March 14, 2025
By Dr. Alice Dejean de la Bâtie The case Bodson et al. v. Belgium, handed down by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 16 January 2025, raises several fundamental questions: The legal qualification of the offence of malicious obstruction, the repression of (organised) collective mobilisation, and the leeway given to states in restricting […]
January 21, 2025
By Gaia Zanotti While Art.11 of the European Convention of Human Rights (‘ECHR’) protects the right to “form and join trade unions for the protection of [one’s] interests,” it does not explicitly address the tools trade unions may employ, like collective bargaining and collective action, including strikes. The status of the right to strike has […]
February 06, 2024
by Ignatius Yordan Nugraha Civil servants are constitutionally prohibited from striking in Germany. This general prohibition also affects State school teachers who have a civil servant status. On 14 December 2023, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in Humpert and Others v Germany that such a prohibition did not […]