Projects
Disability in labour law. Legal research into the reintegration of disabled employees on the labour market. KU Leuven
Disability and re-integration in labour law. Legal research into the reintegration of disabled employees on the labour market. KU Leuven
Our labour market has to face a number of challenges as a result of the ageing of the population and the increased globalization. International and European policy makers call upon the national countries to allow as many people as possible to participate in the labour market. This is usually referred to as the re-integration concept. This raises the question of whether Belgian labour law complies with the re-integration concept, moreover ...
Labour law and sports law KU Leuven
This research project investigates the connection between labour law and sports law. With sports understood as both an economic and social activity, this research examines how relations between athletes, clubs and federations in the world of sport have to be understood. It will be examined whether and how labour law applies to the world of sport and whether and how this interplay contributes to the broader understanding of ...
Robotization and labour law : A legal study on humanization of work and technology KU Leuven
This study deals with robotisation and labour law. Robots have been part of workplaces for several decades and are therefore not a new phenomenon. In recent years, however, some technological developments can be observed that make robots increasingly autonomous. For instance, they are equipped with sensors that can better perceive their surroundings. They can additionally give more meaning to this perceived information through various ...
The Role of the Court of Justice in EU Labour Law - A case study on the transfer of undertaking directive KU Leuven
The main theme of this dissertation is to seek an answer to the following central research question: What role does the Court of Justice play in relation to the definition of the normative model with respect to labour law within the European Union? The interest in approaching this issue, the nature of which is rather complex, derives from two distinct premises that permeate EU labour law studies. The first is that labour law was originally ...
Nullity in Labour Law Ghent University
The nullity of obligations is an important doctrine in general contract law. Nullity occurs as a sanction for an agreement/obligation/legal act that fails to meet all the requirements for validity at its formation, resulting in it having no legal effect. There has been limited scholarly research conducted on nullity in Belgian (individual and collective) labour law and the extent to which its application in this field differs from the general ...
International, European and Comparative Labour Law KU Leuven
Reserach covering a variety of issues of international, European and comparative labour law including case law, currently focusing on questions of in-work poverty, platform work, algorithmic management, the social rights of self-employed workers, multi-party work relationships, vocational training systems, and social and labour aspects of the green transition.