Green Paper recently issued by the Commission (Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century) rotates around ‘modernisation’, a non-legal concept which leaves space to different approaches and proposals. The ambivalence of this terminology—as opposed to, for example, changes, adaptations, evolution—may cause some interpretative doubts. How is a legal system to be defined as more modern than another one? More modern compared to what standards? The title and indeed the whole structure of the Green Paper have been conceived with the aim of opening up in Europe a process of consultation which is as wide as possible, addressed to the social partners, the national and European institutions and all stakeholders. This in itself is a positive element to underline. Some of the vagueness of the questions presented in the document may very well hide a genuine intention to encourage innovative and rich replies from a virtual community, as in a re-visitation of ars maieutica via the Internet. As a disguised Socrates of the twenty-first century the Commission may be trying to induce autonomous thinking in its interlocutors.
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