Announcements

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Comparative Labor Law and Policy

For the 2024 Marco Biagi Award

To stimulate scholarly activity and broaden academic interest in comparative labour and employment law, the International Association of Labour Law Journals announces a Call for Papers for the 2024 Marco Biagi Award. The award is named in honor of the late Marco Biagi, a distinguished labour lawyer, victim of terrorism because of his commitment to civil rights, and one of the founders of the Association. The Call is addressed to doctoral students, advanced professional students, and academic researchers in the early stage of their careers (that is, with no more than three years of post-doctoral or teaching experience).

1. The Call requests papers concerning comparative and/or international labour or employment law and employment relations, broadly conceived. Research of an empirical nature within the Call’s purview is most welcome.

2. Submissions will be evaluated by an academic jury to be appointed by the Association. Submitted papers should include an abstract.

3. The paper chosen as the winner of the award will be assured publication in a member journal, subject to any revisions requested by that journal.

4. Papers may be submitted preferably in English, but papers in French or Spanish will also be accepted. The maximum length is in the range of 12,500 words, including footnotes and appendices. Substantially longer papers will not be considered.

5. The author or authors of the paper chosen as the winner of the award will be invited to present the work at the Association’s 2024 meeting which is to be announced soon on the website of the Association. Efforts are being undertaken to provide an honarium and travel expenses for the presentation of the paper.  Until that effort bears fruit, however, the Association hopes that home institutional funds would be available to support the researcher’s presentation.

6. The deadline for submission is 31 March 2024. Submissions should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word both to Lavoro e diritto at lavoroediritto@unife.it and to Frank Hendrickx, the President of the Association, at frank.hendrickx@kuleuven.be and his secretariat: iar@kuleuven.be

Website of the IALLJ: www.labourlawjournals.com

Prior Recipients of the Marco Biagi Award

2023: Aleydis Nissen, The Fifth Fundamental Labour Right in EU FTAs

2022: Despoina Georgiou, Digital Platforms and the World of Work: Towards a Fairer Re-Distribution of Risks

2021: Nastazja Potocka-Sionek, How to regulate ‘digital piecework’? Lessons from global supply chains

2020: Harry Stylogiannis, Platform work and the human rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining

2019: Giovanni Gaudio, Adapting labour law to complex organisational settings of the enterprise. Why re-thinking the concept of employer is not enough.

2018: Matteo Avogaro, New perspectives for workers’ organizations in a changing technological and societal environment

2017: Nicolas Bueno, From the right to work to the freedom from work

2016: Mimi Zou, Towards Exit and Voice: Redesiging Temporary Migrant Workers’s Programmes

2015   Uladzislau Belavusau (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands), A Penalty Card for Homophobia from EU Labor Law: Comment on Asociaţia ACCEPT (C-81/12).

2014   Lilach Lurie (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Do Unions Promote Gender Equality?

            Special Commendation: Isabelle Martin (University of Montreal, Canada), Corporate Social Responsibility as Work Law? A Critical Assessment in the Light of the Principle of Human Dignity

2013  Aline Van Bever (University of Leuven, Belgium), The Fiduciary 

            Nature of the Employment Relationship

2012  Diego Marcelo Ledesma Iturbide (Buenos Aires University,

            Argentina), Una   propuesta para la reformulación de la

            conceptualización tradicional                       de la relación de trabajo a partir del

            relevamiento de su                           especificidad jurídica

               Special Commendation: Apoorva Sharma (National Law University,

             Delhi, India), Towards an Effective Definition of Forced Labor

2011                                    Beryl Ter Haar (Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands), Attila Kun  

            (Károli Gáspár University, Hungary) & Manuel Antonio Garcia-

            Muñoz Alhambra (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), Soft On

           The Inside; Hard For the Outside. An Analysis of the Legal Nature  

           of New Forms of International Labour Law

             Special Commendation: Mimi Zou (Oxford University, Great

             Britain), Labour Relations With “Chinese  Characteristics”?

