We can see how law and economics cooperate also in labour law. If we would like to take all the advantages the globalisation can offer us, than the labour law needs to be more flexible.
Market is flexible when everyone can adjust and response to different changes. Flexibility does not mean, that the workers can be easily fired, it means that workers and employers act flexible. In flexicurity workers can easily find new jobs, employers can easily replace workers, and are flexible in organization of working hours and work. Because of flexibility nowadays we can find a lot of atypical work (temporary work, casual work, part-time work, contract for service, copyright contract, student work, self-employment). In that sort of work workers are not subordinate. Very big problem nowadays is also precarious work.
The problem is that labour market is not flexible enough or that is concentrating on security too mouch. In flexicurity we are attempting to find balance between flexibility and security. To find that balance we can help ourselves with good examples from foreign country such as Denmark (especially in their active employment policy and how their trade union works).
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