Rights and principles: the contribution of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to social policy - is the right to paid leave a general principle of Union law that can be invoked against a private employer?
Keywords:
European Union; fundamental social rights; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; horizontal invocability of the Directives.Abstract
This paper intends to leave a small note about the changing times that the CJEU is trying to print: has the time come for fundamental social rights, to leave the world of shadows? Did the Luxembourg court understand that if the Directives that implement them do not have a direct horizontal effect, the effectiveness of those rights may be compromised in the context of the disputes that the internal courts are called upon to settle? While it is true that without the effectiveness of these rights, it is not possible to build a true common code for Europeans, this brief statement aims to respond to this concern, which is to discover whether social rights can finally enjoy an equal status vis-à-vis other fundamental rights. To this end, there will be a short journey through the most impactful jurisprudence of the CJEU in the social domain.
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