The value of the positions of the International human rights bodies for national labour law

The value of the positions of the International human rights bodies for national labour law

Il 22 e il 23 giugno si terrà la Conferenza Internazionale intitolata “The value of the positions of the International human rights bodies for national labour law”, presso il Campus Principe di Napoli, unimercatorum.

Programma dell’evento “The value of the positions of the International human rights bodies for national labour law”

22 giugno 2023

15.30-15.45
WELCOME SPEECH
Giovanni Cannata – Magnifico Rettore Universitas Mercatorum

15.45-16.00
OPENING ADDRESS
Francesco Fimmanò – Scientific Director Universitas Mercatorum
Marco Mocella – Universitas Mercatorum

16.00-18.15
PANEL 1. THE VALUE OF POSITIONS OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEES AND THEIR IMPACT ON NATIONAL LAW OR JURISPRUDENCE

Moderator:
Nikita Lyutov – Associate Professor, M. Narikbayev KAGZUU University, Astana, Kazakhstan

Speakers:
Sebastian Rombouts – Associate Professor, Tilburg University
Enchancing the impact of the UN Human Rights system for workers: An assessment of the effects of recognizing the right to a safe and healthy working environment as fundamental principle and right at work

Emanuele Menegatti – Professor, University of Bologna
The evolutionary interpretation of International Human Rights Covenants: may we deduce the right to decent income?

Dmitri Bartenev – Associate Professor, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Domestic implementation of the UN treaty bodies jurisprudence in Russia. looking forward with cautious optimism

Murtaza Mohiqi – Assistant Professor, Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies, University of South-Eastern Norway, USN, Norway

Mohammad Mustafa Mohiqi – Researcher at L’Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
Promoting Ethical Al: Harnessing UN Human Rights Committees to Safeguard Labor Rights

Elena Sychenko – Associate Professor, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Questioning the efficiency of the report system under the Human Rights Covenants

Aleydis Nissen – Research Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium
The impact of the CRC and child labour

Felice Testa – Associate Professor, European University, Rome, Italy
Human rights support for the legal protection against harassment at work: the Italian experience

18.00-18.15
DISCUSSION

20.30
DINNER

23 giugno 2023

9.00-10.00
BREAKFAST

10.00-12.45
PANEL 2. THE IMPACT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABD THE ECTHR ON NATIONAL LABOUR LAW AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF ENSURING COMPLIANCE

Moderator:
Elena Sychenko – Associate Professor, Saint Petersburg State University

Keynote speech:
Dr. Roberto Caldas – Former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Speakers:
Maria Rosaria Barbato – Associate Professor, UFMG, Brazil
The interpretation of the right to strike by the IACtHIR and its possbile impact on memeber states

Romulo Nei Barbosa de Freitas Filho – Instituto Italobrasiliano di diritto del lavoro, Italy-Brazil
The impact of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Brazilian Labour Law and the difficulties in ensuring compliance

Joe Atkinson – Lecture in Law, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Taking Conventions Rights Seriously at Work: the ECHR and the Personal Scope of Labour Law

Ceren Kasim – Research Associate, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Examining the Impact of European Court of Human Rights Rulings on Turkish Labour Laws: Stance on Discrimination

Aleksey Dolzhikov – Associate Professor, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
The influence of the proportionality principle developed in the CoE on constitutional labour rights adjudication in Russia

Marianne Hrdlicka – Teaching and Research Associate at WU Vienna, Austria
The impact of the ECtHR on national anti-discrimination laws – with a focus on the discriminatory criterion of sexual orientation

12.45-13.00
DISCUSSION

13.00-14.00
LUNCH

14.00-16.00
PANEL 3. THE IMPACT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF SOCIAL RIGHTS ON NATIONAL LABOUR LAW OR JURISPRUDENCE AND THE POINTS OF RESISTANCE

Moderator:
Emanuele Menegatti –Professor, University of Bologna

Keynote speech:
Dr. Karin Lukas – Former President of the European Committee of Social Rights, Council of Europe, Head of Programme Lines “Business and Development Cooperation” and “Social Justice” Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights

Speakers:
Marcin Wujczyk – Associate Professor of Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland – Former member of the European Committee of Social Rights
Interpretative Approach to labour rights by the European Committee of Social Rights and its Impact on national legislation

Filip Dorsemont – Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
The impact of Article 6 RESC on the issue of Belgian strike law

Nikolaos A. Papadopoulos – Researcher at European University Cyprus; International Consultant to the Council of Europe Department on the European Social Charter, Cyprus 
Tracing the Impact of the Decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights on National Labour Jurisprudence in France, Greece, Italy and Spain: A Streamlining Exercise

Gaabriel Tavits – Professor, University of Tartu, Estonia
The impact of the European Committee of Social Rights and the European Court of Human Rights on Estonian labour law

Joana Neto – Nova School of Law, Lisbon/CEDIS – Centre for Research on Law and Society (CEDIS), Portugal
The impact of the European Committee of Social Rights on Portugal’s national labour law, namely on the discrimination at workplace against people with disabilities or illnesses

Evelien Timbermont – Assistant Professor social law Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Workplace surveillance in Belgium: Analysis of the restrictions on employees’ right to privacy at work against the backdrop of the case law of the ECtHR and the ECSR

15.30-15.45
DISCUSSION

15.45-16.00
COFFEE BREAK

16.00-18.00
PANEL 3. THE IMPACT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF SOCIAL RIGHTS ON NATIONAL LABOUR LAW OR JURISPRUDENCE AND THE POINTS OF RESISTANCE

For young scholars
Young Scholars research seminar on the methodology of research in international labour law

For all other participants
Group work on the promotion of international human tights standars at the national level

18.00-18.15
PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE GROUP WORK

18.15-18.30
CLOSURE OF THE CONFERENCE

Fonte: Unimercatorum.