European Union - Twenty-Second Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 19 June 2007.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
FOREWORD—WHAT THIS REPORT IS ABOUT
CHAPTER 1: SETTING THE SCENE
Why we carried out our Inquiry
What the Commission Green Paper says
UK labour law as it is now
How we conducted our Inquiry
Table 1: Labour market regulations introduced
in the UK during the period 1998-2006
Table 2: EU employment-related Directives
for which the DTI has UK responsibility
CHAPTER 2: THE DEVELOPMENT OF 21ST CENTURY
LABOUR MARKETS
Economic context, technological change
and globalisation
New working practices
Economic and employment insecurity
Responding to change
Labour market flexibility
Different policy "models"
The consequences of employment protection
legislation
CHAPTER 3: LABOUR LAW AND THE UK ECONOMY
Economic and labour market performance
Labour law and the labour market
The effects of labour law on productivity
CHAPTER 4: FLEXIBILITY AND EMPLOYMENT
SECURITY—"FLEXICURITY"
The Danish flexicurity model
Does the UK already have flexicurity?
Flexicurity: what lessons for the UK?
CHAPTER 5: THE NEED FOR LABOUR LAW REFORM
AND THE ROLE OF THE EU
The UK's "targeted approach"
to labour law
A "floor of rights" for workers?
More convergent definitions of "worker"
Collective labour law
Small businesses and the "proportionality"
of labour law
Regulation of working time
CHAPTER 6: ISSUES FOR GROUPS WITHIN THE
LABOUR MARKET
Defining self-employment
Employment contracts vs. commercial contracts
CHAPTER 7: ADDRESSING LABOUR MARKET DISADVANTAGE
How segmented is the UK labour market?
Labour law and the employability challenge
Help for vulnerable workers and migrant workers
CHAPTER 8: EU LEGISLATION: ITS FORMULATION
IN BRUSSELS AND IMPLEMENTATION IN THE UK
Formulating EU employment regulation
Small business and the social partners
"Gold plating"
CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Chapter 1—Setting the scene
Chapter 2—The development of 21st
century labour markets
Chapter 3—Labour law and the UK economy
Chapter 4—Flexibility and employment
security—"flexicurity"
Chapter 5—The need for labour law reform
and the role of the EU
Chapter 6—Issues for groups within
the labour market
Chapter 7—Addressing labour market
disadvantage
Chapter 8—EU Legislation: its formulation
in Brussels and its implementation in the UK
APPENDIX 1: CALL FOR EVIDENCE
APPENDIX 2: LIST OF WITNESSES
APPENDIX 3: RECENT REPORTS
Oral Evidence
Professor Len Shackleton, Dean of University
of Westminster Business School and Mr Nigel Meager, Director,
Institute for Employment Studies
Oral Evidence, 22 March 2007
Supplementary written evidence, Professor Shackleton
Ms Susan Anderson, Director of Human Resources Policy and Mr Tom
Moran, Senior Policy Adviser, CBI
Written evidence
Oral Evidence, 29 March 2007
Mr Alan Tyrrell QC, Chairman and Miss Lucie Goodman, Policy Development
Officer, Federation of Small Businesses
Written evidence
Oral Evidence, 19 April 2007
Supplementary written evidence
Mr Owen Tudor, Head of European and International Relations, Ms
Hannah Reed, Senior Employment Rights Officer and Mr Richard Exell,
Senior Policy Officer, TUC
Written evidence
Oral Evidence, 26 April 2007
Supplementary written evidence
Mr Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Minister for Employment Relations and Miss
Jane Whewell, Director, European Strategy and Labour Market Flexibility,
Department for Trade and Industry
Written evidence
Oral Evidence, 3 May 2007
Supplementary written evidence
Written Evidence
Amicus
Dr Diamond Ashiagbor
Dr Catherine Barnard and Professor Simon Deakin
Dr Alan L Bogg
Brethren Christian Fellowship
British Retail Consortium
Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union
BusinessEurope
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Confederation of West Midlands Chambers of Commerce
Construction Confederation
EEF, the manufacturers' organisation
Eurociett
Professor M R Freedland and Dr N Kountouris
Institute of Employment Rights
Institute of Interim Management
Italian Lawyers
The Law Society of Scotland and The Law Society
Ms Liz Lynne MEP
National Farmers' Union
Dr Wanjiru Njoya
Professional Contractors Group
Professor Silvana Sciarra
Recruitment and Employment Confederation
Unquoted Companies Group
NOTE: References in the text of the Report are as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in the oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
WRITTEN EVIDENCE
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