             Chinese Labour Law at an Historic Crossroad

2010    Virginie Yanpelda, (Université de Douala, Cameroun), Travail

      décent et diversité des rapports de travail

             Special Commendation: Marco Peruzzi (University of Verona,

             Italy),                      Autonomy in the European social dialogue

Association’s Award Prior to Naming as Marco Biagi Award

2009    Orsola Razzolini (Bocconi University, Italy), The Need to Go

             Beyond the Contract:  “Economic” and “Bureaucratic”

             Dependence in Personal Work Relations

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Comparative Labor Law and Policy

 Thematic Issue: The Fragmentation of Labour Law: Retrospective and Prospective Outlooks

Deadline for article proposals: July 15, 2023

Labour is the result of numerous regulatory and institutional arrangements. In several jurisdictions, legislated labour law coexists with rules stemming from collective bargaining. The same goes for human rights, which will take precedence in numerous situations. Moreover, specific and often times derogating rules will apply in some sectors. In some contexts, labour issues are subject to a multilevel regulatory governance, as regional, national and subnational levels of government are likely to have jurisdiction over a given matter. In addition to labour laws, which directly regulate the employment relationship, other legal sources (immigration law, tax law, rules of professional conduct, etc.) will affect – directly or indirectly – the nature and scope of the rights and obligations of workers and employers. While multiple legal sources are thus likely to come into play, different implementation agencies and authorities may also be called upon to intervene.

The rules and institutions that govern work and employment translate in a complex system. On the one hand, this complexity stems from the fact that the rules are dense, technical and fast-changing1. On the other hand, the simultaneous interventions of different implementation institutions can lead to complementary or contradictory results.

This special issue examines the challenges for labour laws’ effectiveness that arise from the interface between multiple sources of regulation and implementation institutions. Does such fragmentation undermine or enhance its effectiveness? How do workers and unions navigate the complexities laid out by the architecture of the rules and institutions governing work and employment? What are the strategies that courts, unions, workers centers and the labour inspectorate lay out to mitigate the effects of this complexity? Do such strategies lead to better work? Do they reduce levels of risks? Enhance the autonomy of workers? Allow for more worker voice?

More specifically, this special issue will welcome contributions on a variety of issues, such as:

- The interactions between occupational and safety frameworks, fundamental rights and employments standards, with regards to the regulation of working time, sexual and psychological harassment, for e.g.;

- The synergy and antagonism between the functions and finalities of labour law and contract law or Common Law;

- The opportunities set forth by subnational levels of regulatory governance, at the city level, for eg.;

- The articulation of national public policy and institutions with regional and international law, in the European context, for e.g..

- The inter-normative dialogue between immigration law and labour protections, with regards to the working conditions of migrant workers, for e.g.

- The articulation between public health and occupational health and safety frameworks rules and actors, in the context of COVID-19, for e.g.;

- The impact of privacy rules on labour relations in the context of algorithmic management;

- Or any other relevant issue covered by the scope of this call for papers.

Guidelines for Authors

Abstract submission (max 500 words, with title and details of author(s) and institutional affiliations): July 1st 2023

Communication of acceptance: July 15th 2023

Submission of full papers: 31st March 2024

Submissions must be made in English. Final manuscripts must be original texts of between 6,000 to 12,000 words.

In accordance with the policy of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, manuscripts will be submitted for peer review.

For abstract submission or questions, please email Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, dalia.gesualdi-fecteau@umontreal.ca

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Comparative Labour and Social Security Law 

Deadline for article proposals: Feburary 28, 2023

ARGUMENTATION

It has taken the recent reoccurrence of climate emergencies and crises to finally bring the subject of climate change and the need for an energy transition to the forefront of national and international attention. Awareness has been slow to develop and expert IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports have proven to be ineffective. In the face of such transformations, labour law is called upon to play an essential role in the adaptation of production organisations. Oil crises, financial crises, the coronavirus crisis... Each of these upheavals has led to changes in labour legislation. Clearly, climate change is no exception. By its scale and nature, the energy transition could involve much more than simple legislative adjustments. Is labour law on the verge of a paradigm shift? At least two arguments support this hypothesis. The first argument concerns the nature of the energy transition. This implies a change in the conceptual framework of the aims of the economy. The scale of the efforts involved in decarbonisation requires, to varying degrees, an exit from the productivist economy. This change of model cannot be without consequences for a labour law born with the industrial revolution. The second argument relates to the ordering of contemporary legal systems into autonomous branches. Environmental law and labour law were conceived as separate fields. For a long time, labour law did not take into account environmental implications and issues. These had to be dealt with by specialised legislation. This compartmentalisation of the branches of law is increasingly being called into question. The energy transition implies the integration of environmental requirements into labour law provisions. Certain mechanisms recently put in place at State and European Union level bear witness to this redrawing of disciplinary boundaries. The draft directive on corporate duty of care is emblematic of this development at European level. It places environmental issues alongside the defence of human rights and the protection of workers. Rather than considering such developments as isolated changes, should we not see them as the harbingers of a paradigm shift? Should we interpret this process as a renewal of the social question driven by environmental issues? Comparative Labour and Social Security Law Journal 2023-3 Thematic Chapter « The social question in the test of the environment » Coordinated by Jérôme PORTA, Professor, COMPTRASEC - University of Bordeaux Call for Papers 2023/3 By choosing this subject for the 2023 thematic issue of the Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale, 1 the Revue's management wishes to contribute to the general reflection on the topic, by asking how and under what conditions the increasing consideration of environmental issues in labour law could lead to the emergence of new paradigms for national labour legislation. It is such a hypothesis that we would like to put to the test of comparison. This investigation should then be carried out from three different perspectives: I- The formulation of socio-environmental problems in labour law. II- The transformation of labour law concepts and principles. III- The hybridisation of labour law mechanisms.

