ISLSSL World Congresses

List of Themes:

1. The ways to achieve social justice in the world of work: current trends
2. Social protection systems: lessons learned and new ideas
3. The new trends in the Collective Labour Law
4. Occupational health issues
5. Digitalization, AI and employment

List of Themes:

1. Transformation of Work: Challenges to Labour Law
2. Global Trade and Work
3. New challenges of social security
4. Migrant Workers
5. Non-Standard and Informal Workers
6. Equality at Work
7. The State and New Forms of Collective Voice

List of Themes:

1. Informal Workers
2. Migrant Workers
3. Global Trade and Labour
4. Organization, Productivity and Well-Being at Work
5. Transnational Collective Agreements
6. New Forms of Social Security
7. The Role of the State and Industrial Relations

Programme of the XXII World Congress

List of Themes:

1. Collective bargaining – and beyond?
2. Social security: Which way forward?
3. Equality and citizenship at work as conceptual foundations for labour law
4. Labour law and development
5. Round Table: Have ILO principles contributed to workable labour relations? A case study of South Africa’s Labour Relations Act 20 years on

Position Papers:

Prof. Alain Supiot
-What International Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century?

Prof. Tiziano Treu
– Labour law and social policies: An agenda for transnational research

List of Themes: 

1. The effectiveness of labour law and the role of labour inspection
2. Mobbing and sexual harassment in the workplace
3. The strike as a fundamental right and its potential for conflict with other fundamental rights of citizens

List of Themes: 

1. Regulatory frameworks and law enforcement in new forms of employment
2. Workers’ representation and social dialogue at the workplace level
3. Emerging patterns of social protection in light of structural changes (aging population, changing family structures, immigration, budgetary constraints, political and ideological realignments)
4. Round Table: Work and family life
5. Workshop: What’s new in labour law?

List of Themes:

1. Trade liberalization and labour law and social security
2. Labour law (in its individual and collective aspects) and productive decentralization
3. Occupational risks: Social protection and the employer’s liability
4. Round Table: What future for statutory regulation in the field of labour law?

Questionnaires:

Theme 1 Questionnaire

Theme 2 Questionnaire

Theme 3 Questionnaire

List of Themes:

1. The agents of collective bargaining
2. Labour law and the fundamental rights of the person
3. Social protection for the unemployed
4. Round Table: Labour law vis-à-vis new forms of corporate organization
5. Round Table: Challenges and perspectives of the labour law

List of Themes:

1. Industrial relations, including collective disputes, in the public sector
2. Similarities and differences between labour contracts and civil and commercial contracts
3. Retirement pensions (social security): national schemes, social insurances and private funds
4. Round Table: Labour market and continuous education

List of Themes:

1. Discrimination in employment
2. International dimensions of collective bargaining: Legal aspects
3. Human rights and social security
4. Panel Discussion: Labour law and the informal sector

List of Themes:

1. Promotion and regulation of job creation opportunities
2. Migrant workers (labour law issues)
3. Social security in the year 2000: Potentialities and problems (including international harmonisation)
4. Panel Discussion: Respective influence of foreign and indigenous factors in the development of labour law and social security

List of Themes:

1. The impact of economic difficulties in the enterprise on working conditions
2. Methods of settlement of collective interest disputes
3. Legal problems of regulation and implementation of a minimum income for everyone
4. Panel Discussion: Labour law, social security and economy

List of Themes:

1. Sanctions for violations or non-compliance with labour regulations
2. Workers’ inventions
3. Voluntary pension funds and their relation with compulsory social security schemes
4. Panel Discussion: General labour law theory today. Recent developments and trends in the concept of labour law function

List of Themes:

1. Procedures and structures of collective bargaining at enterprise and plant level
2. New aspects of atypical employment relationships
3. Employment injuries – Benefits and rehabilitation
4. Methods of comparative labour law

List of Themes:

1. Workers’ participation in decisions within undertakings
2. Termination of employment on the initiative of the employer and income security of the workers concerned
3. The position of women in labour law and social security

List of Themes:

1. Arbitration and the role of courts: The administration of justice in labour law
2. The situation of the worker in the case of sickness
3. The codification of the labour law

List of Themes:

1. Rights and functions of trade unions and their representatives at enterprise level
2. Mergers and other changes in structure and in control of enterprises and their effect upon workers
3. The adjudication of social insurance claims

List of Themes:

1. The development of workers’ protection with particular reference to technological advance
2. The role of “fault” in social security legislation
3. Wage policy: The role of the State and of the employers’ and employees’ organizations

List of Themes:

1. Legal aspects of the calculation of social security benefits, in particular as regards changes in the cost of living and the level of wages
2. The difference in the treatment of various categories of employees (manual and non-manual workers, supervisory personnel, managerial staff, public employees, etc.) with regard to law and collective bargaining as well as to industrial practice in general
3. The present state of law teaching and research in labour law and social security law, and the relations between these disciplines and the surrounding social sciences

List of Themes:

1. Relationship between trade unions and their members
2. The settlement of disputes concerning the exercise of disciplinary powers by the employers, including dismissal
3. Liability of the individual employee for damage done to the employer, to fellow employees and to third parties
4. The impact of the law of social security on the legal position of the employer in connection with industrial accidents and occupational diseases

List of Themes:

1. Individual labour relations
2. Collective labour relations
3. Social security
4. The State and the organization of insurance against work injuries
5. Labour relations and social security in non-metropolitan territories
6. Federal and supra-national structures and social legislation

List of Themes:

1. Content, legal effects, application and execution of collective agreements
2. Conflicts of laws in labour matters; international standards and general principles

List of Themes:

1. Individual contract of employment
2. Collective agreement
3. Social security
4. Free-choice themes

List of Themes:

1. Creation of an international labour law
2. Creation of a common labour law
3. Codification of labour law