This new edition of EC Employment Law provides a complete revision and update of the leading English language text in the field. The coverage in the new edition has been expanded with material on all the latest developments, including the new Equality Directives, the development of the European Employment Strategy, the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as well as more traditional regulatory techniques. It also analyses the ever expanding body of employment case law. The book begins with an examination of the development of EC employment law focusing on the shift from employment law to employment policy. The text then considers rule-making in the field of employment law considering both the traditional routes to legislation and the new governance techniques, including the OMC. The book considers the substantive area of employment law, considering the free movement of persons, equal treatment, health and safety and working conditions, the restructuring of enterprises, worker participations and collective action. Throughout, the book addresses the fundamental question as to the purpose of EC employment law: is it primarily economic, social or both?

Part One: Introduction 1. The Evolution of 'EC' Social Policy 2. 'Hard' Law-making in the Field of Social Policy 3. The Employment Title and the Lisbon Strategy: (Soft) Law-making in the Field of Social Policy Part Two: Migrant Workers 4. Free Movement of (Economically Active) Persons 5. Limitations on Free movement Part Three: Equality Law 6. Equality Law: An Introduction 7. Equal Pay 8. Equal Treatment 9. Family Friendly Policies 10. Equal Treatment in Respect of Social Security and Pensions Part Four: Health and Safety and Working Conditions 11. Health and Safety 12. Working Conditions Part Five: Employee Rights on Restructuring Enterprises 13. Transfers of Undertakings 14. Collective Redundancies and Employees' Rights on the Employer's Insolvency Part Six: Collective Labour law 15. Worker Involvement in Decision-Making: Information, Consultation and Worker Participation 16. Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining and Collective Action

Catherine Barnard , Fellow of Trinity College, Reader in European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair of European Law, University of Cambridge