FRAMEWORK OF THE CALL

Contributions may address, by way of illustration, the following points: I- Socio-environmental problems in labour law The fact that global warming is a global phenomenon does not imply that it is approached in the same way in all countries. From one context to another, global warming and the challenges of the energy transition can be addressed in different ways by national labour laws. In order to understand the changes that accompany the climate crisis, it is therefore necessary to move away from a mechanical approach that would see the law adapting to external factors. Instead, the formulation of socioenvironmental "problems" is a co-construction. A first perspective may consist of looking back at the way in which environmental issues have been taken into account to justify certain reforms or developments in labour law: - For which areas (health, employment, worker representation, etc.) and to what extent have environmental issues become justifications for changes in labour law? - How have environmental issues been integrated by successive labour law reforms? A second perspective consists of looking at the cases, disputes or controversies through which the environmental requirements of labour law have been made an issue: - Which cases, scandals or emergencies have been the drivers of a debate on the environmental dimension of the social question? - How have they been dealt with legally? - What were their relays? - What interests, values and conceptions were confronted? What are the outcomes and reformulations? II- Renewal of the concepts and principles of labour law Legal developments always have a complex relationship with existing legal constructions and with the past state of the law. Changes in labour law are no exception to this past dependency. The effects of crises on national labour laws have often been reflected not so much in the introduction of new provisions, but in the adaptation of pre-existing concepts and principles. To what extent are environmental issues likely to involve changes in concepts and principles in national labour laws? For example, several questions could be considered: - How is worker representation likely to be affected by the energy transition? 1 https://comptrasec.u-bordeaux.fr/revue-de-droit-compare-du-travail-et-de-la-securite-sociale https://journals.openedition.org/rdctss/ - Which actors are involved in consideration and implementation (trade unions, NGOs, Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision -IORPs, communities/citizens, experts, institutions, companies/parent companies, etc.)? - What are the interests involved (individual, collective, general, entrepreneurial, etc.), the possible conflicts of interest and the methods of regulation? - What are the changes in the rights and obligations of the parties to the employment relationship and their relationship with the stakeholders? - What is the potential impact on occupational health? What are the challenges of bringing together environmental, health and social risks within the same organisation? - What changed are occurring to the historical purpose of labour law to protect the worker? III- Hybridisation of labour law systems The gradual specialisation of national legal systems over the course of the 20th century led to an increasing autonomy of the various branches of law. Each branch seemed to have a corresponding area of state regulation: companies, competition, consumption, the environment, labour, etc. This same fragmentation of regulation can be seen at international level in the specialisation of international organisations, such as the WTO, the ILO and the WHO. Corporate social responsibility at the international and European levels may have seemed to be a fertile field of experimentation for such hybridisations, between the defence of human rights, labour law and environmental law. Today, we are witnessing a growing integration of mechanisms inspired by these forms of self-regulation into national labour laws. The influence of European Union law is not unrelated to this. Several directives have thus integrated CSR measures. As a result they are leading to a growing role for the hybridisation of regulatory methods combining social and environmental requirements. - Is the energy transition likely to call into question this compartmentalisation of the branches of law? - Could it be at the origin of hybridisation processes between branches of law or types of standards (legal, managerial, accounting, reporting)? - How does this hybridisation manifest itself in national laws? - What difficulties does their integration into labour law pose? - Do they appear to be part of a wider evolution of labour regulation under the influence of environmental concerns?

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Format of expected contributions The expected contributions will be in French, English or Spanish, with a maximum volume of 40,000 characters including spaces. In addition, manuscripts must be accompanied by: - The title of the article; - 5 keywords to identify the content; - An abstract of 400 characters; - The author's institution, title, postal and e-mail addresses; - The research topics and two bibliographical references of the author (your choice). Calendar - Deadline for paper proposals (500 words abstract + title): February 28, 2023 - À : jerome.porta@u-bordeaux.fr - Copy to: revue.comptrasec@u-bordeaux.fr - Deadline for response to authors: March 10, 2023 - Deadline for submission of papers: June 30, 2023 Nota Bene: The Comparative Labour and Social Security

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Marco Biagi Award

Deadline for article proposals: March 31, 2023. 

