ISLSSL Regional Congresses

Main theme: “Labor Law, Social Security and Social Protection:
responses and instruments for the challenges of technological transformation,
new forms of business organization and the protection of workers”

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Main theme: “The Lighthouse function of Social Law”

Conference program

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Main theme: “Democracy and work. Dialogues for a new social market economy”

Final Report
Relatório final (versão em português)

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Main theme: “Work and Employment in the Digital Era: Legal Challenges”

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Main theme: “Decent Work in Modern and Developing Countries: Contemporary Legal and Social Challenges”

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Main theme: “New forms of work and the challenge for social and labour protection”

Core themes:

1. “Labour law reinvention in the framework of the global economy”
2. “Gender wage equality and its relationship with productivity”
3. “Prevention and compensation of occupational diseases and accidents”
4. “Labour reforms in the Americas”

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List of themes:

Theme 1: Migrant Workers;

Theme 2: European Works Council;

Theme 3: New forms of Social Security;

Theme 4: The Role of the State in Industrial Relations;

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Report of the Executive Committee Meeting – September 20, 2017

List of themes:

Theme 1: Evolution and transformation of the sources of Labour Law;

Theme 2: Syndicalism in face of the transformation of businesses and the presence of new social actors;

Theme 3: Social security: how to make it to 2050 with a healthy system, economically and socially;

List of themes:

Theme 1: Labour Rights and Human Rights;

Theme 2: The legal and extra legal remedies against discrimination;

Theme 3: Social security issues and state support for the wage-work bargain;

Theme 4: Alternative dispute resolution;

Round Table 1: Whistleblowing

Round Table 2: Economic crisis and labour law reforms;

Round Table 3: Data protection and workplace privacy;

List of themes followed by conference reports:

Keynote speech:Prof. Arturo Bronstein, former Secretary-General and Honorary President of the ISLSSL on “International Human Rights Law and Labour Law”

Workshop: “International Human Rights Law and Labour Law” chaired by Prof. A. Bronstein

First Theme:“The role of jurisprudence in the fight against employment discrimination”
General Rapporteur: Prof. Fernando Bolaños (Costa Rica)
  First Theme – General Report [in Spanish, English version forthcoming]

Second Theme: “Collective representation of workers: Evolution of legal regimes from a viewpoint of the collective autonomy and freedom of association”
General Rapporteur: Prof. Emilio Morgado (Chile)
 Second Theme – General Report [in Spanish, English version forthcoming]

Third Theme: “The self-employed: The legal regime and the extension to the same of rules and institutions of labour law”
General Rapporteur: Prof. Mario Pasco (Peru)
  Third Theme – General Report [in Spanish, English version forthcoming]

Round Table: “Public and private pension systems: Advantages and disadvantages for workers”
Chair: Professeur Humberto Villasmil Prieto, President of the ILO Section of the ISLSSL.

Round Table: “Forms of social protection of the workers in the coming decades from a legal and financial viewpoint and proposals for a solution”
Chair: Prof. Jean Michel Servais, Honorary President of the ISLSSL.

Informal Executive Committee – Guayaquil

List of themes:

1. Labour law and industrial relations in the light of the economic and social changes
2. Collective bargaining rights in a globalized economy
3. Social protection of the unemployed
4. Round Table: Public and private employment services as intermediaries in the hiring of workers
5. Round Table: Groups of people who risk labour and social protection
6. Workshop: The role of the judiciary vis-à-vis the changes in labour law
7. Workshop: Interruptions and suspensions of the employment relationship

List of themes:

1. Current situation and the future of public and private pension systems in the light of the worldwide crisis
2. Public and private systems of settlement of individual and collective labor disputes
3. The protection of worker’s privacy at the workplace
4. Round Table:The so-called “news forms of employment” and their impact on:
   a) individual employments relations
   b) collective labour relations
   c) the social protection of workers concerned
5. Round Table: The use of international law by national courts in the adjudication of labour disputes

List of themes:

1. Implementation of the equal treatment principle in employment and occupation in the EU and EEC Member States
2. Status and protection of migrant workers
3. The impact of demographic trends/developments on pension schemes in Europe
4. Round Table: The impact of information and communication technologies in the field of labour law
5. Round Table: The employer’s responsibilities in complex corporate structures
6. Workshop: Systems of law enforcement under labour law
7. Workshop: Qualification and training of lawyers and legal advisors in the field of labour law

List of themes:

1. The impact of employer economic difficulties on the contract of employment
2. Protection against anti-union discrimination
3. Workers’ protection in case of illness
4. Round Table: What’s new in labour law. Regional perspectives?

