REGES-FORUM Forum pour la régulation de l’Europe Sociale 

in cooperation with the Social Law Unit – University of Antwerp and with the support of the ILO

PROGRAMME

09.30 – 09.50  :  Welcome

Scientific activities with regard to the decent work issue within the REGES-FORUM (inter alia,  briefing of  the meeting of 30 October 2009 in Paris)

Ø  speaker: M. Giraudy, President REGES-FORUM

Morning   :     Chairman G. Casale

09.50 – 10.10             

Global Justice – human dignity – decent work

Ø  speaker: A. Herwig, University of Antwerp

10.10 – 10.30             

Decent work: genesis, definition, scope, connection

with the ILO Conventions…

the Century Project, International Institute for

Labour Studies,  ILO

10.30 – 10.50             

Practical application of the decent work agenda  (including

examples of the decent work country programmes)

Bureau of Programming and Management, ILO

Q&R

Lunch

“Decent work within an international and European legal framework”

Workshop

 Mardi 15 décembre 2009

Lieu : ILO, Geneva

Afternoon                   Chairman J.C. Javillier

13.30 – 13.50             Decent work and  social competition law

Ø  speaker: M. Rigaux, University of Antwerp

13.50 – 14.10              Some remarks about the Decent Work Concept from a Belgian (legal) point of view

Ø  speaker: K. Reyniers, University of Antwerp

14.10 – 14.30              The issue of decent work within subcontracting pyramids

Ø  speaker : J. Buelens, University of Antwerp

14.30 – 14.50             Q&A

14.50 – 16.00              Debate and conclusions

                                    for instance with regard to the following questions

                                    - What is the meaning of ‘decent’ in a European context? Can precariousness simply be equated with ‘indecent’?

                                    - Given the fact that the EU chiefly has a hard law tradition is the DWA an adequate instrument?

Ø  introduction by F. Camas Roda, University of Gerona, and R. de Quenaudon, University of Strasbourg

16.00                           End

15/12/2009

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