Invitation to the International Conference Saturday, 15th November 2014, 09h00 – 17h00 Maison de l’Europe 35-37 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75004 Paris, France
0900 Entrance, registration
Morning
09h30 Welcome: Jean Luc Wabant, Lawyer Lille/Paris, SAF, ELW-Coordinating Committee
10h00 Prof. Keith Ewing (Kings College London),
Introduction – Collective Bargaining in times of Austerity
10h45 Isabelle Schoemann (Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels),
Collective Bargaining – comparison of the changes on national level under the impact of the crisis. How can the European law contribute to fight against the regression
11h30 Coffee-Break
12h00 Prof. Filip Dorssemont (Université Catholique de Louvain),
Austerity in the jurisdiction of the ECtHR and the ECJ
13h00 Lunch break
Afternoon
14h00 Dr. Reingard Zimmer (soon Prof. of labour law at Berlin school of Economics and Law),
How it all started – the role of Germany concerning the roll back of labour law in the EU
14h45 Prof. Pascal Lokiec (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre),
How austerity is forcing French unions, works councils and workers to make concessions
15h30 Coffee-Break
16h00 Dr. Francisco Trillo, Profesor Contratado, Castilla La Mancha University (Ciudad Real, Spain)
Spain and other South-European countries as drastic examples of austerity of labour law and collective bargaining
16h45 Isabelle Schoemann (Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels),
Trade Union Strategies in Europe against the policy of austerity
17h30 Conclusions
18h00 End of the conference
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Possible updates of the programme will be published on the website of the ELW-Network, www.elw-network.eu
Organizers:
· ELW-Network, www.elw-network.eu
with support of
· European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights – ELDH, www.eldh.eu
· Syndicat des Avocats de France – SAF, http://www.lesaf.org/accueil.html
· Fonds Interprofessionnel de Formation des Professionnelles Libéraux – FIF PL, http://www.fifpl.fr/
· Vereinigung Demokratischer JuristInnen und Juristen – VDJ, www.vdj.de
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Registration
Registration fee (please transfer to the ELW-Network bank account, see below) or at the conference in cash (only EURO), no credit cards, no checks accepted
All Lawyers (French and others): 200 € (reduced fee for registration and payment until 15th October 2014: 150 €)
The registered participants will receive (as far as available) the speeches held at the conference by email afterwards.
Please transfer the registration fee to the ELW-Network Bank Account until 31stOctober 2014
After this date you can do the payment in cash (only EURO) at the conference
bank account:
ELW – Network, ING (Brussels, Belgium)
IBAN BE14 3631 2954 7883, BIC/SWIFT BBRUBEBB
Reference: ELW-Conference – 6 YEARS OF AUSTERITY
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Registration Form: please send to the ELW-Coordinating Committee (Jan Buelens) until 30th September 2014
fax +032 (0)3 366 10 75, email: , posted letter : address see above
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How to get there:
The Maison de l’Europe is situated in the Marais quarter of Paris, 4th arrondissement
Next Metro Station: Saint Paul, line 1, on the Rue de Rivoli
http://www.paris-europe.eu/008-L-Association/2-Plan-d-Acces.htm
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Hotels, Restaurants nearby: you will receive some suggestions after registration