To stimulate scholarly activity and broaden academic interest in comparative labour and employment law, the International Association of Labour Law Journals announces a Call for Papers for the 2023 Marco Biagi Award. The award is named in honor of the late Marco Biagi, a distinguished labour lawyer, victim of terrorism because of his commitment to civil rights, and one of the founders of the Association. The Call is addressed to doctoral students, advanced professional students, and academic researchers in the early stage of their careers (that is, with no more than three years of post-doctoral or teaching experience). 1. The Call requests papers concerning comparative and/or international labour or employment law and employment relations, broadly conceived. Research of an empirical nature within the Call’s purview is most welcome. 2. Submissions will be evaluated by an academic jury to be appointed by the Association. Submitted papers should include an abstract. 3. The paper chosen as the winner of the award will be assured publication in a member journal, subject to any revisions requested by that journal. 4. Papers may be submitted preferably in English, but papers in French or Spanish will also be accepted. The maximum length is in the range of 12,500 words, including footnotes and appendices. Substantially longer papers will not be considered. 5. The author or authors of the paper chosen as the winner of the award will be invited to present the work at the Association’s 2023 meeting which is to be announced soon on the website of the Association. Efforts are being undertaken to provide an honarium and travel expenses for the presentation of the paper. Until that effort bears fruit, however, the Association hopes that home institutional funds would be available to support the researcher’s presentation. 6. The deadline for submission is March 31 2023. Submissions should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word both to Lavoro e diritto at lavoroediritto@unife.it and to Frank Hendrickx, the President of the Association, at frank.hendrickx@kuleuven.be and his secretariat: iar@kuleuven.be Website of the IALLJ: www.labourlawjournals.com Prior Recipients of the Marco Biagi Award 2022: Despoina Georgiou, Digital Platforms and the World of Work: Towards a Fairer Re-Distribution of Risks 2021: Nastazja Potocka-Sionek, How to regulate ‘digital piecework’? Lessons from global supply chains 2020: Harry Stylogiannis, Platform work and the human rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining 2019: Giovanni Gaudio, Adapting labour law to complex organisational settings of the enterprise. Why re-thinking the concept of employer is not enough. 2018: Matteo Avogaro, New perspectives for workers’ organizations in a changing technological and societal environment 2017: Nicolas Bueno, From the right to work to the freedom from work 2016: Mimi Zou, Towards Exit and Voice: Redesiging Temporary Migrant Workers’s Programmes 2015 Uladzislau Belavusau (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands), A Penalty Card for Homophobia from EU Labor Law: Comment on Asociaţia ACCEPT (C-81/12). 2014 Lilach Lurie (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Do Unions Promote Gender Equality? Special Commendation: Isabelle Martin (University of Montreal, Canada), Corporate Social Responsibility as Work Law? A Critical Assessment in the Light of the Principle of Human Dignity 2013 Aline Van Bever (University of Leuven, Belgium), The Fiduciary Nature of the Employment Relationship 2012 Diego Marcelo Ledesma Iturbide (Buenos Aires University, Argentina), Una propuesta para la reformulación de la conceptualización tradicional de la relación de trabajo a partir del relevamiento de su especificidad jurídica Special Commendation: Apoorva Sharma (National Law University, Delhi, India), Towards an Effective Definition of Forced Labor 2011 Beryl Ter Haar (Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands), Attila Kun (Károli Gáspár University, Hungary) & Manuel Antonio Garcia- Muñoz Alhambra (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), Soft On The Inside; Hard For the Outside. An Analysis of the Legal Nature of New Forms of International Labour Law Special Commendation: Mimi Zou (Oxford University, Great Britain), Labour Relations With “Chinese Characteristics”? Chinese Labour Law at an Historic Crossroad 2010 Virginie Yanpelda, (Université de Douala, Cameroun), Travail décent et diversité des rapports de travail Special Commendation: Marco Peruzzi (University of Verona, Italy), Autonomy in the European social dialogue Association’s Award Prior to Naming as Marco Biagi Award 2009 Orsola Razzolini (Bocconi University, Italy), The Need to Go Beyond the Contract: “Economic” and “Bureaucratic” Dependence in Personal Work Relations

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 

Comparative International Association of Labour Law Journals (IALLJ)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Promoted by the International Association of Labour Law Journals (IALLJ)

Deadline for article proposals: March 31, 2023. 

