75 years of «Epitheorissis Ergatikou Dikaiou»

A retrospective view on the future of labour law

Simultaneous retour interpretation will be available (Greek / English)

9:00-10:00 Registration – Receipt of conference material
10:00-10:20 Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:20-10:40 Opening Speech: Antonios Vayas, Ph.D., Attorney, former Editor of ‘Epitheorissis Ergatikou Dikaiou’ (1980-1988): Anniversary Speech for the 75 years of the ‘Labour Law Review’
10:40-14:00 Morning Session

Chair: Antonios Vayas, Ph.D., Attorney, former Editor of ‘Epitheorissis Ergatikou Dikaiou’
10:40 Manfred Weiss, Professor Emeritus of Labour and Civil Law, Law School, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main: The future of labour law
11:00 Ioannis Koukiadis, Professor Emeritus of Labour Law, Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Labour law: from labour protection to employment protection
11:20 Dimitris Travlos-Tzanetatos, Professor Emeritus of Labour Law, Law School, University of Athens: Labour law: from crisis to mutation – Projection of a dystopian future?
11:40 Discussion
12:40-13:30 Coffee break
Chair: Angelos Stergiou, Professor of Social Security Law, Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
13:30 Melchior Wathelet, First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union: Social security benefits and citizenship: the end of an automatism
13:55 Discussion
14:45-17:00 Afternoon Break
17:00-21:00 Afternoon Session

Chair: Michail Stathopoulos, Professor Emeritus of Civil Law, Law School, University of Athens - former Minister of Justice
17:00 Rolf Wank, Professor of Civil, Commercial, Economic and Labour Law, Law School, Ruhr University Bochum: The concept of dependence in labour law: development and comparative law
17:20 Philippos Doris, Professor Emeritus of Civil Law, Law School, University of Athens: The impact of the constitutional principles of equality and proportionality, by means of the general clause of good faith, on the shaping of labour law through the relevant case-law
17:40 Dimitris Zografopoulos, Ph.D., Attorney, Legal Auditor at the Hellenic Data Protection Authority: The interdependence of labour law and personal data protection law
18:00 Discussion
19:00-19:30 Break
Chair: Sofia Koukouli-Spiliotopoulou, Attorney
19:30 Evangelos Angelopoulos, Doctoral candidate, LL.M., Attorney: Economic analysis of labour law: a critique
19:50 Michel Miné, Professor of Labour Law, Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers - Paris: Working time law: current issues
20:10 Discussion
21:00 Welcome reception - cocktail
9:15 Arrival
10:00-14:00 Morning Session

Chair: Panayotis Pikrammenos, Honorary President of the Greek Council of State (Simvoulion tis Epikratias), former Prime Minister
10:00 Petros Stangos, Professor of EU Law and Jean Monnet Chair, Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Vice-President of the European Committee of Social Rights: The accession of the EU to the ESC and the ECHR
10:20 Dimosthenis Lentzis, Lecturer of EU Law, Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: On the (non) control by the European Court of Justice of the measures adopted in response to the financial crisis
10:40 Keith Ewing, Professor of Labour Law, Law School, King’s College London: The European Pillar of Social Rights and Collective Bargaining – Too Little, Too Late?
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
Chair: Michail Vilaras, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union
11:30 Marie-Ange Moreau, Professor Emeritus of Labour Law, Law School, University Lyon-2:
Decent work and social dumping: EU aberrations
11:50 Christina Deliyanni-Dimitrakou, Professor of Comparative Law, Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: The justiciability and horizontal invocability of international and supranational legal provisions protecting fundamental social rights
12:10 Achim Seifert, Professor of Civil, Labour and Comparative Law, Law School, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: Perspectives of European labour law
12:30 Discussion
14:00-16:30 Afternoon Break
16:00-20:40 Afternoon Session

Chair: Gerasimos Fourlanos, Vice-President of the Greek Supreme Court (Areios Pagos)
16:30 Martin Franzen, Professor of Labour Law, Law School, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich: The impact of EU law on the termination of employment contracts
16:50 Nikolaos Gavalas, Ph.D., Attorney: The termination of the employment contract in light of the fundamental labour rights: ILO / ESC / ECHR / EUCFR
17:10 George Theodossis, Lecturer of Labour Law, Law School, Democritus University of Thrace: Termination with cause of the open-ended employment contract
17:30-18:00 Break
Chair: Antonios Roupakiotis, Attorney, former Minister of Justice
18:00 Dimitrios Vassiliou, Attorney: The legal consequences of the unlawful dismissal: comparative views
18:20 Dimitrios Goulas, Ph.D., Attorney: Dismissal due to whistleblowing
18:40 Nicola Countouris, Professor of Labour Law, Law School,University College London /
Aristea Koukiadaki, Senior Lecturer in Employment Law, Law School, University of Manchester:
European labour law as safety net: The case of collective redundancies
19:10 Discussion
9:00 Arrival
9:40-11:30 First Session

Chair: Christina Deliyanni-Dimitrakou, Professor of Comparative Law, Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
9:40 Ioannis Lixouriotis, Professor Emeritus of Labour Law, Panteion University – ex Editor of ‘Epitheorissis Ergatikou Dikaiou’ (1989-1994): Contractual basis of the employment relationship and collective salary
10:00 Kostis Bakopoulos, Assistant Professor of Labour Law, Law School, University of Athens: Strike demands and legality concerns
10:20 Panayotis Bouboucheropoulos, Ph.D., Attorney: Alternative forms of industrial action
10:40 Discussion
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-14:00 Second Session

Chair: Marie-Ange Moreau, Professor Emeritus of Labour Law, Law School, University Lyon-2
12:00 Aris Kazakos, Professor of Labour Law, Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: The ‘old’ and the ‘new’ legal framework for collective agreements and mediation / arbitration
12:20 Matina Yannakourou, Assistant Professor of Labour Law, Law School, European University of Cyprus: Collective bargaining and representativity
12:40 Sylvaine Laulom, Professor of Labour Law, Law School, University Lyon-2: Decentralization of collective bargaining: comparative perspectives
13:00 Discussion – Conclusions – Closing remarks
14:00 End of Conference

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