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European Industrial Relations Dictionary

Designed as an easy-to-use online reference tool, the European industrial relations dictionary is a comprehensive collection of the most commonly used terms in employment and industrial relations at EU level today. It contains over 350 entries, featuring concise definitions and relevant contextual information, with hyperlinks to EU legislation and case law.
The product of a collaborative effort between acknowledged experts in the field, the dictionary is aimed at policymakers, practitioners and all those interested in the history and evolving structure of the European Union.
Background information is provided on the industrial relations context, institutional framework, legal framework, collective industrial relations, individual employment relations, the enterprise, free movement of workers, discrimination and equality in employment, health and safety and movement towards an EU system of employment and industrial relations.

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Title Date of publication
Access to employment 12 January 2011
Access to the judicial process 04 May 2011
Accession 12 January 2011
Acquired Rights Directive 11 March 2007
Acquis communautaire 11 March 2007
Active ageing 20 June 2018
Adaptability 22 February 2019
Advocate general of the CJEU 07 July 2020
Agreement on Social Policy 29 November 2013
Albany case 11 March 2007
Alert Mechanism Report 09 April 2014
Algorithmic management 15 December 2022
Annual Growth Survey 09 April 2014
Annual leave 02 December 2019
Apprenticeship 11 September 2013
Articulation 20 February 2019
Artificial intelligence 12 January 2022
Asbestos 11 March 2007
Atypical contracts 01 September 2017
Atypical work 24 November 2017
Automation 09 January 2019
Autonomous agreement 18 June 2021
Basic income 31 July 2019
Better Regulation 08 February 2017
Blue card 20 September 2011
Blue economy 27 November 2017
Brexit and labour standards 18 June 2021
Broad Economic Policy Guidelines 09 April 2014
Burden of proof 11 March 2007
BUSINESSEUROPE 11 June 2015