The International Association of Labour Law Journals is promoting a Call for Abstracts in connection with a seminar, organised by the Italian IALLJ-member journals, to be held on May 5th, 2023, in Naples (Italy) at the Federico II University, where the selected papers will be presented. This afternoon-seminar will start at 15.00h.

A panel of prominent scholars from the IALLJ membership will discuss the chosen abstracts.

The Association’s journals may also select some papers for publication, based on the abstracts which were submitted. The authors can write in the language agreed upon with the journal selecting the abstract.

Title: Best practices in comparative labour law

The time is ripe for a reflection on the importance of comparison in labour law and social security studies; while comparative research does not appear to be at all new, a few factors, some of a general nature and some intrinsic to labour law make it paramount to address once again such type of analysis.

Among the former, two need to be especially acknowledged:

1. The globalization of society and economy makes it increasingly necessary to compare the legal systems of various countries. In fact, many countries are currently facing similar problems; consequently, legislators and Courts search for inspiration to find proper solutions by looking at what has been done by other States. The rise of the gig economy and the widespread cross-border debate on the status of platform workers is one of the most prominent examples of the importance of comparative analysis to solve new legal questions. But many other examples can be given such as, among others, the various telework reforms implemented in recent years, the legislative focus on the right to disconnect, or, in addition, legislation passed at the national level on due diligence.
2. Several challenges, such as growing inequality and the climate change, concern all countries in the world. Consequently, these worldwide challenges need a global solution. This can be elaborated only starting from a comparative examination of the national legal systems to find out the specific problems they face and the original solutions they provide.
3. The dimension of the European Union from the planning phase of its actions presents itself as the “germ” of the comparison because the legal systems of the 27 Member States need to be fully grasped and understood before intervening with supranational legislation. This issue may hold lesser importance at the international law level because, for example, before issuing conventions, the ILO compares the primary Adhering States with more flexibility than the Union does, since there is no obligation to ratify the ILO conventions. Conversely, the Member States of the Union must apply European standards and comply with its legislation.

When it comes to specifically engaging in comparative labour law research, the need for an upsurge and dissemination appears to be linked to two main factors:

1. From global phenomena: The development and growth of multinational companies, and in general of a transnational dimension of manufacturing organizations, requires that they operate in different countries and intersect a plurality of legal systems, from which legal problems arise, which can be solved only by getting acquainted with the different national contexts.
2. From the EU perspective: For labour law, the European Union means many things. Still, since its origins, it has meant, first, freedom of movement for workers to whom certain rights must be recognized in the various Member States. In recent years, it could be argued that economic and social changes have pushed for a renewed attention to the EU social dimension, of which the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Directive on adequate minimum wages are the most known examples. Such context, however, brings new challenges, not only in the dialogue among the EU and the Member States’ lawmakers but also among the different Courts.

Under these stimuli, this call aims at raising a debate on some practical issues of comparative research in labour law in two or more countries all over the world and invites labour law scholars and researchers from other close disciplines to present contributions in the following areas:

1. a) Contract of employment: in particular, classification issues (self-employment/dependent work), employer’s prerogatives and powers, non-standard work, dismissals.
2. b) Trade unions and industrial relations: in particular, collective bargaining systems, firm-level representation, workers’ participation, and industrial conflict.
3. c) Social security: in particular, basic income and anti-poverty strategies, ageing policies, social safety nets and unemployment benefits.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1st, 2023.

Abstract: maximum 10000 characters (spaces included). The abstract should focus on one or more of the above-mentioned topics, clearly describing the research objectives, the methodology and (if necessary) an essential bibliography.

Contacts for information and submission: cfp.IALLJ@gmail.com

Academic organisers: Massimiliano Delfino (Federico II University of Naples - Diritti Lavori Mercati), Silvia Borelli (University of Ferrara - Lavoro e diritto), William Chiaromonte (University of Florence - Giornale di diritto del lavoro e di relazioni industriali), Emanuele Dagnino (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Il diritto delle relazioni industriali & E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies), Giuseppe Antonio Recchia (University of Bari – Rivista giuridica del lavoro e della previdenza sociale).

CALL FOR PAPERS

 Comparative Labour and Social Security Law Journal 2023-1

Theoretical articles- Doctrine 

Subjects freely chosen by the authors

Deadline for article proposals: July 15, 2022

The Studies section of the Comparative Labour and Social Security Law Journal 2023/1 will publish theoretical articles - Doctrine - on subjects freely chosen by the authors.

 GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Format of expected Contributions

The expected contributions will be in French, English or Spanish with a maximum volume of 40,000 characters including spaces and footnotes.

