Enforcing (EU) non-discrimination law: Mutual learning between British and Italian labour law?

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dc.contributor.authorSchiek, Dagmar
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T10:12:06Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T10:12:06Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2021-03-28T22:37:37Z
dc.description.abstractWhile substantive EU non-discrimination law has been harmonized in great detail, the enforcement regime for EU non-discrimination law consists merely of a few isolated elements. Thus, the pursuit of unity through harmonization in substantive EU law is accompanied by considerable regulatory autonomy for Member States in securing the efficiency of those laws, reflecting the diversity of national enforcement regimes, and resulting in twenty-seven different national models for enforcing discrimination law in labour markets. This article pursues two connected arguments through a comparison of rules for enforcing non-discrimination law in labour markets in Britain and Italy. First, it argues that enforcing non-discrimination law in labour markets is best achieved when responsive governance, repressive regulation and mainstreaming equality law are combined. Second, the article submits that diversity of national legal orders within the EU is not necessarily detrimental, as it offers opportunities for mutual learning across legal systems. The notion of mutual learning across systems is proposed in order to analyse the transnational migration of legal ideas within the EU. Such migration has been criticized in debates about the 'transplantation' of legal concepts or legal irritation through foreign legal ideas, in particular by comparative labour lawyers. However, EU harmonization policies in the field of non-discrimination law aim to impact on national labour laws. The article develops the notion of mutual learning across legal systems in order to establish conditions for transnational migration of legal ideas, and demonstrates the viability of these concepts by applying them to the field of non-discrimination law.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationSchiek, D. (2012) 'Enforcing (EU) Non-discrimination Law: Mutual Learning between British and Italian Labour Law?', International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 28 (4), pp. 489-511.en
dc.identifier.endpage512en
dc.identifier.issn0952-617X
dc.identifier.issued4en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relationsen
dc.identifier.startpage489en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11164
dc.identifier.volume28en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherKluwer Law Internationalen
dc.relation.urihttps://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/International+Journal+of+Comparative+Labour+Law+and+Industrial+Relations/28.4/IJCL2012026
dc.rights© 2012. Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands.en
dc.subjectEU non-discrimination lawen
dc.subjectLabour marketsen
dc.subjectComparative labour lawsen
dc.subjectEU harmonizationen
dc.subjectNon-discrimination lawen
dc.titleEnforcing (EU) non-discrimination law: Mutual learning between British and Italian labour law?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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