• A life long : memoirs --
• Along the dender and the dijle -- What can I do for you? -- What can we do together? -- Can I still do something for you?

As global power relations increasingly favour international capital, it becomes crucial for labour and employment lawyers to centre their field in a supranational context. As long as wages, social security, and taxes remain national matters, states compete at this level in order to attract foreign investment. This does not bode well for employees or the self-employed. Most ameliorative measures come in the form of unenforceable soft law guidelines and recommendations. The conference recorded in this vitally important book confronts this losing battle of local responses to global challenges. The book reprints the papers submitted to that conference by twenty-three outstanding scholars from fourteen countries.Among the many critical issues they expose and discuss are the following: the proliferation of varieties of non-standard employment; protection of migrant workers' rights by regional organizations; global and regional trends in the human resources function; work training and education policy; effectiveness of equality and non-discrimination standards; involvement of employees in workplace decision making; and the need for an equitable social safety net.In the course of the discussion, the authors examine cases from many countries, including not only EU Member States (both West and East) and the U. S., but also Japan, Chile, South Africa, and Indonesia. With a focus on the nexus of multinational enterprises and international standards, the book provides both a sharp image of where labour law stands in today's world revealing serious social problems in a clearer light than is usually encountered and a very valuable guide to directions to pursue and potential solutions, offered by some of the most engaged and committed minds in the field. It is an indispensable resource for legal workers in this eye of the storm of globalization.
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• Part I Sport - Its Main Social and Political Elements: Importance of Sport-- The European Model of Sport-- Negative Aspects - Human Trafficking-- Bosman - The End of the Transfer System?-- In the Wake of Bosman - The Flemish Community and French Community Decrees-- The Belgian Collective Agreement on the Terms and Conditions of Employment of Professional Footballers (12 June 1998)-- Political Favouritism towards Football-- Problems - Bosman Bypassed, Sale of Players during the Course of the Contract of Employment-- About-turn - Footballers' Freedom Once Again Restricted-- The Agreement of
• 5 March
• 2001 between FIFA and the European Commission-- The FIFA Transfer Regulations, New Style-- Assessment of the New Transfer System and its Motivation. Part II The Status of Professional Sportsmen and Sportswomen: Sources of Law-- Classification as a "Worker" [Employed Person]-- Employment of Foreign Nationals-- Legal Capacity - Minors-- Contract of Employment-- Freedom of Movement for Workers, No discrimination based on nationality-- Terms and Conditions of Employment-- Fundamental Rights-- Disciplinary Powers-- Loan of Players-- The End of the Contract of Employment-- Transfer Fee-- Training Compensation-- Non-competition Clause-- Dispute Resolution-- Placement Services and the Status of Players' Agents. Part III The Status of Amateur Sportsmen and Sportswomen: General Comments-- Belgian Regional Law - The Flemish Community Decree of
• 24 July 1996-- Belgian Regional Law - The French Community Decree of
• 26 April 1999-- International Law - The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Although the European Court of Justice ruled in Bosman (1995) that professional sportsmen and sportswomen are free at the end of their contracts, they are still at the mercy of the clubs that employ them. Such pretexts as the "special nature" of sport publicly urged by such European eminences as Tony Blair and Gerhard Schroder have institutionalized the human trafficking of players, depriving them of basic rights guaranteed under all the laws enjoyed by Europeans. They may be well-paid as long as they are in the limelight, but they have no surety. They can be, and are, bought and sold repeatedly, each time returning profits to those who trade in their athletic prowess. In this searing indictment, Professor Blanpain underscores the demonstrable illegality of the current transfer system imposed by the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA). He describes in detail the complex ramifications of FIFA's rules in the lives of players, clearly revealing how the fundamental rights of players to free movement and freedom of labour are systematically denied. He calls for the courts, from the European Court of Justice on down, to recognize this illegality and act to enforce the Bosman judgement. Professor Blanpain examines all the crucial legal issues involved. These include the following: the classification of sportsmen and sportswomen as "workers"; the nature of the contract between player and club; the legal capacity of minors to enter into an employment contract; the trade in foreign (frequently African and South American) players with no legal rights in Europe; disciplinary rules; training compensation fees; placement and status of players' agents; dispute resolution; and conflicts with competition law. An extensive array of documents, including the FIFA Transfer Regulations and material leading to the March 2001 agreement between FIFA and the European Commission, is included in a series of annexes.
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• Part I: The Bosman saga. Importance of the case. The facts. The contract with RFC Liege. The dispute. The position adopted by the Belgian Football Association. Summary of the arguments submitted by the BFA. The transfer system from an economic perspective. The opinion of Advocate General Carl Otto Lenz. The ECJ decision. Legal principles. Consequences. Part II: Applicable legislation. Part III: Association and Federation Rules. Part IV: Case law. Part V: European Parliament.
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This book provides an analysis, supported by substantial primary source materials of a significant issue affecting the sports and leisure industry and rooted in contract and competition law. The judgment of the European Court of Justice on December 15, 1995 settled the European dimension of a fierce legal battle, waged by Jean Marc Bosman, a Belgian professional footballer to secure his freedom of labour. The landmark decision will have extended ramifications and will be of international interest to sports lawyers and of practical interest to contract and competition practitioners.
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This text gives the reader a broad understanding of Belgian labour law covering all important aspects. The book deals with the sources of labour law, individual employment relationship, collective bargaining, remuneration, working conditions and dispute settlement. It provides advocates and administrators, management and labour, and especially students with an overview of all aspects of Belgian labour law, and, to some extent, of its social, economic and political context.
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• Part 1 Europe - problems and perspectives: permanent transition-- contradiction and mismatches-- where are we going?-- facts - new international realities-- objective - security and stability-- challenges - exernal, internal-- Central and Eastern Europe-- East and West in the same boat-- flexibility-- managerial unilateralism - a new role for trade unions?-- no countervailing power-- national systems - diversity-- a European system of industrial relations?
• Part 2 The European Union: the Maastricht Treaty-- objectives.
• Part 3 The European Community: objectives-- subsidiarity-- the "acquis communautaire".
• Part 4 The new social dimension: the protocol on social policy-- extension of social competence.
• Part 5 European collective agreements - a general framework: introductory remarks-- parties to the agreement-- the competence to conclude collective agreements-- the Maastricht deal - specific legal problems. Appendices: Protocol on economic and social cohesion-- UNICE, the ETUG and CEEP joint proposal of the Draft Treaty for European Political Union (31 October 1991)-- protocol on social policy-- agreement on social policy concluded between the Member States of the European Community with the exception of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland-- declarations-- protocol concerning Article
• 119 of the Treaty establishing the European Community.
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This work deals with the Maastricht Protocol on social policy, which gave birth to a new social dimension for the Community minus the United Kingdom. Content and impact of this Maastricht Protocol are examined in connection with the social policy and the agreement between the 11. Both the societal and political framework are dealt with, namely the European Community and the European Union. Objectives and subsidiarity are analyzed and the new social dimension of the Community is covered. Other topics discussed include majority voting, new role of the Commission, greater involvement of social partners, consultation at Community level, implementation of directives and the social dialogue, economic and social cohesion, vocational traning and Barber Case.
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• Introduction
• Transnational collective labour relations
• A comparative analysis between international framework agreements and European framework agreements at company level
• Legal issues concerning international framework agreements and European framework agreements at company level.