List of themes:

1. The participation of women in the labour market – toward the goal of gender equality in employment in the 21st century
2. The impetus for economic restructuring and the protection of workers’ rights
3. The Asian experiences on the old-age security or pension system
4. Round Table: The impact of globalisation on work patterns and labour relations

List of themes:

1. Family allowances
   Processes of social law making and implementation within the European Union
2. Transfer of undertakings: A delicate compromise among individual protection, labour market and economic development
3. Round Table: The new boundaries of employee information and consultation
4. Round Table: Challenges in labour law and collective bargaining in Central European countries arising out of their integration into the European Union
5. Workshop: The respective role of trade union, workers’ representatives, public authorities and other stakeholders in transfers takeovers or other transformations in the structure or size of the enterprise
6. Workshop: Alternative dispute resolution in labour law

List of themes:

1. Special labour relations
2. Internationalization of labour and employment relations within the framework of the Free Trade Agreement for the Americas
3. Social accountability of multinational enterprises: Voluntary codes of labour practices and their private monitoring
4. Round Table: Evolution and recent trends of the labour law in Europe, North America and Latin America
5. Round Table: Social security law: Public service or privatization?

List of themes:

1. How to speed up the procedures in labour litigation?
2. Case law criteria to determine the existence of an employment relationship

List of themes:

1. The autonomy of the collective agreement
2. Justifications for sex discrimination in the working life
3. Freedom of movement and transfer of social security rights

List of themes:

1. The right to work: Jobs vs. labour standards
2. Re-examining the role of trade unions in society with emphasis in the informal sector
3. The protection of children in labour law
4. Round Table: Globalization: Its effects/impact on the international and national labour standards and social security

List of themes:

1. Individual labour contracts current issues: The boundaries between dependent and independent work
2. Basic rights and international commerce: Synchronization between economic efficiency and social protection
3. Relations between individual and collective labour rights and the social security
4. Round Table: New forms of work and the labour law
5. Debate: Recent evolutions of the labour law in the European Union

List of themes:

1. Social dialogue – economic interdependence and labour law
2. Wage employment and self-employment
3. Reforms of social security systems
4. Round Table: Prospects of the European Union and the Council of Europe’s labour law

List of themes:

1. The principle of celerity in labour litigation
2. Legal assistance to workers
3. The principles of procedural labour law

List of themes:

1. Globalization and individual labour law
2. Globalization and collective bargaining
3. Administrative and financial issues in social security
4. Round Table: The Labour Clause, the Social Charter and ILO standards in integration and free-trade schemes

List of themes:

1. The future of labour law
2. The future of the dismissal law
3. The future of the social security law
4. Panel Discussion: Labour law: Further separation from civil law?

List of themes:

1. Technological changes and social protection
2. The labour policy issues for the old-age worker
3. Law and the protection of non-regular workers
4. Panel Discussion: The impact of economic globalization on labour standards

List of themes:

1. The employee’s right to privacy
2. The future of collective bargaining and new forms of employment
3. Health care: Public and/or private systems?
4. Panel Discussion: The labour law aspects of the regional economic integration

List of themes:

1. Labour law and developments in Europe:
   a) with reference to the sole European Market
   b) with reference to the change from a centralised to a market economy
2. Labour law in small and medium-sized undertakings: Flexibility or adjustment
3. The role of social security in the struggle against unemployment
4. Panel Discussion: Those excluded from labour law and social security

List of themes:

1. The origins of labour law in Africa
2. Principles of labour law and African realities
3. Role and functions of the state in industrial relations in Africa
4. Problems of medical insurance in Africa

List of themes:

1. Statutory regulation of wages in Asian countries
2. Dismissal procedures and termination benefits in Asian countries
3. Settlement of labour disputes in Asian countries
4. Panel Discussion: Investment and labour law: Foreign enterprises and industrial relations in Asia

List of themes:

1. The settlement of collective labour disputes in the public sector and services
2. Social protection vis-à-vis illness, invalidity, old age and death
3. Individual labour disputes: Settlement by courts or collective agreements
4. Social consequences of structural adjustment policies
5. Panel Discussion: The purposes of labour law

List of themes:

1. Trends towards deregulation and their impact on the theory of the sources of labour law
2. Legislative and judicial modifications concerning trade union activities and the freedom of strike
3. New forms of recruitment and precarious employment relations
4. Restructuring of enterprises and its impact on employment
5. Flexibilisation of working time
6. Respective role of public authorities and private initiative in social security policy

List of themes:

1. The role of collective agreements in the national economy
2. Prevention of anti-union practices
3. The impact of new technologies on conditions of work and employment
4. The protection of workers’ claims in crises of enterprises through social security machinery

List of themes:

1. The legal status of workers’ and employers’ organizations
2. Labour law aspects of safety and health protection
3. The situation of the worker in case of sickness
4. The publication of labour laws in Asian countries
5. Panel Discussion: The general theory of labour law: Recent developments in ideas about the functions of labour law

List of themes:

1. Technological change and the employment relationship
2. Hiring procedures
3. Employers’ responsibility regarding occupational accidents

List of themes:

1. Labour relations in the public sector of the economy, with particular reference to workers’ rights and responsibilities
2. Child labour
3. Old-age benefit schemes
4. Panel Discussion: Asian approach to labour relations

List of themes:

1. Methods of comparative labour laws
2. Conflict of laws in labour law
3. Current problems of retirement

List of themes:

1. Labour relations in essential services
2. Employment injuries: Benefits and rehabilitation
3. New forms and aspects of atypical employment relations

List of themes:

1. Settlement of labour disputes
2. Codification of labour law
3. The position of women in labour law and social security