Mediation to Enforce Labour Rights: How Far Can the European Model for ADR be Beneficial on Employment Disputes
The globalized scenario has an inherent ambition to melt different cultures, and to pursue an increasing mutual respect amongst different people. The wider recognition of labour rights, together with the combination of economies, social models, religious cultures, leads nevertheless to an increasingly litigious society wherein labour law plays a major influence1 . Alternative Dispute Resulution (ADR) recall a set of procedural tools introduced to help the judiciary system to make (also) labour rights more speedly and easly recognized, and thus implemented. After a short overview on the ADR context, this paper is meant to particularly investigate weather mediation – as a specific ADR track – represents a way to move forward in labor law, and weather the European legal frame – as nowadays in force – is applicable to any work relations.
