Individual Dismissal Law and the Financial Crisis: An Evaluation of Recent Developments

Abstract

This article offers an evaluation of recent developments in the individual dismissal laws of certain Southern European states (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain), with special regard to the reforms adopted in response to the economic crisis. The paper first highlights the influence of the European Commission on national dismissal laws. It then focuses on four selected major changes in national individual dismissal laws, which have been suggested by the Troika. The reforms of dismissal law are assessed – within the limited scope of the present article – from both an economic and a fundamental rights perspective. Finally, in the summary the general findings of the paper are presented.

Change of employer and preservation of employment: Serbian experience in light of European law

“…The most powerful instruments for defending job security are the rules on termination of employment at the initiative of the employer. In spite of the hotly contested developments in the past several years (see especially Laulom 2014;Kovács 2016), still one of the objectives of labour law is, in fact, to guarantee the stability of open-ended employment contracts (Martinon 2005, 30;Weiss 2013, 278). Therefore, job security appears as an important segment of employee protection in case of change of employer.…”