In addition, manuscripts must be accompanied by the following items:

- The title of the article;

- 5 keywords to identify the content; - An abstract of 400 characters;

- The institution to which the manuscript belongs, the title and the postal and electronic address of the author(s); --

- Research topics and bibliographical indication of the author (two publications of your choice).

Calendar

Deadline for paper proposals (500 words abstract + title): July 15, 2022

To revue.comptrasec@u-bordeaux.fr copy to marie-cecile.clement@u-bordeaux.fr

- Response to authors: September 1st, 2022

- Deadline for submission of papers: December 1st, 2022

Nota Bene: The RDCTSS Journal publishes original texts submitted to an anonymous evaluation by two experts.

CALL FOR PAPERS

 Comparative Labour and Social Security Law Journal 2022-3

Thematic Chapter: “The Social and Solidarity-Based Economy”

 Deadline for article proposals: February 1st, 2022

Coordinated by:

Isabelle DAUGAREILH, CNRS Research Director - COMPTRASEC, University of Bordeaux

Mathieu de POORTER, Expert in Cooperative and Social Economy

ARGUMENTATION

Since the 2010s, there has been a revival of interest on the part of the public authorities at the national, European and international levels in the cooperative sector and, more broadly, in the social and solidarity-based economy (hereinafter SSBE). The ILO has put this subject on the agenda for the next International Labour Conference in June 20221. One of the objectives will be to draw up a universal definition of the SSBE while establishing the principles and values attached to it and giving a clear mandate to the ILO. The ILO Centenary Declaration identified cooperatives as enterprises capable of meeting the future challenges to be posed in the world of work. On 25 October 2011, the institutions of the European Union, following Regulation (EC) No 1435/2003 of 22 July 2003 on the Statute for a European Cooperative Society (SCE), adopted a Communication on Social Entrepreneurship, known as the “Social Business Initiative”. In 2021, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the European Action Plan for Social Economy, which should be adopted by the end of this year. On 14 July 2014, following on the heels of their Italian and Spanish counterparts, French lawmakers adopted a law on the social and solidarity economy, which set the objective of creating a genuine economic sector and modernizing cooperative law (by relaxing it/making more it flexible). 

Closely mirroring the historical context of the 19th century that saw the emergence of the Cooperativist utopia based on the first workers' production societies which subsequently became production cooperatives, the SSBE has been presented at the beginning of the 21st century as a solution to problems (ills) of quite different natures and scopes, and as an alternative horizon from a social and economic standpoint. It has been seen as a way for workers to organize themselves in order to emerge from informality, escape from the working conditions imposed by digital platforms, give meaning to their work, or pool their resources in order to provide a united response to social risks. It is also a means of creating enterprises pursuing social goals. The social and solidarity-based economy is therefore seen as consistent with global institutional strategies such as the decent work movement, with national public policies for people struggling with social and occupational integration, and with local policies to develop the circular economy. The SSBE is presented as a notion encompassing a vast range of highly diverse organizations with different legal statuses. In this call for contributions, only organizations with employment and social protection-related goals will be selected. 

By choosing this as the subject for the thematic issue of the Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale2 to be published in 2022, the Revue's management wishes to contribute to the general reflection on this subject by addressing the questions of how and under what conditions the SSBE contributes to creating jobs in various regions of the world, and how it supports and/or replaces the welfare state, especially in matters relating to social protection. The aim is to emphasize diversity (as opposed to diversification) and the singularity of the methods and purposes of cooperation in the globalized, financialized, gig economy of the 21st century in order to propose a critical analysis of its practices, which are claimed to be "alternative" by the institutional, economic and social actors from a legal and sociological point of view. It is also about emphasizing, if necessary, the specificity of the questions raised by the SSBE according to whether we are talking about a country with a developed economy and formalized jobs, or a country in which the informal economy still plays an important role.

¹ At its 3rd ILC, the ILO adopted a Resolution that referred to different aspects of cooperatives; at its 11th session in 1922 the Governing Body clarified the links between the cooperative movement and the different forms of social economy. The International Labour Conference adopted R193, the Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation in 2002.

