Current issue - 2025/1.
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Dominik LEIST - Monika SCHLACHTER:
Adequate Remuneration for the Self-Employed
Legal framework in Germany
The article examines the legal situation regarding individual and collective wage protection for solo self-employed persons in Germany and discusses the extent to which it complies with the requirements of international law, in particular those of the ESC.
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José Manuel PAZÓ ARGIBAY:
Social Security Law Applicable to Cross-Border Teleworking
An approach to the framework agreement on cross-border teleworking in the EU, EEA and Switzerland
This article examines the rules governing the social security legislation relevant to cross-border teleworking, as outlined in Regulation (EC) No 883/2004. It specifically focuses on the Framework Agreement on regular cross-border teleworking established in July 2023.
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Lidia DE LE IGLESIA AZA:
Negotiating the new normal: Telework and Collective Bargaining in Spain
The article examines the European and Spanish teleworking legislation and its incorporation into collective bargaining agreements following the adoption of Spain's telework regulations.
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Márton Leó ZACCARIA:
Rest periods as an essential part of the right to fair and just working conditions, focusing on the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union
From time to time, some crucial aspects of working time and rest periods are interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union. The relevant aspects are usually closely connected to one of the most important fundamental social rights, namely, the right to fair and just working conditions. It is adequate to elaborate on this subject from the point of view of both the relevant theoretical concepts and the recent case law of the Court of Justice.
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Bernadett SOLYMOSI-SZEKERES:
Reproductive Health in the Regulation of Working Time
The article exposes the tension between competitiveness-driven working time regulation and the emerging obligation to protect workers' reproductive and menstrual health, drawing on global labour law and EU documents, regulations. By comparing different models of menstrual leave, it asks how European – and particularly the Hungarian - legal systems should rethink the regulation on rest to support the reproductive health of workers.
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Rudolf Richárd DENICH:
The right to strike in the civil service: Enforceable entitlement or a theoretical possibility?
This paper examines the enforceability of the right to strike in the public sector, with a particular focus on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. The paper analyses two contrasting cases: the Court's judgment in Humpert and Others v. Germany, which upheld a strike prohibition for German civil servants, and an ongoing case involving Hungarian teachers' unions challenging strike restrictions.
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