The research focuses different forms of employment and work in Slovenia. A statistical analysis of the presence of different forms of work and employment is presented, which is evaluated from the perspective of the concept of social responsibility and decent work.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1540165316The contribution focuses on the Revised European Social Charter. The reporting system and the collective complaints procedure (two complementary mechanisms under wich the European Committee of Social Rights monitors compilance with the Charter) should give strength and effectiveness to the Charter by demanding from the State to respect the rights enshrined in the Charter. The impact of the Charter on the actual implementation of fundamental social rights in practice can also be strengthened by national courts giving the Charter relevance in their judicial procedures - by reffering to Charter's provisions and applying them when deciding the case. Slovenian courts, when dealing with labour or social issues, quite often refer to the Revised European Social Charter in the reasoning of their decisions. Short overview of these judgements and some basic findings are presented in this contribution on the basis of the analysis of the publicly accessiable databases of the case-law in Slovenia.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 5029221This article analyses the case of Slovenia, a post-socialist state with a notable history of state social interventions and institutionalised care. Nowadays, however, flexibilisation rules the labour market, and activation is the primary social policy measure, according to which benefits become conditioned upon inclusion into paid labour, and the state only intervenes in cases of severe poverty. In recent years, alongside changes in social policy, the state has introduced measures against illicit work, including work in private households. The demand for care work is growing, while it is increasingly being relegated to the private domain. Drawing on interviews with informal care workers, we delineate methodological concerns related to conducting qualitative research, arguing that the individualisation of care work has brought increased state control and, in consequence, fear among and marginalisation of care workers. Introducing the concept of chains of trust, the article concludes that the structural effect of the individualisation of care is seclusion behind the four walls of private households, where trust becomes the only currency.
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