Social rights: 252 violations in 41 countries
The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) published on 22 January its annual conclusions for 2014 showing 252 violations of the European Social Charter – a counterpart to the European Convention on Human Rights in the social and economic field – across 41 Council of Europe member states.
The ECSR adopted 725 conclusions on the articles of the Charter relating to labour rights: the right to just conditions of work (Article 2), the right to fair remuneration (Article 4), the right to organise (Article 5), the right to collective bargaining (Article 6), the right to information and consultation (Article 21) also in collective redundancy procedures (Article 29), the right to take part in the determination and improvement of working conditions (Article 22), the right to dignity at work (Article 26) and the right of workers’ representatives to protection in the undertaking (Article 28).
