Sustainability and Uncertainty in Governing European Employment Law – The Community Method as Instrument of Governance: The Case of the EU Working Time Directive
J.-C. Barbier, R. Rogowski, F. Colomb (eds.) The Sustainability of the European Social Model, Elgar 2015
37 Pages Posted: 23 Jun 2015
Date Written: May 22, 2015
Abstract
The chapter contains a comparative account of the EU working time directive (WTD) and its implementation in four member states of the EU. History and reform attempts of the WTD are introduced in order to analyse the community method as an instrument of governance in the EU. The main finding of the chapter is that failed attempts at the supranational level in reforming the WTD and ideological resistance at member state level have created legal and political uncertainty and have undermined sustainability in governing European employment law.
Keywords: WTD, EU working time directive
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