FRAMEWORK OF THE CALL

For guidance, contributions could cover the following points:

1. What is the definition of the concept/notion of SSBE? Is it subject to legal regulation? How is it linked to cooperative law? What relative importance is respectively given to continuities and transformations from a regulatory standpoint? What do the SSBE and/or cooperatives represent from economic and employment-related perspectives?
2. What are the characteristics of the legislation on the SSBE (e.g. cooperative law, the law on associations) in force in the country? What are its convergences or differences in relation to civil/commercial/company/labour law? How has this law developed? What are its links with the principles of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)? What role have international or regional institutions played as international comparisons in the development of cooperative law?
3. What are the characteristics of enterprises with the status of workers'/production cooperatives (size, sector, workers' profile, etc.)? Are there several legal types of workers' cooperative? What are the characteristics of mutual societies, associations, etc.?
4. Can SSBE organizations (e.g. cooperatives, associations, mutual societies, etc.) be fully assimilated with classic enterprises or can they benefit from certain advantages (tax exemptions, public aid or other) at the risk of raising questions in relation to competition law, or do they enjoy a special status due to their social purpose, and if so, to what extent?
5. What benefits do SSBE organizations (e.g. cooperatives, associations, mutual societies, etc.) bring in terms of the governance of work and companies? Do they offer any perspectives for the renewal of the forms and functions of labor relations, the exercise of power and check-and-balance mechanisms? What alternatives do they offer to social partner organizations? What links exist and/or are maintained with the trade union movement at local, national or regional level?
6. Can cooperatives act as alternatives to the closure of companies, enabling jobs to be saved or even created?
7. Are cooperatives seen as a possible alternative to the collaborative economy developed by digital platforms or as a horizon for decent work?
8. Are cooperatives or SSBE structures involved in policies or experiments relating to the transition towards the formal economy and the social and occupational integration of vulnerable people, or to the environmental and digital transitions?

² https://comptrasec.u-bordeaux.fr/revue-de-droit-compare-du-travail-et-de-la-securite-sociale

   https://journals.openedition.org/rdctss/

 GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Format of expected Contributions

The expected contributions will be in French, English or Spanish with a maximum volume of 40,000 characters including spaces.

In addition, manuscripts must be accompanied by the following items:

• The title of the article;
• 5 keywords to identify the content;
• An abstract of 400 characters;
• The institution to which the manuscript belongs, the title and the postal and electronic address of the author(s);
• Bibliographical indication of the author (two publications of your choice).

Calendar

• Deadline for paper proposals (500 words abstract + title): February 1st, 2022
• To : isabelle.daugareilh@u-bordeaux.fr and mathieu2poorter@gmail.com
• Copy to: revue.comptrasec@u-bordeaux.fr
• Deadline for response to authors: End of February, 2022
• Deadline for submission of papers: June 1st, 2022

Nota Bene: The Comparative Labour and Social Security Law Journal publishes original texts submitted to an anonymous evaluation by two experts.

 Website of the Comparative Labour and Social Security Law Review

CALL FOR PAPERS

2022 Marco Biagi Award

To stimulate scholarly activity and broaden academic interest in comparative labor and employment law, the International Association of Labour Law Journals announces a Call for Papers for the 2022 Marco Biagi Award.

The award is named in honor of the late Marco Biagi, a distinguished labor lawyer, victim of terrorism because of his commitment to civil rights, and one of the founders of the Association.

The Call is addressed to doctoral students, advanced professional students, and academic researchers in the early stage of their careers (that is, with no more than three years of post-doctoral or teaching experience).

1. The Call requests papers concerning comparative and/or international labor or employment law and employment relations, broadly conceived. Research of an empirical nature within the Call’s purview is most welcome.
2. Submissions will be evaluated by an academic jury to be appointed by the Association. Submitted papers should include an abstract.
3. The paper chosen as the winner of the award will be assured publication in a member journal, subject to any revisions requested by that journal.
4. Papers may be submitted preferably in English, but papers in French or Spanish will also be accepted. The maximum length is in the range of 12,500 words, including footnotes and appendices. Substantially longer papers will not be considered.
5. The author or authors of the paper chosen as the winner of the award will be invited to present the work at the Association’s 2022 meeting which is to be announced soon on the website of the Association. Efforts are being undertaken to provide an honorarium and travel expenses for the presentation of the paper. Until that effort bears fruit, however, the Association hopes that home institutional funds would be available to support the researcher’s
presentation.
6. The deadline for submission is 31 March 2022. Submissions should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word both to Lavoro e diritto at lavoroediritto@unife.it and to Frank Hendrickx, the President of the Association, at frank.hendrickx@kuleuven.be and his secretariat: iar@kuleuven.be

Website of the IALLJ: www.labourlawjournals.com

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

International Association of Labour Law Journals (IALLJ) 2021

Click here for link to PDF

 The International Association of Labour Law Journals is promoting a Call for Abstracts in connection with the seminar that the association will organise during its next Business Meeting.

CALL FOR PAPERS

2020 Marco Biagi Award

To stimulate scholarly activity and broaden academic interest in comparative labour and employment law, the International Association of Labour Law Journals announces a Call for Papers for the 2020 Marco Biagi Award. The award is named in honor of the late Marco Biagi, a distinguished labour lawyer, victim of terrorism because of his commitment to civil rights, and one of the founders of the Association. The Call is addressed to doctoral students, advanced professional students, and academic researchers in the early stage of their careers (that is, with no more than three years of post-doctoral or teaching experience).

1. The Call requests papers concerning comparative and/or international labour or employment law and employment relations, broadly conceived. Research of an empirical nature within the Call’s purview is most welcome.
2. Submissions will be evaluated by an academic jury to be appointed by the Association. Submitted papers should include an abstract.
3. The paper chosen as the winner of the award will be assured publication in a member journal, subject to any revisions requested by that journal.
4. Papers may be submitted preferably in English, but papers in French or Spanish will also be accepted. The maximum length is in the range of 12,500 words, including footnotes and appendices. Substantially longer papers will not be considered.
5. The author or authors of the paper chosen as the winner of the award will be invited to present the work at the Association’s 2020 meeting which is to be announced soon on the website of the Association. Efforts are being undertaken to provide an honarium and travel expenses for the presentation of the paper. Until that effort bears fruit, however, the Association hopes that home institutional funds would be available to support the researcher’s presentation.
6. The deadline for submission is March 31, 2020. Submissions should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word both to: Lavoro e diritto at lavoroediritto@unife.it, Frank Hendrickx, the President of the Association, at frank.hendrickx@kuleuven.be and, Frank Hendrickx’s secretariat, at  iar@kuleuven.be

RESIDENTIAL SUMMER SCHOOL

International Labor and Business Law

University of Ferrara Ph.D. School in Diritto dell’Unione Europea e ordinamenti nazionali

University of Padova Ph.D. School in Diritto internazionale, diritto privato e diritto del lavoro

 With the support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo

The residential Summer School for PHD students of the Universities of Ferrara (section of Rovigo) and Padova welcomes also Italian and European PhD (and equivalent) students coming from other Universities. Call for Application will be published in April 2016.

The residential school is located at “Casa di Ospitalità San Marco, Monteortone, Abano Terme (Padova).”Monteortone is a village between Rovigo and Padova, easily accessible from the airport of Venice.

Date: From of September 4 to 15, 2016.

Title: Labor and Enterprise in the European and International context.

The seminar aims at deeply discussing and studying all the issues related to regulation of modern multinational and transnational companies and the related topics on labor and social law. The focus will be on European and International experiences developed in a comparative and International (private) law context.

International Faculty: Janice Bellace (USA), Jesus Cruz Villalon (Spain), Barbara Kresal (Slovenia), Brian Langille (Canada).

Every faculty member will give two lectures of 3 hours (9.30 – 12.30). Afternoons will be dedicated to the discussion of morning lectures at the presence of all participants. The active participation of students is require. Tutors of the University of Ferrara and the University of Padova will be present and coordinate afternoon sessions.

Seminar selected topics will be announced in the Call for Application.

Scientific Committee

G.G. Balandi (Università di Ferrara), A. Baylos (Univ. Castilla – La Mancha), A. Bernardi (Università di Ferrara), L. Costato (Università di Ferrara), I. Daugareilh (Université de Bordeaux), S. Deakin (Cambridge University), S. Delle Monache (Università di Padova), M. Finkin (University of Illinois), M. Mantovani (Università di Padova), D. Sarti (Università di Ferrara), A. Topo (Università di Padova).

Info: summerschool.feropd@unife.it

RETROSPECTIVE OVERVIEW

2012 Comparative Labor Law Literature

In keeping with the aims pursued by the Association to promote the exchange of opinions and closer ties between labor law experts from different countries, Lavoro e Diritto (Italy), together with the Revue de Droit Comparé du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale (France), have decided to start an annual overview to address the essential aspects of the issues that occupied a sizeable proportion of the essays appeared in the course the year in the 23 journals belonging to the Association.  The English version is published in the English Electronic Edition of Revue de Droit Comparé du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale at the following website.

 Website Access for Participating Organizations

In addition to receiving printed volumes, all subscribers are given a subscriber’s passcode as a benefit of subscription.

In 2013, the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal announced a program that provides participating organizations with a passcode that allows their members to have electronic access to all past and current articles. Participating in this membership benefit program thus far are:

• Australian Labour Law Association
• Industrial Law Society (United Kingdom)
• International Labour Office (Switzerland)
• Israeli Society for Labor Law and Social Security
• Italian Association of Labor Law and Social Security
• Labor and Employment Relations Association (United States)

Organizations interested in participation should contact the Journal’s Managing Editor, Naomi Young, at law-cllp@illinois.edu.